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1. | INTRODUCTION |
1.1. | Dependent elderly as percentage of total population |
1.1. | Potential use of packages in exploiting and mimicking human senses. |
1.1. | Types of packaging |
1.1.1. | Demographic timebomb |
1.2. | Objectives of the EC Sustainpack project |
1.2. | Why progress is now much faster |
1.2.1. | Using the nine human senses |
1.2.2. | AstraZeneca Diprivan chipless RFID |
1.3. | Paper food package with printed touch sensor and animated display with sound playback produced under the Sustainpack project. |
1.3. | Why basic hardware platforms are essential |
1.3.1. | Argument for printing standard circuits |
1.3.2. | Touch and hearing |
1.3.3. | Smell |
1.4. | Diprivan® TCI tag construction |
1.4. | Why e-packaging has been slow to appear |
1.4.1. | Inadequate market research |
1.4.2. | Lack of market pull |
1.4.3. | Wrong priorities by developers - engineering led design |
1.4.4. | Inadequate cost reduction |
1.4.5. | Odd inventions not economy of scale/hardware platforms |
1.4.6. | Failure to solve technical problems |
1.4.7. | Legal constraints |
1.5. | Tagged syringe and Diprifusor™ |
1.6. | Learning from experience with the silicon chip |
1.7. | How printed standard platforms will progress |
1.8. | Progress towards labels with many components printed on top of each other to provide multiple functionality such as the detergent that has sound and a winking logo. |
1.9. | Interactive paper |
1.10. | Touch-sensor pads and wiring printed in interactive paper |
1.11. | Experimental set up and demonstration |
1.12. | Pressure sensitive film used in smart blisterpack by Plastic Electronic |
1.13. | Some successes with packaging electronics that does not employ transistors |
1.14. | Fully printed passive RFID, HurraFussball card bottom right |
1.15. | Talking/ recording circuit as used in pizza boxes and gift cards, including Hallmark |
1.16. | Talking circuit as used in pizza boxes and gift cards |
1.17. | Hybrid devices used in packages, where the use of non-printing processes, silicon chips and some conventional components limits their success due to price, weight and size. |
1.18. | Remotely powered displays that could be used in packaging but a fully printed construction for the power supply not just the display is desirable for high volume use |
1.19. | Box of cereal with moving colour displays as envisaged in "Minority Report" |
2. | THE NEED FOR ELECTRONICS IN PACKAGING |
2.1. | Safety |
2.1. | CDT arguments for printed OLEDs |
2.2. | Interactive shelf-package concept |
2.2. | Security and reducing crime |
2.3. | Uniqueness/ product differentiation |
2.3. | Concept of a disposable pack that can project a moving colour image onto a wall. |
2.4. | Speaking pot noodle that detects the hot water being applied and then monitors temperature or time. |
2.4. | Convenience |
2.5. | Leveraging the brand with extra functions, brand enhancement |
2.5. | Toppan Forms smart shop |
2.6. | Concept of a valuable packaging tearoff. |
2.6. | Merchandising and increasing sales |
2.6.2. | Attracting attention |
2.6.3. | Rewards |
2.7. | Entertainment |
2.8. | Error Prevention |
2.9. | Environmental aspects of disposal |
2.10. | Environmental quality control within the package |
2.11. | Quality Assurance |
2.12. | Consumer feedback |
2.13. | Removing tedious procedures |
2.14. | Cost reduction, efficiency and automated data collection |
3. | THE MAGIC THAT IS BECOMING POSSIBLE |
3.1. | New printed electronics products from Toppan Forms |
3.1. | Card with no battery, the image being illuminated by RF power from an RFID reader |
3.2. | Flashing flexible OLED display at point of purchase POP |
3.2. | Solar bags |
3.3. | Smart substrates |
3.3. | Light emitting business card with images that light up sequentially |
3.4. | Solar powered photo stand |
3.4. | Transparent and invisible electronics |
3.5. | Tightly rollable electronics |
3.5. | Flat sheet type of charger that is flexible |
3.5.1. | Fault tolerant electronics |
3.6. | OLED posters powered by flexible photovoltaics |
3.6. | Stretchable and morphing electronics |
3.7. | Edible electronics |
3.7. | Light emitting display with audio all powered by ambient light |
3.8. | Poster with electrophoretic display counting down to the arrival date of Beaujolais Nouveau. |
3.8. | Electronics as art |
3.9. | Origami electronics |
3.9. | Poster combining flashing LED with Toppan Forms Audio PaperTM sound |
3.10. | Battery charging brief case with organic flexible photovoltaic panel |
3.10. | The package becomes the delivery mechanism |
3.11. | Electronic release, dispensing and consumer information |
3.11. | Neuber's solar bag |
3.12. | Lamborghini solar bag |
3.13. | Mascotte DSSC solar bag |
3.14. | Odersun solar bag |
3.15. | Transparent electronics - a new packaging paradigm |
3.16. | Stretchable electronics developed at Cambridge University UK |
3.17. | Stretchable mesh of transistors connected by elastic conductors that were made at the University of Tokyo. |
3.18. | Reshaped electronics developed at Cambridge University UK. |
3.19. | Origami electronics |
3.20. | eFlow nebuliser as used by AstraZeneca - a candidate for cost reduction to the point where it is disposable and comes with the drug inside. |
4. | BASIC HARDWARE PLATFORMS NEEDED BY THE MARKET |
4.1. | Ink in Motion |
4.1. | Winking image label |
4.2. | Talking label |
4.2. | Voice recording gift tag by Talking Tags |
4.3. | Concept of a drug container that prompts |
4.3. | Recording talking label |
4.4. | Scrolling text label |
4.4. | Concept of a voice recording gift pack. |
4.5. | Manually activated disposable paper timer for packaging |
4.5. | Timer |
4.6. | Self adjusting use by date |
4.6. | Concept of an electronic package that has a blinking display and various safety sensors. |
4.7. | Concept of packaging preventing a health risk |
4.7. | Other sensing electronics |
4.8. | Moving color picture label |
4.8. | Electronic printed pain relief patch electronically delivering painkiller |
4.9. | Drug and cosmetic delivery system |
4.10. | Ultra low cost printed RFID/EAS label |
5. | PRECURSORS OF IMPENDING E-PACKAGING CAPABILITIES |
5.1. | Examples of electronic devices coming down market with packaging a next possibility |
5.1. | Coming down market |
5.2. | T-Ink and all the senses |
6. | EXAMPLES OF E-PACKAGING |
6.1. | Scrolling display on Kent cigarettes |
6.1. | Examples of e-packaging and related uses with human interface |
6.1. | Bioett first customers |
6.1.1. | Printed electronics magazine cover - Blue Spark, NTERA, CalPoly, SiCal, Canvas and Ricoh |
6.1.2. | Printed electronic greeting cards - Tigerprint, Nano ePrint, and Novalia |
6.1.3. | Cigarettes scrolling display - Kent |
6.1.4. | Talking pill compliance kit - MeadWestvaco |
6.1.5. | Monochrome reprogrammable phone decoration - Hitachi |
6.1.6. | Color reprogrammable phone decoration - Hewlett Packard and Kent Display |
6.1.7. | Rum winking segments - Coyopa |
6.1.8. | Talking pizza boxes - National Football League and Mangia Media |
6.1.9. | Batteries with integral battery tester - Duracell |
6.1.10. | Point of Sale Material - News Corporation and T-Ink |
6.1.11. | Place mats - McDonalds |
6.1.12. | Animation and sound - Westpoint Stevens |
6.1.13. | Board games become animated - Hasbro and Character Visions |
6.1.14. | Interactive tablecloth - Hallmark |
6.1.15. | Compliance monitoring blisterpack - National Institutes of Health/Fisher Scientific |
6.1.16. | Compliance monitoring blisterpack laminate - Novartis/Compliers Group/DCM |
6.1.17. | Smart blisterpack dispenser - Bang & Olufsen Medicom |
6.1.18. | Winking sign - ACREO |
6.1.19. | Compliance monitoring plastic bottle - Aardex |
6.1.20. | Talking medicine - CVS and other US pharmacies |
6.1.21. | Talking prizes - Coca-Cola |
6.1.22. | Beer package game - VTT Technology |
6.1.23. | Electronic cosmetic pack - Procter and Gamble |
6.1.24. | Cookie heater pack - T-Ink |
6.2. | Reprogrammable electrophoretic decoration on Hitachi mobile phones only needs power when being changed |
6.2. | Examples of e-packaging without human interface |
6.2.1. | Time temperature label - Findus Bioett |
6.2.2. | Anti-theft - Wal-Mart/Tyco ADT |
6.2.3. | Time temperature recorders - Healthcare shippers/KSW Microtec |
6.2.4. | Fly seeking spray - Reckitt Benkiser |
6.2.5. | RFID for tracking - Tesco & Metro/Alien Technology |
6.2.6. | Blisterpack with electronic feedback buttons - Kuopio University Hospital |
6.2.7. | Trizivir - AstraZeneca |
6.2.8. | Oxycontin - Purdue Pharma |
6.2.9. | Viagra - Pfizer |
6.2.10. | Theft detection - Swedish Postal Service and Deutsche Post |
6.2.11. | Blood - Massachusetts General Hospital |
6.2.12. | Real time locating systems - Jackson Healthcare Hospitals/Awarepoint |
6.3. | Reprogrammable color display on phone |
6.4. | Duracell batteries/Avery Dennison tester |
6.5. | National Institutes of Health/Fisher Scientific compliance monitoring blisterpack for Azithromycin trials, made by Information Mediary |
6.6. | Compliers Group/ DCM compliance monitoring blisterpack overlay with RFID |
6.7. | Bang & Olufsen Medicom compliance monitoring dispenser. |
6.8. | Aardex electronic plastic bottle for drug tablets |
6.9. | Pill bottle with smart label (printed prescription label not shown) |
6.10. | ScripTalk speaker |
6.11. | VTT Technology beer package game |
6.12. | Electrostatic cosmetic spray |
6.13. | The ionisation technology used for the application of the foundation is illustrated below. |
6.14. | Bioett biosensor TTR |
6.15. | Electrostatic insect-seeking fly spray in use |
6.16. | Can of insect-seeking fly spray |
6.17. | Knockdown efficiency of SmartSeeker® |
6.18. | Compliance monitoring blisterpack with electronic feedback |
6.19. | Tamper recording postal package |
6.20. | Paling Risk Scale for major transfusion hazards |
6.21. | SHOT project: cumulative data 1996 to 2001 |
6.22. | Increasing errors within hospitals |
6.23. | Safe transfusion: Processes not just product |
6.24. | Automated warning generated when a possible mis-match of blood and patient occurs |
6.25. | RFID on blood container, next to interrogator |
6.26. | Blood labelled with RFID chip |
7. | THE TOOLKIT OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS FOR E-PACKAGING |
7.1. | Challenges of traditional components |
7.1. | Evolution of printed electronics geometry |
7.1. | Comparison between OLEDs and E-Ink of various parameters |
7.2. | Advantages and disadvantages of some options for supplying electricity to small devices |
7.2. | Multilayer interconnect development at Holst Research Centre |
7.2. | Printed and potentially printed electronics |
7.2.1. | Successes so far |
7.2.2. | Materials employed |
7.2.3. | Printing technology employed |
7.2.4. | Multiple film then components printed on top of each other |
7.3. | Paper vs plastic substrates vs direct printing onto packaging |
7.3. | TFT Structure Completely by Selective Area ALD |
7.3. | Comparison of flexible photovoltaics technologies suitable for brand enhancement |
7.3.1. | Paper vs plastic substrates |
7.3.2. | Electronic displays that can be printed on any surface |
7.4. | Transistors and memory inorganic |
7.4. | Categories of organic semiconductor with examples and a picture of a Plastic Logic printed organic transistor |
7.4. | Printed and thin film battery product and specification comparison |
7.4.1. | Nanosilicon ink |
7.4.2. | Zinc oxide based ink |
7.5. | Transistors and memory organic |
7.5. | The principle behind E-Ink's technology |
7.5. | Printed battery materials comparison |
7.6. | The half cell and overall chemical reactions that occur in a Zn/MnO2 battery |
7.6. | Electrophoretic display on Esquire magazine October 2008 |
7.6. | Displays |
7.6.1. | Electrophoretic |
7.6.2. | Thermochromic |
7.6.3. | Electrochromic |
7.6.4. | Printed LCD |
7.6.5. | OLED |
7.6.6. | Electrowetting |
7.7. | Energy harvesting for packaging |
7.7. | Electrophoretic display on pricing label |
7.7. | Comparison of the three types of capacitor when storing one kilojoule of energy. |
7.7.2. | Photovoltaics |
7.7.3. | Other |
7.8. | Batteries |
7.8. | Electrophoretic display on key fob |
7.8. | Examples of energy density figures for batteries, supercapacitors and other energy sources |
7.8.2. | Single use laminar batteries |
7.8.3. | Rechargeable laminar batteries |
7.8.4. | New shapes - laminar and flexible batteries |
7.9. | Transparent batteries and photovoltaics - NEC, Waseda University, AIST |
7.9. | Shelf edge labels using electrophoretic displays |
7.9. | Where supercapacitors fit in |
7.10. | Color electrophoretics by Fujitsu |
7.10. | Other important flexible components now available |
7.10.1. | Capacitors and supercapacitors |
7.10.2. | Applications for supercapacitors |
7.10.3. | Resistors |
7.10.4. | Conductive patterns for antennas, identification, keyboards etc. |
7.10.5. | Programming at manufacturer, purchaser or end user |
7.11. | New types of component - thin and flexible |
7.11. | Game in secondary packaging by VTT Technology using thermochromic display |
7.11.1. | Memristors |
7.11.2. | Metamaterials |
7.11.3. | Thin film lasers, supercabatteries, fuel cells |
7.12. | ACREO PEDOT PSS electrochromic blue display with limited bistable capability. A different message appears when the reverse nine volts is applied. |
7.13. | Aveso display before the 1.5 volts bias is applied |
7.14. | Aveso display after the 1.5 volts bias is applied |
7.15. | How traditional electrochromic ink works |
7.16. | How Commotion proprietary inks work |
7.17. | Color LCD by photo alignment |
7.18. | Photo alignment of LCD |
7.19. | The HKUST optical rewriting |
7.20. | Color printable flexible LCD |
7.21. | Basic structure of an OLED |
7.22. | Process flow in manufacture of OLEDs |
7.23. | A Cambridge Display Technology colour OLED display |
7.24. | Comparison of different printing techniques for OLED frontplanes, as evaluated by Seiko Epson |
7.25. | Droplet driven electrowetting displays from adt, Germany |
7.26. | Energy harvesting challenges |
7.27. | Rapid progress in the capabilities of small electronic devices and their photovoltaic energy harvesting contrasted with more modest progress in improving the batteries they employ |
7.28. | Power in use vs duty cycle for portable and mobile devices showing zones of use of single use vs rechargeable batteries |
7.29. | Enfucell SoftBattery™ |
7.30. | Blue Spark laminar battery |
7.31. | Blue Spark battery printing machine |
7.32. | Power Paper battery cross section |
7.33. | Power paper battery and skin patch |
7.34. | Power Paper battery printing machine |
7.35. | Smart patches |
7.36. | Volumetric energy density vs gravimetric energy density for rechargeable batteries |
7.37. | Laminar lithium ion battery |
7.38. | Typical active RFID tag showing the problematic coin cells |
7.39. | Construction of a lithium rechargeable laminar battery |
7.40. | Reel to reel construction of rechargeable laminar lithium batteries |
7.41. | Infinite Power Solutions laminar lithium battery |
7.42. | Ultra thin lithium rechargeable battery |
7.43. | Construction of a thin-film battery |
7.44. | Battery assisted passive RFID label with rechargeable thin film lithium battery recording time-temperature profile of food, blood etc in transit |
7.45. | Flexible battery made of nanotube ink |
7.46. | Transparent flexible photovoltaics |
7.47. | Flexible battery that charges in one minute |
7.48. | E-labels with capacitor and no battery |
7.49. | Energy density vs power density for storage devices |
7.50. | Laminar supercapacitor one millimeter thick |
7.51. | Mobile phone modified to give much brighter flash thanks to supercapacitor outlined in red |
7.52. | Flexographically printed carbon resistors with silver interconnects |
7.53. | Actuator/ push button - two printed patterns folded together |
7.54. | Screen printed interconnects and actuator connects. |
7.55. | Other printed conductor pattern demonstrators |
7.56. | Printchenologics gaming card showing conductive pattern, and AirCode touch |
7.57. | Copper ink particles |
7.58. | Programmability of potential e-labels through the value chain |
7.59. | Memristor |
7.60. | Microwave metamaterial |
8. | SUPPLIER AND DEVELOPER PROFILES |
8.1. | ACREO, Sweden |
8.1. | Distribution and primary focus of 2250 developers of printed and potentially printed electronics. Many are developing a variety of printed components, their machinery or their materials. |
8.2. | Paper roulette card with simulated spinning wheel for game |
8.2. | BASF, Germany |
8.3. | Blue Spark Technologies, USA |
8.3. | ACREO development process |
8.4. | ACREO Technology |
8.4. | CapXX, Australia |
8.5. | Cymbet, USA |
8.5. | ACREO microphones |
8.6. | ACREO sensors |
8.6. | DSM Innovation, Netherlands |
8.7. | E-Ink |
8.7. | ACREO production |
8.8. | ACREO focus on e-packaging |
8.8. | Enfucell, Finland |
8.9. | Excellatron, USA |
8.9. | Demonstrator organic transistor |
8.10. | The Cymbet EnerChip™ |
8.10. | Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems (ENAS), Germany |
8.11. | Front Edge Technology, USA |
8.11. | Thin-film solid-state batteries by Excellatron |
8.12. | Ultra low cost printed battery |
8.12. | Holst Centre, Netherlands |
8.13. | Infinite Power Solutions USA |
8.13. | NanoEnergy® powering a blue LED |
8.14. | DSP= digital signal processing. |
8.14. | Infratab, USA |
8.15. | Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (A*Star), Singapore |
8.15. | New time temperature recording label from Infratab |
8.16. | Conventional and integrated OPV |
8.16. | Konarka, USA |
8.17. | Kovio, USA |
8.17. | NTERA electrochromic display on flexible film |
8.18. | New Planar Energy Devices high capacity laminar battery |
8.18. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA |
8.19. | Mitsubishi, Japan |
8.19. | PolyIC organic transistor circuits |
8.20. | Prelonic produces integrated and printed electronic modules |
8.20. | Nano ePrint, UK |
8.21. | NanoGram, USA |
8.21. | Prelonic Translator Module |
8.22. | Prelonic printed battery tester |
8.22. | National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL, USA |
8.23. | NEC, Japan |
8.23. | Prelonic technologies GmbH Kwizzcard |
8.24. | Flexion ™ |
8.24. | New University of Lisbon, Portugal |
8.25. | Novalia, UK |
8.25. | Waseda founder |
8.26. | NTERA, USA |
8.27. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA |
8.28. | Panasonic, Japan |
8.29. | Planar Energy, USA |
8.30. | Plextronics, USA |
8.31. | PolyIC, Germany |
8.32. | Power Paper, Israel |
8.33. | Prelonic Technologies, Austria |
8.34. | Printechnologics, Germany |
8.35. | PST Sensor, South Africa |
8.36. | Solarmer, USA |
8.37. | Solicore, USA |
8.38. | Soligie, USA |
8.39. | Sony, Japan |
8.40. | T-Ink |
8.41. | Waseda University, Japan |
9. | MARKET FORECASTS 2012-2022 |
9.1. | Ultimate market potential |
9.1. | Cost per square centimeter and functionality |
9.1. | Consumer goods market for e-packaging 2012-2022, in millions of units |
9.2. | Total market for e-packaging 2012-2022 in millions of units |
9.2. | Consumer goods market for e-packaging devices in numbers billion 2012-2022 |
9.2. | E-packaging market 2012-2022 |
9.3. | Beyond brand enhancement |
9.3. | Total market for e-packaging 2012-2022 in billions of units by market sector |
9.3. | Global market for electronic smart packaging based on EAS or RFID in billions of units 2012-2022 |
9.4. | Split of small device battery market in 2011 by type, giving number, unit value, total value |
9.4. | Global market for electronic smart packaging based on EAS and RFID in billions of units 2012-2022 |
9.4. | Printed electronics market |
9.5. | Battery market for small devices |
9.5. | Market for printed and potentially printed electronics in 2011 |
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS | |
APPENDIX 1: GLOSSARY | |
APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTANCY | |
TABLES | |
FIGURES |
Pages | 310 |
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Tables | 15 |
Figures | 170 |
Companies | 40+ |
Forecasts to | 2022 |