Printed Electronics
 The electronics industry is pushing for new production methods and materials that can enable low-cost production, as well as novel devices and form factors, with light weight and low energy usage. Printed, organic, and flexible electronics technologies can also add unique value in industries from automotive to aerospace and defense, and create new markets for suppliers from the chemicals and materials industry.
Integrating these technologies and processes is challenging, but holds big rewards for those that provide solutions. To win, companies need to:
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- Stay on top of rapidly evolving technology
- Assess a wide variety of companies
- Pull together partnerships across materials, equipment, and devices
- Grasp complex technical and commercial challenges
- Identify applications that will see earliest success
- Understand device cost breakdowns and where to play
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Sample topics covered by Lux Research:
Technologies:
- Conductive polymers, organic ink formulation
- Organic semiconductors, organic insulating layers
- Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) emissive materials
- Metal/semiconductor inks, nanoparticle inks
- TFT/backplane materials
- Flexible substrate materials
- Flexible encapsulants (high water/oxygen barrier)
- Deposition technologies: Inkjet printing, gravure printing, aerosol jet, screen printing, vacuum deposition
- Roll-to-roll fabrication
- Flexible transparent conductive layers
- Smart paper and textiles
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Applications:
- Displays
- Flexible form factors
- E-paper/e-readers
- Mobile devices
- Electronic signage
- Electronic shelf tags
- Micro displays
- RFID tags/smart labels
- OLED and printed lighting
- Photovoltaics
- Organic
- Printed
- Flexible
- Sensors
- Thin-film batteries
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Companies:
- QD Vision
- Nanosolar
- Kovio
- Plastic Logic
- Polyera
- Blue Spark
- Vorbeck Materials
- Solarmer
- E Ink
- FUJIFILM Dimatix
- Unidym
- Add-Vision Inc.
- Samsung
- BASF
- DuPont
- Ricoh
- General Electric
- H.C. Starck
- Hewlett - Packard
- View a sample Company Profile
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