Executive Summary
E.1 Printed Silicon and Its Applications: Market Potentials
E.1.1 Silicon Inks
E.1.2 Transfer Printing
E.2 Photovoltaics: Decent PV Performance Meets Rock Bottom Cost--Maybe
E.3 Display Backplanes: Printing for Flexibility?
E.4 RFID: Reducing Costs for Item-Level Applications?
E.5 Solid-State Lighting: Does Silicon Have a Chance?
E.6 Materials Issues and Opportunities
E.6.1 Printed Silicon vs. Organic Electronics: Where Printed Silicon Fits In
E.6.2 Opportunities for Ink Manufacturers
E.6.3 Opportunities for the Traditional Silicon Materials Industry
E.6.4 Printing Other Inorganic Semiconductors: Applications and Revenue Potential
E.6.5 Opportunities for Equipment Manufacturers
E.7 Firms to Watch In This Space
E.8 What's New Since NanoMarkets' 2007 Report?
E.9 Summary of Eight-Year Forecasts of Silicon Ink and Transfer Printing Markets
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to this Report
1.1.1 Printed Electronics: Not Just Exotic Materials Anymore
1.1.2 Applications for Printed Silicon
1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology of this Report
1.4 Plan of this Report
Chapter Two: Printed Silicon Materials, Technology, and Manufacturing
2.1 Organic Materials vs. Silicon in Printed Electronics
2.1.1 TFTs and Memory
2.1.2 Photovoltaics
2.2 Silicon Inks and Printing Technology
2.3 Evolution of Silicon Ink Formulations
2.3.1 Special Considerations for Inkjet Printing
2.3.2 Key Players in Silicon Inks
2.4 Transfer Printing
2.5 Printing Other Inorganic Semiconductors
2.6 Substrates for Printed Silicon
2.6.1 Silicon
2.6.2 Glass
2.6.3 Metal Foils
2.6.4 Plastic
2.6.5 Paper and Board
2.7 Environmental, Health, and Safety Concerns with Silicon Inks
2.8 Key Points Made in this Chapter
Chapter Three: Printed Silicon Applications and Markets
3.1 Printed Silicon in the Current Economy: Competing Interests
3.2 Printed Silicon in Photovoltaics
3.2.1 Key Players
3.2.2 Can Printed Silicon PV Be as Cheap as OPV?
3.2.3 Printed Silicon vs. Other Printed PV
3.3 Printed Silicon in Display Backplanes
3.3.1 Printed Silicon vs. Traditional Silicon TFTs
3.3.2 Printed Silicon vs. OTFTs
3.3.3 Key Players and Research Groups
3.4 Printed Silicon and RFID
3.4.1 Key Players and Research Groups
3.4.2 Current State of Printing in the RFID Business
3.4.3 Printed Silicon vs. Traditional RFID Chips
3.4.4 Printed Silicon vs. OTFTs in RFID
3.4.5 Can Printed Silicon Help to Move RFID to the Item Level?
3.5 Printed Silicon Lighting
3.5.1 Printed Silicon vs. OLEDs and HB-LEDs: Does Silicon Stand a Chance?
3.6 Key Points Made in this Chapter
Chapter Four: Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed Silicon Markets
4.1 Forecasting Methodology
4.1.1 Data Sources
4.1.2 Scope of Forecast
4.1.3 Alternative Scenarios and Other Factors Taken Into Consideration
4.1.4 Some Notes on Pricing
4.2 Forecasts of Printed Silicon Device Markets by Application
4.2.1 Photovoltaics
4.2.2 Display Backplanes
4.2.3 RFID
4.2.4 Lighting and Other Applications
4.3 Forecasts of Silicon Ink Markets
4.4 Forecasts of Silicon-Based Transfer Printing Markets
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used In this Report
About the Author
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