Printable Electronics Market Outlook: Printed Batteries

Abstract

Printed batteries are an interesting and potentially profitable idea that will find applications in RFIDs, smartcards, sensors, and medical devices. This report analyzes the potential for this kind of battery from an applications perspective. It begins with an overview of those battery chemistries that currently lend themselves to a printed approach and then continues with a discussion of all the applications in which printed batteries might be used. For each of these applications we show where printed batteries could ultimately provide a cost or manufacturing advantage over today' s coin or button batteries. The report also provides profiles of firms that are competing in this sector, the products that they are offering and the markets they are targeting. The report also includes a discussion of recent developments in the field and a forecast of revenues from printed batteries over the next eight years.

Table of Contents

chapter one: printed electronics market overview

chapter two: the evolution of printed electronics technology and the birth of an industry

• Materials and Production Issues: Improvements and Outstanding Issues
• Mega-Drivers for Printable Electronics
• How Printed Electronics Can "Save" the Electronics Industry
• Dawn of an Industry?

chapter three: printed batteries

• Printed Battery Chemistries
• Carbon-Zinc Batteries
• Zinc Manganese Dioxide

chapter four: current and future applications for printed batteries

• Printable Batteries vs. Conventional Batteries
• New Technology Alternatives to Printed Batteries
• RFID
• Smartcards
• Medical Devices
• Sensors
• Displays and Consumer Devices
• Military and Homeland Security
• Other Applications

chapter five: the firms that are shaping the printed battery market

chapter six: eight-year forecasts of printed battery markets

• What Has Changed in the Past Year
• Summary of Forecasts

chapter seven: key points

acronyms and abbreviations used in this report

about the authors

list of exhibits

• Exhibit 1: Major Economic Drivers for Printed Electronics
• Exhibit 2: Industry Sector "Crises" and How TOP Electronics Can Help
• Exhibit 3: Companies Shaping the Printed Battery Market: Applications Targeted
• Exhibit 4: Selected Power Paper Partners
• Exhibit 5: Printable Batteries Market ($ Millions)