Printable Electronics Market Outlook: An Applications-Based Assessment

NanoMarkets will be releasing a new report titled, “Printable Electronics Market Outlook: An Applications-Based Assessment,”

which will analyze and forecast all the applications in which printable electronics (PE) is being used or is likely to be used in the next eight years. It is based on NanoMarkets ongoing primary and secondary research in this rapidly growing area and will be essential reading to materials and equipment firms, as well as technology developers and investors considering their future in this rapidly emerging sector.

Printed Electronics is attracting serious and growing attention from VCs and leading firms in the materials, specialty chem., semiconductor, consumer electronics and other sectors. New firms are springing up. Substantial investments are being made by both strategic investors and VCs. Factories are being built. And the first products are appearing.

NanoMarkets has been analyzing and forecasting the PE sector since the sector’s birth. We firmly believe that within the next couple of years PE will become an industry addressing huge applications markets with sophisticated products, much as the semiconductor industry does now. However, we have also concluded that the opportunities in this sector will vary considerably from application to application.

Within each application, we see the most valuable opportunities arising in different parts of the supply chain. For some applications the best opportunities lie in materials. In others it’s the basic devices; TFTs, memories, OLEDs. In yet others, the money, we believe, will be made at the applications level; in specific RFID, display, or photovoltaic products for example.

This report tracks all the applications to which printed electronics is being applied and shows where the opportunities lie. It also shows how opportunities in PE are likely to shift over time as improved manufacturing equipment and materials become available. Some firms, long committed to printing as a manufacturing technology, have found current functional printing technology hard to scale up to full production. How and when will that change? This is just one of the many questions that this report answers.

Other questions that this report tackles: What will be the impact on PE applications of the new inorganic conductive inks beginning to make it to the market? What are the likely timetables in each of the applications areas considered for products to shift to the more sophisticated and useful? And how are business models in each application likely to change over time?