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OLED lighting is an emerging solid-state lighting technology. It potentially provides a route into the large and growing global lighting market. It however faces a critical differentiation challenge vis-à-vis incumbents such as inorganic LED lighting. IDTechEx has assessed the technology and markets for OLED technology in the lighting sector. We find that the market will be slow to take off until 2019/2020 but will reach 2.5 billion USD in 2027.

E-textiles (electronic textiles) involve the integration of electronic components into or onto textiles. This report provides a comprehensive review of all of the main techniques being used and developed today, including over 100 example companies and interviews from more than 25 key players. The report concludes that the e-textile market will approach $5bn in product revenue by 2027.

Sensors that are printed on flexible substrates represent a growing market. Although the biggest segment — blood glucose test strips — is currently shrinking, the next generation of printed sensors will enable other applications, from human machine interfaces to environmental sensing. IDTechEx predicts the market for fully printed sensors will reach $7.6 billion by 2027.

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important technological developments of this century. It forms a key part of the dream, formulated decades ago, of computing disappearing into the fabric of society. It also addresses, in a particularly elegant manner, the dream of Edison in 1880 that electricity should be made where it is needed. SE is often biomimetic - it usefully imitates nature in ways not previously feasible. It is a rapidly growing multi-billion dollar business.

OLED displays will continue gaining market share against LCD technology. The next evolution is plastic displays and flexible displays. These two new categories together will make a $18bn market within the next five years. Glass-based displays will remain an important technology, especially in TV applications where scale-up and cost reduction are still big challenges. This report gives a detailed analysis of the technology and forecasts by market segment and display type.

Thin, printed and/or flexible battery (or batteries with novel form factors) are back on the agenda thanks to the rise of Internet of Things, wearables and environmental sensors. These applications require new features and battery designs that traditional battery technologies simply cannot provide. This has opened the door to innovation and added a new dimension to the global competition between battery suppliers. IDTechEx predicts that this market will grow to become a $471m industry in 2026 from a small market base today.

This report focuses on the toolkit of technologies that enable the integration of printed and flexible components and devices within vehicles. Benefits to the automotive industry will include versatility in design and form factor, reduced size, weight and complexity of components, also translating into lower cost structures.

The first 3D printed electronics solutions recently came to market and, off the back of 3D printing, are likely to receive considerable media attention over the coming year. This report identifies players in PCB prototyping and antenna manufacture as the hottest players in this space today. 3D printed electronics will be a multibillion dollar industry by 2025.

This unique report addresses the applications and technologies of printing, curing and key integration equipment that is enabling printed electronics. The report assesses the performance of each printing and curing technology type.

This report reveals the global demand for electronic smart packaging devices is currently at a tipping point and will grow rapidly to over $1.45 billion within 10 years. The electronic packaging (e-packaging) market will remain primarily in consumer packaged goods CPG reaching 14.5 billion units that have electronic functionality within a decade.

The market for transparent conductive films and materials has been rapidly changing. This continuing transformation is taking place at all levels: technologies, applications and suppliers. In this report we provide the most comprehensive and authoritative view of this industry.

Stretchable electronics is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of components. This traditionally academic area is beginning to move beyond the lab into early commercial markets. This report provides you with everything you need to know, with coverage of the entire value chain from materials and components through to emerging products, concluding that the market for stretchable electronic materials and components will be almost $800m by 2028.

Poisonous materials are arriving in many electronic and electrical devices and structures. Mostly, there is no listing of them, assessment of risks, description of alternatives. For the first time this report looks at the toxicity and likely prevalence of the burgeoning number of materials and devices of concern, making recommendations concerning better legal constraints. It reveals many little known alternatives that are safer in manufacture, use, abuse and disposal.

This report provides the most comprehensive and authoritative view of the 2370 tpa conductive inks and paste market, giving detailed ten-year market forecasts segmented by application and material type. The market forecasts are given in tonnage and value at the ink level.

This report covers the technologies used and the main applications in 3D printing of metals, with an assessment of commercially available printers and materials. Analysis showing the state of the market, market growth drivers and restraints, and forecast printer and materials revenue is provided. 3D printing of metals is estimated to become a $12 billion market by the year 2028.

This report gives a detailed introduction on the status of perovskite solar cells both in the technology perspective and business aspect. Technology benchmarking and market analysis are performed to analyse the potential of perovskite solar cells in a number of applications such as utility, BIPV, smart window, outdoor furniture, etc. By 2028 the market is expected to reach over $500 million.

This research report from IDTechEx gives an in-depth review of the issues relating to high barrier films for flexible electronics, as well as forecasts for display, lighting and photovoltaic technologies, in order to understand the influence that the development of barriers will have on the mass deployment and adoption of flexible electronics and photovoltaics.

Smart Glass is electrically active glass mainly for use in automotive, architectural and avionic windows, with demand growing to $1.1 billion in ten years. It is typically for electronic shading in place of physical blinds, or a semi-transparent PV window to generate electricity locally. As the only comprehensive report covering the technologies and markets, it will assist all in the value chain including building and vehicle designers, sellers and users.

This report is the most comprehensive overview of the markets, players and technologies in the haptics space. Whilst OEMs shift between ERM motors and LRAs in the mass market, many new haptics technologies have been developed and begin to find their niches. Whilst the total market climbs beyond $3 billion by 2028, the report finds that the emerging sector will increasingly shine through, generating $600m of new revenue annually by 2028.

This report covers the materials used in 3D printing including polymers, metals and ceramics, and their main applications. Analysis showing the state of the market, market growth drivers and restraints, and forecast printer and materials revenue is provided. The market for 3D printing materials is estimated to be worth $16 billion by the year 2028.

Digital transformation is the application of digital technology to fundamentally impact all aspects of our society. As it pertains to an enterprise, digital transformation is the reinvention of a business or organization through the use of digital technology in order to improve the way it performs and serves its clients.

The general RFID market has seen substantial growth over the last few years, with successful public offerings and rapid growth in terms of the number of RFID tags sold. Vendors are now exploring allied technologies with RFID sensors at the forefront of this. This has been enabled thanks to new chipsets, at both HF(NFC) and UHF (RAIN) which are dedicated to support sensor platforms and therefore make RFID sensors simpler to make and lower cost in addition to the increasing maturity and wider scale adoption of RFID reader infrastructure. Additionally, new technologies from printed sensors and flexible batteries to bio sensing films meet unmet needs and provide differentiation.

Sensors continue to drive the core value proposition behind many wearable devices. This report covers 21 key types of wearable sensor (including IMUs, OHRM, depth & imaging, chemical sensors, temperature sensors, microphones, GPS and more) describing the technology behind them, their implementation in wearable devices, the key trends in each industry and details of over 115 key players in the industry. The market will reach over $5bn for sensor hardware alone in 2028.

Millions of devices that had batteries are now redesigned to avoid them, unlocking new business. This new 280+ page report reveals latest ways of eliminating batteries to permit mass deployment of IOT, electric vehicles with "perpetual" speed and almost unlimited life and much more. See relevance and technology for applications from sensors to the energy grid and ships.

Neuroprosthetics is a growing field that has the potential to re-engineer a patient's lost sense of sight, sound, and even touch. Projected to reach $18 billion by 2028, this report details the emerging technologies and steps that are being taken by multiple companies working to bring these innovative devices from the bench to the bedside.

Electrically Conductive Adhesives (also known as conductive epoxies) are used to form interconnects in a broad range of products and industries. Trends such as increasing numbers of LEDs and sensors, curved and flexible displays in more products, in-mould electronics, and thin film photovoltaics are placing more stringent requirements on ECAs and driving a $3.3 billion market by 2026.

This report gives an assessment of the main applications of colloidal quantum dots in display, lighting, photovoltaic, sensors and life science. With 10 year market forecasts, the report includes a detailed industry analysis of quantum dots in both LCD and QLED displays.

We identify 37 families of new and rapidly-evolving electronic and electric device, spanning nano to very large devices. Most chemical and material companies wish to de-risk their investment by finding common formulations across this new business that has a potential of over $50 billion for them. Indeed, the biggest markets for new and reinvented electrical and electronic devices may get commoditised first or collapse suddenly, leaving the materials suppliers high and dry. Read this report to avoid such a fate.