Thursday, October 20, 2011

NanoMarkets Adds New Report on Transparent Conductors in Touch Screens to Schedule

The report “Opportunities for Transparent Conductors in the Touch-Screen Display Industry—2011” will be released in late October and is available at pre-publication pricing through the end of the month.

Glen Allen, VA, October 20, 2011 - Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report, “Opportunities for Transparent Conductors in the Touch-Screen Display Industry—2011” to the firm’s publication schedule. The report is scheduled to be released during the month of October 2011. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication rates. Additional details are available on the firm’s website at

About the Report:


Touch-screen devices have gone from being a sleepy niche in the display industry to one of its fastest growing segments. Touch-screen displays – or rather the touch sensors that sit on top of them – are also large users of transparent conductive coatings. No surprise then that touch screens are seen as an immediate opportunity for the many new firms that are crowding into the transparent conductor market. And the attractiveness of the touch-screen market to the makers of novel transparent conductors is enhanced by the fact that the touch- sensor industry seems more than willing to rid themselves of a dependence on ITO with its high costs and low mechanical performance.

However, today one medium-sized factory producing transparent conductors is large enough to produce all the transparent conducting materials that the touch-sensor business needs for the foreseeable future. No one can blame the transparent conductor makers for chasing after customers who are willing to buy right now. But the question arises as to how much the touch-screen sector should really mean to them. Touch-screens may be an opportunity, but are they a big enough opportunity to build a substantial business on? Are touch screens just a way for firms manufacturing transparent conductors to bring in some short-term money in a difficult economic climate, or will they be a step to bigger things?

In this new report, NanoMarkets provides readers with a deeper understanding of the latest trends, requirements and potential of the touch-screen sector from the perspective of the transparent conductor industry. Although frequently lumped together, there are many types of touch-screen displays and this report examines the potential for each as a market for transparent conductors. The report also discusses what the challenges and opportunities will be for transparent conductor firms if – as expected by some – touch sensors start to be integrated not by third parties, but by the big flat panel display firms in Asia.

This report provides a granular analysis and forecast of all the new markets that are opening up for transparent conductors in the burgeoning touch-screen industry. By examining each of the main touch-screen technologies we determine and quantify the opportunities for transparent conductors in this space over the next eight-years, what kind of conductors will be needed and who is best suited to supply them. The analysis presented here is illustrated with critical discussions of the strategies that are currently being deployed by transparent conductor firms as they attack touch screen markets.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes opportunities in advanced materials and emerging electronics and energy markets. Please visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:
Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
PO Box 3840
Glen Allen, VA 23058
(804) 360-2967

NanoMarkets Adds Report The Markets for Flexible Glass – 2011 to Publication Schedule

The report is scheduled to be released during the month of October 2011. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication rates through the end of October.

Glen Allen, VA, October 20, 2011 - Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report, “The Markets for Flexible Glass – 2011” to the firm’s publication schedule. The report is scheduled to be released during the month of October 2011. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication rates through the end of October. Additional details are available on the firm’s website at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/the_markets_for_flexible_glass_2011

About the Report:

“Flexible electronics” is an idea that has been with us for a while, but is only now beginning to inch towards reality. The concept of displays that can be rolled up and put in a pocket, or solar and lighting panels that conform to contours of a building fabric are attractive ideas, both from aesthetic and practical standpoints. But they will require flexible substrates and while a large share of the flexible electronics and solar panel market will be supported on plastic substrates, NanoMarkets believes that a substantial share of flexible substrate market will be garnered by “flexible glass.” In addition, we believe that flexible glass has an important role to play in the flexible encapsulation business. Flexible glass brings to the market the familiarity, transparency, rigidity, thermal stability and scratch resistance that conventional plastics cannot offer.

With all this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this report analyzing the market for flexible glass over the next eight years. This report examines the flexible glass products currently on the market and where they are likely to generate new revenues. It also discusses where the next wave of flexible glass and similar products will be coming from and what sectors of the display and solar panel industry will be most likely to make use of flexible glass for both substrates and encapsulation. As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report includes an eight-year market forecast with breakouts by types of materials and specific applications.

Coverage:

Flexible Glass: Technology and Products
• Current Flexible Glass Products and Technologies
• AGC/Asahi Glass
• Corning
• Nipon Electric Glass
• Schott
• Tokyo Electron Glass
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Likely market entrants: From China with glass?
• “Near-flexible” glass
• “Pseudo-flexible” glass (ceramic/polymer mixes)
• Flexible glass versus other flexible substrates
• Plastics
• Metal foil
• Flexible glass and encapsulation
• Manufacturing flexible glass: trends and challenges

Markets for Flexible Glass
• The future use of flexible glass in R2R processes
• E-readers
• The role of flexible glass in “electronic paper”
• Cell phones and slate computers
• Flexible glass and rollable/foldable displays
• Flexible glass in touch panels
• Flexible glass and the future of building-integrated PV (BIPV)
• BIPV shingles
• Flexible glass and BIPV glass
• Other BIPV markets
• Flexible glass for OLED lighting
• Other markets and applications concepts for flexible glass
• Sensors
• Flexible batteries
• Chip packages
• Optical storage
• Wearable displays
• Is there flexible glass in the future of televisions?

Forecasts of Flexible Glass Markets
• Forecast by type of flexible glass
• Forecast by application/end-user market
• Forecast by type of application (substrate, encapsulation, etc.)

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes opportunities in advanced materials and emerging electronics and energy markets. Please visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:
Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
PO Box 3840
Glen Allen, VA 23058
(804) 360-2967