Dublin (PRWEB) July 28, 2005
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c21436) has announced the addition of Printed Electronics to their offering
Printed electronics is a term that encompasses much more than the long awaited commercialization of thin film transistor circuits TFTCs and organic light emitting diode displays. Both will have greatest potential when we can print them on common packaging material. TFTCs will be more robust and lower in cost than silicon chips so they will appear everywhere from singing gift cards to smart medical packaging and moving colour pictures in electronic books. However, those devices are only a part of what is going on.
All significant developments in printed electronics are closely analyzed in this report. The many printed electronic devices and displays are also mentioned such as – electrochromic, electroluminescent, etc. – that are already a commercial reality even on flexible substrates. Today’s successes also employ conductors, batteries, inductors, antennas, capacitors and electrically active materials that are printed. The moving colour billboard and gift card that are printed on flexible plastic are a reality today but rarely reported – there are lessons to be learned.
Other advances are close behind, including printed thin film fuel cells and solar cells. Later will come self-adjusting ‘use by’ dates, printed microprocessors and other wonders. The report describes three waves of development and the plethora of new applications and new suppliers being spawned as a result. However, it is not a listing of technologies but a thorough review of the changes in society that are driving these developments, a description of the new products that are needed and the very low prices at which these, usually disposable devices will sell in the millions to trillions. The most exciting suppliers and users that are emerging are identified and eleven-year forecasts are made by product. Brands will be reinvented to fight off the supermarket clones. The increasing percentage of dependent elderly will achieve better health and freedom thanks to ubiquitous disposable electronics. Automated, error free, pain free drug delivery from smart skin patches with sensors is just one example.
Those ignoring this revolution will miss the very rapid change in healthcare, consumer goods, military, postal and other sectors that results and the new legislation demanding the new levels of error prevention, safety and traceability that will become possible. They will not be among those creating major new companies and services from nowhere. They will be left behind.
Contents are entitled as follows:
First Generation Printed Electronics
Second Generation Printed Electronics
Third Generation Printed Electronics
Phase Four Printed Electronics
High Volume Applications Of Printed Electronics
Market Projections For Printed Electronics
Tables
Figures
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c21436
Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
Fax: +353 1 4100 980
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