Abstract
"Organic electronics" is widely proposed as a platform for a broad and growing range of electronics products. Small organic LED displays already generate hundreds of millions of dollars. Larger OLED displays will penetrate the television market in the not-too-distant future. Considerable resources are being thrown into making substantial businesses out of organic RFIDs, backplanes based on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) and organic solar cells. Organic electronics-based sensors, memory and lighting are not far behind.
As a result of these innovations, conductive polymers, organic photovoltaic materials and other organics used in organic electronics have prospects for moving from a markets measured in kilograms to ones measured in metric tons. At the same time interest in organic electronics is spurring considerable research activity and new product innovations. Small molecule inks, hybrid organic/inorganic materials, and even biological materials are being commercialized for use in various electronics applications.
However, there are also challenges. Organic materials typically exhibit conductivities that are orders of magnitude lower than the silicon semiconductor industry has come to expect. There are also remain major issues about environmental stability of such materials; issues that are spurring growth for encapsulation/barrier materials. And in some quarters there are serious questions being raised about whether organic electronics may not ultimately fail, its role in large-area and thin-film electronics stolen by cheaper and better performing inorganic nanomaterials.
This report analyzes and forecasts the prospects for organic electronics materials in the coming eight years. In the report, we review the range of materials currently be utilized for organic electronics applications and explore interesting research directions that are being taken in universities and industrial labs. We also investigate how the organic materials markets are changing and being changed by manufacturing approaches and how the recent developments are enabling new and improved organic electronics devices.
The report also includes approximately 20 strategic profiles of leading suppliers of materials for organic electronics, and forecasts of demand for these materials in both revenues and volume terms. In these forecasts we break out the market by type of material, manufacturing technology and application.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary:
- E.1 Summary of opportunities in the organic electronics materials space
- E.1.1 Opportunities for materials suppliers
- E.1.2 How new development in organic electronics materials is enabling new applications
- E.2 Recent research and developments
- E.3 Firms to watch
- E.3.1 Strategic investments
- E.4 Summary of eight-year projections of organic electronics materials
Chapter One: Introduction
- 1.1 Background to this report
- 1.2 Goals and scope of this report
- 1.3 Methodology of this report
- 1.4 Plan of this report
Chapter Two: Evolution of Materials for Organic Electronics
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Important performance criteria for organic electronics materials
- 2.3 Types of organic materials used in organic electronics
- 2.3.1 Polymers
- 2.3.2 Small molecules
- 2.3.3 Oligomers
- 2.3.4 Dendrimers
- 2.3.5 Biological materials
- 2.3.6 Hybrid organic/inorganic materials
- 2.4 Conductive and semiconducting materials
- 2.4.1 Commonly used materials
- 2.4.2 Interesting research directions
- 2.5 Dielectric materials
- 2.6 Light emitting materials
- 2.6.1 Interesting research directions
- 2.7 Photovoltaic materials
- 2.7.1 Pure organic materials
- 2.7.2 Hybrid materials
- 2.8 Electrochromic and e-paper materials
- 2.9 Encapsulation, barrier materials and flexibility
- 2.10 Substrates
- 2.11 Key challenges for organic electronics materials
- 2.11.1 Depreciated silicon fabs
- 2.11.2 Inorganic thin film and printed electronics
- 2.12 Review of main points in this chapter
Chapter Three: Evolution of Manufacturing with Organic Electronic Materials
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Evaporation techniques
- 3.2.1 Trends in evaporation techniques for organic electronics materials
- 3.3 Printing organic materials
- 3.3.1 Organic inks
- 3.3.2 Perspectives on organic inks
- 3.4 Spin coating
- 3.5 Thermal transfer and laser imaging
- 3.6 Review of main points in this chapter
Chapter Four: Impact on Organic Electronics Devices
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 How new materials can change the prospects for OTFTs
- 4.2.1 Mobility and switching speeds
- 4.3 Materials for organic memories
- 4.4 Expected materials-enabled improvements in organic photovoltaics
- 4.5 Expected materials enabled improvements for OLEDs
- 4.5.1 Displays
- 4.5.2 Lighting
- 4.6 Materials-related aspects of disposable electronics
- 4.7 Other applications-related impacts of organic electronics materials trends
- 4.8 Review of main points in this chapter
Chapter Five: Profiles
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Agfa-Gevaert
- 5.2.1 Orgacon Products
- 5.2.2 Customer Relationships
- 5.2.3 New Product and Applications Directions
- 5.3 BASF
- 5.3.1 Sepolid and Interest in CMOS
- 5.3.2 Cooperation with Bosch on Organic PV
- 5.3.3 OLEDs and the Singapore and German Research Centers
- 5.4 Ciba Specialty Chemicals
- 5.4.1 OLED Materials
- 5.4.2 Other Organic Electronics Materials Activities
- 5.5 Degussa/Evonik
- 5.5.1 Approach to Organic CMOS
- 5.5.2 Approach to OTFT Dielectrics
- 5.6 DuPont
- 5.6.1 OLED Materials
- 5.6.2 Relationship with Konarka
- 5.7 DuPont Teijin Films
- 5.8 GE Global Research
- 5.8.1 Projects with USDC
- 5.8.2 Joint Agreement with Tokki
- 5.9 H C Starck
- 5.10 Merck/EMD
- 5.10.1 OLED Materials: livilux
- 5.10.2 Organic Semiconductor Materials and Related Materials: lisicon, isitron and isitag
- 5.11 Mitsui Chemicals
- 5.12 Novaled
- 5.12.1 Alliances with Other Firms
- 5.12.2 Substrates and Encapsulation Efforts
- 5.13 OLED-T
- 5.13.1 E255a, A New Green Emitter
- 5.13.2 Super K Contrast Enhancement Layer
- 5.13.3 EI-101 A New Electron Injector
- 5.13.4 E746 A New Host Material
- 5.13.5 Materials for Flexible OLED Materials
- 5.13.6 Backlighting Project
- 5.14 Panipol
- 5.14.1 Panipol and an EU Conductive Polymer Project
- 5.15 Plextronics
- 5.15.1 Solvay and Applied Materials Investment
- 5.15.2 Current and Future Products
- 5.15.3 HIL Materials and Work with USDC and Northwestern
- 5.15.4 Cleantech Orientation
- 5.15.5 Flexible Electronics for the Army
- 5.15.6 Conductive Polymers for Touch Technology
- 5.16 Polyera
- 5.16.1 Research at Northwestern University
- 5.16.2 Materials Platforms
- 5.16.3 Alliance with BASF
- 5.17 Rieke Metals
- 5.17.1 Joint Development and Licensing Arrangement with BASF
- 5.18 Sumitomo (Sumation)
- 5.18.1 Sumation
- 5.20 Vitex Systems
- 5.20.1 Licensing and Other Relationships
- 5.21 Xerox
- 5.21.1 Xerox Research Centre of Canada
Chapter Six: Eight-Year Forecasts
- 6.1 Forecasting methodology
- 6.2 Pricing trends for organic electronics materials
- 6.3 Forecasts of organic electronics materials by type of material
- 6.4 Forecast of organic electronics materials by application
- 6.5 Forecast of organic electronics materials by manufacturing process used.
