NanoMarkets, a leading
industry analyst firm based here, has just released its newest report, "Opportunities
for Printed Silicon: 2009 to 2016." The report continues NanoMarkets' extensive
industry coverage of the printed electronics markets and provides eight-year
forecasts of printed silicon materials and devices used for photovoltaics, display
backplanes, and RFID tags, as well as other emerging applications. According
to NanoMarkets' analysts, revenues from printed silicon products will reach
around $1.8 billion in 2016.
This report is a companion to NanoMarkets' recent report, "Opportunities
for Nanosilicon: 2009 to 2016." Further details about the report are available
at www.nanomarkets.net. Executive summaries are available to members of the
press. The reports are available individually or as a set.
Key findings:
- The biggest opportunity will come from photovoltaics as printed
silicon offers the best of all worlds; good environmental stability
without the need for complex encapsulation, potentially very high
performance, and lowered costs through the use of high-throughput
printing. Printed nanosilicon PV panels will generate well over $1
billion in revenue by 2016.
- Printed silicon may also be the solution to the industry's growing
impatience with organic TFTs (OTFTs). OTFTs have been slow to improve
in terms of performance, cost and durability. By contrast, printed
silicon offers a future in which TFTs arrays can be fabricated at low
cost with the performance of the conventionally built TFTs.
Device-level revenues generated by printed silicon TFTs for display
backplanes alone are likely to reach more than $300 million by 2016.
- NanoMarkets believes that printed silicon will create major
opportunities for ink makers. For now, the printed silicon firms
closest to commercialization appear to be making their own inks. But
once the leading printed silicon companies have demonstrated success,
they will focus on the evolution and marketing of devices and that
will create a niche opportunity for ink makers to produce high-value
silicon inks in quantity.
About the Report:
This new NanoMarkets report discusses and analyzes where printed silicon fits
into the entire functional printing picture, how it competes with other materials,
and which applications it is best suited for. As with all NanoMarkets reports,
this report includes a granular eight-year forecast of revenues from silicon
inks and printed materials as well as an assessment of the product/market strategies
of the leading firms active in this space.
Among the firms mentioned in this report are Cima NanoTech, CDT, Corning, Innovalight,
JA Solar, JSR Micro, Kovio, Mitsui, NanoGram, Nanosys, OTB Solar, Panasonic,
Roth & Rau, Schott, Seiko Epson, Semprius and Solexant.