New NanoMarkets Report Projects Printed Electronics Market Will Reach $30.1 Billion in 2015
Markets for displays, signage, lighting, RFID tags, sensors, solar panels, batteries and other products manufactured using printing technology will reach $30.1 billion by 2015 according to a new report from NanoMarkets.
The report, Printable Electronics Market Outlook: An Applications-Based Assessment, notes the progress that the printed electronics industry has made in the past few years and goes on to project which printed electronics applications will generate the most revenues in the next seven years.
The following list includes main points from the report.
• Printed electronics products are now in full-scale production. E-paper displays and RFID antennas are being routinely printed and such products are expected to generate $5.6 and $12.6 billion in revenues respectively by 2015. E-paper has emerged as a strong application for printed electronics, demonstrating that printing technology can produce complex electronics products that can generate real revenue. NanoMarkets analysts also expect that as improved manufacturing equipment and materials become available further product opportunities will emerge.
• Printing also plays a role in the manufacturing of next-generation photovoltaics with new CIGS and nanoparticle inks being used to create low-cost, high efficiency solar panels on flexible substrates. Projected sales for printed solar panels will reach $2.5 billion by 2015. Printed electronics will also make a contribution to energy savings through printed OLED lighting, an emerging cost effective approach to solid state illumination. This type of lighting is expected to reach $1.7 billion in sales by 2015.
• Printing is no longer viewed as a wholesale fabrication technology. It is increasingly seen as an essential tool for manufacturing the new generation of flexible and large area electronics products. As products move from the lab to the fab, manufacturers are combining fabrication technologies, printing certain layers while using more conventional, sputtering, deposition and even optical lithography approaches on other layers.
Consarc Establishes New Division Dedicated to Photovoltaic Industry
Consarc Corp., an Inductotherm Group (IG) Company, has announced the formation of a new division dedicated solely to the Photovoltaic (PV) industry. Consarc, coordinated with the efforts of other IG companies, will apply its experience of more than 45 years in advanced vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnace technologies to the mass production and processing of solar grade silicon.
Consarc’s new PV division will be located at their worldwide headquarters in Rancocas, N.J. The newly formed engineering department will maintain modern engineering design, including the latest solid modeling and engineering software of both a general and proprietary nature. With the coordinated efforts of the IG companies, Consarc owns and has the rights to a number of IG patents related to the melting, refining, solidification and heating of extremely pure alloys and semiconductors.
Investment Community Sees Outperforming Opportunities in Printed Semiconductor Market
Pan-European investment company MV Holding has invested in Nanoident Technologies AG, a developer and producer of printed semiconductor-based sensors.
The funds will be used for Nanoident’s growth. Nanoident’s printed semiconductor solutions address many high-value applications that traditional silicon-based semiconductors cannot.
Founded in 1993 by Murat Vargi, MV Group is composed of uniquely positioned assets.
Having created the sector leaders in telecom services and distribution, the Group has later invested in media, energy and real estate, in existing assets with proven edge and high growth potential. The Group has also ventured in international investments through stakes in a residential conversion project in NYC and recently in a US-based technology start-up, HAKIA.com.
The associated funds will be invested in the company’s strategy to transform its technological leadership into commercial growth by focusing on customized solutions for high-growth market segments. The subsidiaries created to concentrate on these segments are:
• BIOIDENT Technologies, Inc., which provides a mobile lab-on-a-chip system for instantaneous analysis and diagnostics in environmental, healthcare, and security applications.
• Nanoident Biometrics GmbH, which is developing a complete suite of reliable, user-friendly multimodal biometric security solutions. This technology enables recognition of a broad variety of biometric traits for more reliable and secure personal authentication in next generation mobile phones, smart cards, and PCs as well as virtually any other security application.
Nemoptic Appointments News CFO
Nemoptic, an e-paper display company for consumer and professional handheld devices, has appointed Philippe Méchanick as Chief Financial Officer.
Méchanick, 49, will be responsible for reinforcing Nemoptic's financial structure, now that the start-up has successfully transformed into a fast growing international manufacturing company. His priorities will be to increase the competitive cost advantage of Nemoptic's e-paper displays and optimize the international financial management of its production and sales across Asia, as well as sales in North America and Europe. Nemoptic considers these actions important to structure the company for its next development phase.
"Philippe's appointment has come at a critical moment and his executive skills will be a real asset, as we enter a new growth phase," said Jacques Noels, CEO at Nemoptic. "Our numbers are up in the volume production of our BiNem e-paper displays and his timely arrival will ensure that our financial operations and resources will be in place to support our development worldwide."
Méchanick joins Nemoptic from start-up PolySpace Technologies, where he was the Financial Director for more than three years. There, he played a key role for PolySpace in the negotiations leading to its sale to The MathWorks, a company developing and marketing MatLab and Simulink.
In 2007, Nemoptic signed a manufacturing deal with Seiko Instruments Inc. to produce high volumes of BiNem LCD e-paper display modules and entered a joint project with Label Headway, to manufacture Electronic Shelf Labels. The company recently announced that it had received EUR 2M in funding from the French government to develop a multiformat e-reader device project that it leads. |
OnChip Devices, a company focused on integrated passive devices (IPD), has introduced the smallest SMD ESD protection TVS diodes available in the industry. The approximate size of the device is 0.020 inches by 0.010 inches (0.6 mm by 0.3 mm) and it is built using advanced silicon technology. The product is a surface-mountable Flip Chip with two solder bumps for direct attachment to printed circuit boards. The ESD0201 has well suited electrical performance and exceeds the requirements of IEC61000-4-2 level four. This product offers ESD level in excess of 30 kV contact discharge when tested to IEC61000 standards. In spite of the exceptionally high ESD level, this device offers a relatively low input capacitance of under 20 pF.
SanDisk Corp., seller of MP3 players, has announced capacity increases for two of its most popular flash-based digital media players, the tiny Sansa Clip moves to a top capacity of 4 gigabytes (GB) from 2 GB, while the Sansa View jumps to 32 GB from a previous top capacity of 16 GB. 
Polymer Vision has announced plans to mass produce a rollable display device, Readius aimed at cell phone applications. The rollable display in the Readius also contains E Ink's Vizplex Imaging Film.
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