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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 December 2007
Printed electronics to spur disposable
culture
Report provides a complete analysis of the new opportunities appearing in disposable electronics as the result of emerging low-cost devices.
A report from NanoMarkets predicts that disposable electronics will represent a market of US $26.2 billion market by 2015 New manufacturing technologies, such as functional printing, and new materials, such as organic semiconductors, are enabling sophisticated electronic devices to be embedded in everyday objects such as packaging, credit cards, pricing labels, games and toys, clothing and low-end medical products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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E-paper technology will be a genuine alternative to paper in environments where updateability is crucial.
For example, by 2015 NanoMarkets projects that paper pricing labels will see significant replacement by e-paper point-of-purchase (POP) displays, with $1.6 billion in e-paper displays sold for POP applications in 2015.
Other areas of disposable electronics where e-paper displays are expected to make a significant impact are in smartcards (especially for one-time security pass codes) and smart packaging.
Organic transistors and memories will create new classes of products ranging from multifunction smartcards to pharmaceutical packaging and will also breathe new life into the games, toys and greetings cards business.
Technologies now exist to print electronics that enable games, toys and other novelties to interface directly with the Internet thus expanding the boundaries of the gaming business.
By 2015, the value of "games, gadgets and gizmos" using printed or organic electronics will be $1.2 billion.
The new disposable electronics will also represent a huge opportunity for materials suppliers, who will supply more than $17.5 billion in materials into the disposable electronics sector in 2015.
There will be a strong demand for inexpensive conductive inks and these will be far less demanding in terms of performance than those required for larger displays, solar panels etc.
Paper substrates will be of especial interest because of the work that has been going on at both universities and in commercial firms to create electronics on coated papers or even corrugated cardboard.
This work will lead paper and board substrates for disposable electronics to reach sales of $1.8 billion by 2015.
NanoMarkets' new report, "Disposable electronics: the first wave for printed and organic electronics" provides a complete analysis of the new opportunities appearing in disposable electronics as the result of emerging low-cost devices such as printed RFID tags, organic transistors and memories, e-paper displays, printed sensors and thin-film batteries.
The report includes detailed eight-year forecasts of these emerging disposable electronics markets broken out by applications and device type as well as strategic profiles of leading firms active in this market. Request free introductory details about products from NanoMarkets ...
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