Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDTechEx Ltd
Published: October 2009
Product Code: R449-115Description This report focuses on the requirements and achievements to date on the topic of flexible transparent conductors, where high transparency and high conductivity are required. Worldwide research and design efforts are presented, both from research institutes and companies that are developing the necessary materials and processes. Several technical solutions available are compared, and forecasts are given for the next 10 years.
Please note, the PDF Email From Publisher version of this report allows five users. Table of Contents - 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- 2. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS (TCF)
- 3. APPLICATIONS AND REQUIRED PROPERTIES OF TCFS
- 3.1. Electromagnetic shielding and Electrostatic coating
- 3.2. Displays & Lighting
- 3.2.1. LC Displays
- 3.2.2. EL Lamps and Displays
- 3.2.3. OLED Lighting and displays
- 3.2.4. Touch Screen Displays
- 3.3. Photovoltaics
- 3.3.1. Crystalline Silicon
- 3.3.2. Thin film and Organic PV
- 3.4. Security Applications
- 4. MAIN CRITERIA OF TCFS
- 4.1.2. Transparency
- 4.1.3. Conductivity
- 4.1.4. Flexibility
- 4.1.5. Cost
- 4.1.6. Other parameters
- 5. MATERIALS USED FOR TCFS
- 5.1.1. Doped oxide metals
- 5.1.2. ITO Challenges: Cost and availability
- 5.1.3. Organic Conductors
- 5.1.4. Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
- 6. MANUFACTURING OF TCFS
- 6.1. TCOs
- 6.1.1. Vacuum processes
- 6.1.2. Wet processes
- 6.1.3. Patterning of TCO layers
- 6.1.4. Recent developments: Printable ITO
- 6.2. Organic Materials
- 6.3. CNT and Graphene
- 7. COMPANIES
- 7.1. Agfa Orgacon
- 7.2. Cambrios Technologies Corp.
- 7.3. Canatu Ltd.
- 7.4. Cheil Industries
- 7.5. Chisso Corp.
- 7.6. Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd (DNP)
- 7.7. Dontech Inc.
- 7.8. Eikos - Production of Carbon Nanotube Invisicon Ink
- 7.9. Evaporated Coatings Inc.
- 7.10. Evonik
- 7.11. Fujifilm Ltd
- 7.12. Gunze Ltd
- 7.13. H.C. Starck Clevios
- 7.14. HelioSphera
- 7.15. Join Well Technology Company Ltd.
- 7.16. KPT Shanghai Keyan Phosphor Technology Co. Ltd.
- 7.17. LEE TAT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT LTD.
- 7.18. LG Chem
- 7.19. Mianyang Prochema Plastics Co., Ltd.
- 7.20. Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.
- 7.21. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- 7.22. Nicanti
- 7.23. Nitto Denko
- 7.24. Oike & CO., Ltd.
- 7.25. Panipol Ltd
- 7.26. Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe (RQMP)
- 7.27. Sheldahl
- 7.28. Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Inc.
- 7.29. Teijin Kasei America, Inc.
- 7.30. Top Nanosys
- 7.31. Toray
- 7.32. Toyobo
- 7.33. Unidym
- 7.34. University of Michigan
- 7.35. VisionTek Systems Ltd.
- 8. FORECASTS FOR TCF FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS 2010-2020
- 8.1. The potential significance of organic and printed inorganic electronics
- 8.2. Forecasts for flexible electronics 2010-2020
- 8.3. TCFs market size
- 9. REFERENCES
- APPENDIX 1: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTANCY
- TABLES
- 1.1. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020 US$ bn
- 4.1. TCF requirements for different applications
- 4.2. Table: Main criteria to assess for TCFs
- 4.3. Table: Comparison of TCF material of H.C. Starck and ITO films
- 8.1. Leading market drivers 2020
- 8.2. Market value (US$ billion) of flexible/conformal electronics 2010-2020
- 8.3. Total market value of flexible vs. rigid electronics 2010-2020 US$ billion
- 8.4. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020
- FIGURES
- 1.1. Flexible OLED fabricated using IMREs high barrier substrate and encapsulation technique
- 1.2. Flexible Solar Cell developed by Fraunhofer IPMS
- 1.3. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020 US$ bn
- 2.1. Conductivity of several materials.
- 3.1. Structure of a TFT-LCD
- 3.2. PolyDisplay's see through display
- 3.3. EL display for a car dashboard
- 3.4. Cross section of an EL display
- 3.5. Two types of OLED construction
- 3.6. Constructions of Inorganic PV cells
- 3.7. Materials investigated for Organic Photovoltaics
- 3.8. Flexible electronics
- 4.1. Relationship between resistance and transparency
- 4.2. Flex testing of ITO on foil
- 5.1. Cost of ITO and global ITO production
- 5.2. Global Indium Production in 2007
- 5.3. PEDOT:PSS conductivity development
- 5.4. Structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes
- 5.5. The chiral vector is represented by a pair of indices (n, m). T denotes the tube axis, and a1 and a2 are the unit vectors of graphene in real space.
- 6.1. Comparison of OLED performance. The top electrode made of printed ITO
- 7.1. Directly produced prepatterned films
- 7.2. CNT Ink Production Process
- 7.3. Target application areas of Eikos
- 7.4. Gunze's flexible display, presented early 2009
- 7.5. H.C. Stark
- 7.6. The owners of Nicanti
- 7.7. Nicanti Printaf project
- 7.8. TCF from Nitto Denko
- 7.9. TCF solutions from Panipol
- 7.10. VisionTek Systems TCF materials
- 8.1. Leading market drivers 2020
- 8.2. Market value (US$ billion) of flexible/conformal electronics 2009-2020
- 8.3. Total market value of flexible vs. rigid electronics 2010-2020 US$ billion
- 8.4. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020 US$ billion
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