Materials and Substrates for Printed Electronics: Opportunities and Markets

With printed electronics now promising large markets in a few years, we believe that their will be growing opportunities for selling new materials products into this sector. These opportunities will include novel organic and metallic inks, a variety of substrate materials and interesting new solvents, mask making materials, etc. This new direction has potential for firms in the specialty chemical, materials, electronics, semiconductors and printing industries and should also be of interest to investors seeking to make money from an important direction for new materials development.

This report is designed to quantify the opportunities, providing detailed forecasts of materials needed for printed electronics, broken out by chemistry, application and type of printing technology. It will also review the latest R&D and the marketing strategies of firms already active in this sector.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

• Summary of main opportunities
• Leading firms active in this sector
• Summary of forecasts

Chapter 1 : Introduction

• Background to this report
• Evolution of printable electronics and product directions
• Type of printing processes used
• Key challenges for printable electronics
• Objectives of this report
• Scope of this report
• Methodology of this report
• Plan of this report

Chapter 2 : Markets for Inks

• Polymer and other organic inks
• Inks currently being used
• Important R&D and likely future products
• Nano-metallic inks
• Inks currently being used
• Important R&D and likely future products
• Impact of specific printing technologies used
• Solvents and other related chemicals
• Impact of specific printing technologies on electronic ink markets
• Ink requirements of specific printed electronics products
• Activities of leading firms in this sector

Chapter 3 :  Markets for Substrates

• Plastic and flexible substrates
• Card
• Metal
• A role for glass?
• Other
• Important R&D and likely future products
• Impact of specific printing technologies on substrates
• Substrate requirements of specific printed electronics products
• Activities of leading firms in this sector

Chapter 4 :  Eight-Year Forecasts of Materials for Printed Electronics

• Forecasting methodology
• Forecast of markets for organic inks: 2006-2013
  • by ink chemistry
  • by type of printing process
• Forecast of markets for metallic inks: 2006-2013
  • by ink chemistry
  • by type of printing process
• Forecast of substrates for printed electronicsby materials type
  • by type of printing process
• Forecast of other materials required for printed electronics
  • Solvents
  • Mask materials
  • Other