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NanoMarkets Releases White Paper Titled, 'Five Opportunities for Indium Tin Oxide Replacement'
About the Paper
NanoMarkets' new white paper examines the market opportunity for transparent conductors that Indium Tin Oxide or ITO only marginally competes in. According to NanoMarkets there are five key opportunities in which transparent conductors are used and in which ITO doesn't quite meet the necessary specs. In two of these opportunities — touch-screen displays and flexible displays — ITO is limited by its tendency to crack or break. In printable electronics ITO is limited by the ability of the industry to turn ITO into a high-performance conductive ink. In solid-state lighting ITO has been widely used as a transparent conductor for electroluminescent (EL) lighting for quite some time, but it is an open question as to whether it would be the transparent conductor of choice for the emerging area of OLED lighting. Finally, with thin film photovoltaics, an area where ITO has never really established a presence and there may be better materials to do the job.
According to NanoMarkets, flexible displays, OLED lighting and printed electronics have a certain niche-like character at the present time. This will change as these areas have the potential to generate quite sizeable amounts of transparent conductor demand in the future. Thin-film photovoltaics is only just emerging from a niche status. Touch-screen displays are already a large and growing market. All four areas are generating a demand for transparent conductors that have different characteristics than ITO classic can provide.
About the Report
This new NanoMarkets report, The Future of ITO: Transparent Conductor and ITO Replacement Markets also discusses the future of ITO itself. This includes a thorough analysis of the future of the ITO supply chain; from the zinc mine to the display. It also includes an analysis of the future impact of Indium pricing on the ITO business. Finally, the report covers new types of ITO materials including ITO inks, ITO nanopowders, and transparent conductors that combine ITO with other materials. This report also discusses the strategic marketing issues that will have to be addressed to enable growth in all these markets and includes an eight-year forecast of novel ITO formulations and alternatives. It also profiles the activities of leading companies and labs working in this field. The study will be of vital interest to firms in the ITO industry itself, as well as firms with new or existing materials that can serve as ITO replacements. Indeed, any business that manufactures, uses or invests in transparent conductors will find much to interest them in this report.
About NanoMarkets
NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in electronics created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to organic, thin film and printable electronics materials and applications and maintains a blog at www.nanotopblog.com that comments on industry trends and events. NanoMarkets research database is the industry's most extensive source of information on thin film, organic and printable (TOP) electronics. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets reports and other services.
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