The report quantifies the future revenues from the fluids used in jetting industrial prototypes and 3-D models, automotive components, printed circuit boards (PCBs), MEMS, security printing, smart textiles, electronic displays, smart packaging and RFID tags, ceramics, photovoltaics and biochips.
The report provides eight-year projections (both volume and value) of inks used in such applications, with break outs by ink type, printer technology and world region. Inks covered comprise aqueous, solvent, ultraviolet/electron beam (UV/EB), hot melt/phase-change and oil-based. The break-out by printer technology covers continuous printing, piezoelectric, thermal and valve jet.
This report identifies both immediate opportunities for functional jetting inks and longer-term one and the strategies that are being used to capitalize on these opportunities. Among the firms discussed in this report are Agilent, Bayer, Cambridge Display Technology, Cima NanoTech, Dai Nippon Printing, Dow Corning, DuPont, Fujifilm Dimatix, Hewlett-Packard, Kovio, Methode, Microfab, Mitsubishi, Objet Geometries, Samsung, Sartomer, Source Technologies, Sun Chemical, Teijin, Seiko Epson, VTT, Xaar, Xennia, Xenon and Z Corporation.
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to this Functional Inkjet Ink Opportunities Report
1.1.1 The “New” Printed Electronics and the Ink it Needs
1.1.2 Inks and Jetted Bio-devices: From Test Strips to Organ Printing
1.1.3 Inks for printing on Non-Standard Substrates: Tiles, Textiles and Beyond
1.1.4 Inks for 3D Printing: New Life for Manufacturing
1.1.5 Inkjet and Fluid Micro-dispensing: Not Quite Printing
1.1.6 Functional Fluid Making Opportunities for Inkjet
1.2 Objective and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology
1.4 Plan of this Report
Chapter Three: Market Drivers, Applications and Ink Requirements for InkJet-Based Digital Fabrication
3.1 The Role of Functional Inkjet in Organic and “Printed Electronics”
3.1.1 Display and Lighting Applications
3.1.2 Sensors and Inkjet
3.1.3 RFID, Smart Packaging and Inkjet
3.1.4 Photovoltaic Applications
3.1.5 Types of Inks Used and Ink-Related Opportunities
3.2 Traditional Semiconductor Industry Applications for Functional Inkjet
3.2.1 Circuit Board Manufacture
3.2.2 MEMS
3.2.3 Types of Inks Used and Ink-Related Opportunities
3.3 Inkjet as 3-D Printing
3.3.1 The Role of Inkjet in 3D Printing
3.3.2 Inkjet, Rapid Prototyping and Modeling: Inks and Fluids Used
3.3.3 Inkjet and the Concept of Customized Manufacturing
3.3.4 Inkjet and Desktop Manufacturing
3.4 Biomedical Fabrication Applications and Inkjet
3.4.1 Test Strips
3.4.2 DNA Arrays and Biochips
3.4.3 Biosensors and Other Medical Sensors
3.4.4 Regenerative Medicine
3.5 Automotive Industry Component Applications for Functional Inkjet
3.5.1 Gauge Clusters, Ornaments and UV Inks
3.6 Jetting of Optical Devices and Waveguides
3.7 Inkjet and Security Printing
3.7.1 Banknotes/Currency
3.7.2 Types of Inks Used and Ink-Related Opportunities
3.8 Jetting Textiles
3.8.1 Types of Inks Used and Ink-Related Opportunities
3.9 Jetting Ceramics
3.9.1 Types of Inks Used and Ink-Related Opportunities
3.9 Jetting Adhesives
3.10 Key Points in this Chapter
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used In this Report
About the Author
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