IDTechEx Research: Printed Electronics 2016-2026: Trends, New Progress and Outlook

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Printed Electronics 2016-2026:
Trends, New Progress and
Outlook
Raghu Das, CEO
IDTechEx.com / r.das@IDTechEx.com

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Printed, Flexible and Organic Electronics Status
• Organic but not printed
• Progression to flexible displays
• Little focus on simple, printed
OLED displays
• Glucose test strips are the majority
of the market (20bn units)
• Rest is $83 million of different
sensor types and applications
• PV is main market, followed by
touch panel electrodes
• Overall growth 3.3% CAGR to
2020
OLED Displays
Sensors
Conductive
Ink
$16
Billion
$6.5
Billion $1.3
Billion
2016 Total: $24.2 Bn
DISPLAY &
LIGHTING
e-paper displays $250Mn
AC EL disp $70Mn
OLED Lighting <$50Mn
Electrochromic disp <$2Mn
POWER
Printed/thin film batteries <$5Mn
OPV, DSSC <$1Mn
Logic & memory $8Mn
Source: IDTechEx report “Printed, Organic & Flexible Electronics Forecasts, Players & Opportunities” www.IDTechEx.com/pe

In Mass Production: Thin Film Encapsulation (TFE) for Curved/Flexible (Kateeva)
Next Mass Production Product: RGB OLED Pixel Printing for TV?
Printing for Flexible Displays
Kateeva

Quantum Dot Displays Go to Market
The property of quantum dots which has attracted most interest has been photoluminescence
Quantum dots combine broad absorption spectra with a very narrow emission spectra which
can be tuned.
Samsung recently launched new ‘SUHD” TVs with cadmium-free quantum dots. Samsung
does not make OLED TVs and uses SUHD to compete in the premium TV category
EU is to see if QDOTs with cadmium can continue to be used
QDOTs as an emissive display without LCD an alternative to printed OLEDs?
$500 million in 2016 for QDOT LCD to Over $3 Billion in 2020
Source: IDTechEx report “Quantum Dots 2016-2026: Applications, Markets, Manufacturers” www.IDTechEx.com/qd

20Bn Glucose test strips.
Rest of the market is $83
million
New glucose test strip
regulations means higher
conductivity ink needed
Printed gas sensors now
being adopted
Innovation opportunity:
sensors with novel form
factors
Emerging printed sensors have a strong
growth potential
Source: IDTechEx report “Printed and Flexible Sensors: Technologies, Players, Forecasts” www.IDTechEx.com/sensors

3D antenna printing gaining traction and
now competing head-on with LDS
Other printing processes also already
commercial
Saving space and reducing turn-around time
are key drivers
Antenna printing is on the up
Source: IDTechEx report “Conductive Ink Markets 2016-2026: Forecasts, Technologies, Players” www.IDTechEx.com/ink

Embedding electronics
in thermoformed or
injection-molded
electronics
Focus is simple but high
volume circuits
Conductive inks as
interconnects or
sensors, and standard
SMD can be added later
In Mold Electronics (IME) gaining interest

Printed batteries for wearables
Flexible and/or printed batteries
enable wearable tech to go wearable
Large companies are now interested
(Apple, LG Chem, Samsung, STMicro
etc), changing the competitive
landscape.
Different types of technologies, some
printed, others not
Sources: Imprint Energy, Sensium Vitals, Bainisha, Blue Spark

Nanosilicon used for TFTs, temp
sensors, doped emitters.
Commercial in antitheft tags and
some smart devices
Metal oxide TFT backplanes
commercial for LCDs and
OLEDs (not printed) and some
smart devices
OSC technology improving:
Mobilities in the tens but stable
versions around 5
Increasing activity with CNT
TFTs showing mobilities over
100
PragmatIC Printing and Thin
Film Electronics: both recently
successfully closed fund raising,
develop complete solutions with
partners
Logic and Memory

Many Government-funded centers around the World
Diverse range of equipment from R&D to commercial manufacturing
Focus on hybrid electronics – many opportunities for equipment suppliers
Printing in production: barrier layers for OLEDs, PV bus bars…
Large EMS companies now very active with flexible/printed electronics
Printed & Flexible Electronics Manufacturing
Comes Center Stage

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