Summary
The sensor market will take off rapidly in the next decade, driven by the needs for better diagnostics for an aging population, environmental monitoring, national security and military markets and -- in the not too distant future -- small scale robotics. These are diverse applications areas, but one factor that they will have in common will be the need for sensors that are distributed over large-area, flexible substrates. In many cases, these large-area sensors will be created -- in all or part -- with printing technology.
NanoMarkets believes that while some of the most exciting opportunities in this sector lie in the future, there are already ways to tap into this emerging market that can leverage existing technologies, materials, manufacturing approaches and marketing channels into new business revenues. The objective of this report is to identify just where these opportunities are.
Beginning with an analysis of the potential from existing printed sensor products such as sensors with printed electrodes and diagnostic test strips and assays, this new NanoMarkets report provides a roadmap and revenue forecast that will point out where and how the money will be made on the way to fully functional large-area sensor systems.
This report will also show how new developments in printed electronics, substrate materials and sensor materials will enable this new kind of sensing system. It will g on to discuss the commercial implications of current sensor trends from singlet devices such as gas sensors and pressure sensors to complex layered subsystems such as smart noses, smart skins and labs on a chip and how these new kinds of sensors represent a station on the way to true wide-area sensors.
The report will provide a guide to where and when the demand will emerge for wide area and printed sensors in the all key application sectors including military, medical and genomics/proteomics, national security, pervasive computing, robotics, transportation, smart packaging, smart buildings and environmental monitoring, and consumer electronics. Finally, the report will discuss the latest R&D developments in this field as well as the strategies of the firms that are commercializing this new technology and where they are looking for first revenues.
This report will be invaluable to sensor firms, manufacturers of smart materials and nanomaterials, printed electronics companies, applications developers, as well as electronics and medical device firms more generally.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
E.1 Introduction
E.1.1 Opportunities for Printed and Large-Area Sensors in Smart Textiles
E.1.2 Opportunities for Low-End Electronic Noses and Tongues
E.1.3 Opportunities for Smart Skins
E.1.4 Opportunities in Diabetic Test Products
E.1.5 Opportunities in Biochips, Microarrays and Labs-on-a-Chip
E.1.6 Opportunities in Patient Monitoring and Smart Bandages
E.1.7 Opportunities for Printed and Large-area Sensors in Military, Intelligence and Security Markets
E.1.8 Opportunities for Large-Area Sensors in Environmental Monitoring
E.1.9 Opportunities for Large-Area Sensors in Buildings and Transportation
E.1.10 Opportunities in Smart Packaging
E.1.11 Opportunities in Human Enhancement and Robotics
E.1.12 Opportunities in Pervasive Computing
E.2 Opportunities in Materials and Fabrication Technology
E.2.1 Fabrication Challenges and Opportunities
E.2.2 Materials Challenges and Opportunities
E.3 Summary of Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed and Large-Area Sensors
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to the Report
1.1.1 Large-Area Sensors and Printed Sensors
1.1.2 The Large-Area Sensor Business Today
1.1.3 The Case for Large-Area and Printed Sensors
1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology of this Report
1.4 Plan of this Report
Chapter Two: Technology and Product Trends
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Evolution of Large-Area Sensor Architectures
2.2 Current and Future Manufacturing Trends for Printed and large-Area Sensors
2.2.1 Role of Screen Printing: Current and Future
2.2.2 Role of Inkjet: Current and Future
2.2.3 Sensors and Other Types of Printing
2.3 Materials Platforms for Large-Area and Printed Sensors
2.3.1 Conductive Materials for Printed and Large-area Sensors
2.3.2 Semiconductor Materials for Printed and Large-Area Sensors
2.3.3 Commercialization of Nanomaterials and Smart Materials for Sensor Applications
2.3.4 Flexible Substrates for Large-Area Sensors
2.3.5 Printed and Large-Area Sensors and Smart Textiles
2.4 Printed and Large-Area Gas and Liquid Sensors
2.4.1 Printed OLED Gas Sensors
2.4.2 Electronic Noses and Tongues
2.5 Printed and Large-Area Mechanical Sensors
2.5.1 Smart Skins
2.5.2 Notable Research and Development and Productization Efforts
2.6 Printed and Large-Area Biosensors
2.6.1 Printed Electrodes for Biosensors
2.6.2 Diagnostic Test Strips
2.6.3 Printed Biochips and Microarrays
2.6.4 Printed Labs-On-A-Chip
2.7 Printed Optical Sensors
2.8 Key Points in This Chapter
Chapter Three: Analysis of Demand for Printed and Large-Area Sensors
3.1 Introduction: A Framework for Analysis of the Printed/Large-Area Sensor Market
3.2 Military and National Security Applications
3.2.1 Market Environment
3.2.2 Types of Printed and Large-Area Sensors Required
3.2.3 Smart Uniforms
3.3 Large-Area Sensors and Environmental Monitoring
3.3.1 Market Environment
3.3.2 Types of Printed and Large-Area Sensors Required
3.3.3 Smart Buildings
3.4 Uses of Large-Area Sensors in Transportation
3.4.1 Aerospace
3.4.2 Automotive Applications
3.5 Biomedical Markets
3.5.1 Market Environment
3.5.2 Types of Printed and Large-Area Sensors Required
3.5.3 Diabetic and Other Test Strips
3.5.4 Genomics and Proteomics
3.5.5 Patient Monitoring
3.5.6 Smart Bandages
3.6 Human Enhancement and Robotics
3.6.1 Market Environment
3.6.2 Types of Printed and Large-Area Sensors Required: Artificial Skin and Other Types of Sensors
3.7 Printed Sensors and Smart Packaging
3.7.1 Market Environment
3.7.2 Types of Printed and Large-Area Sensors Required
3.7.3 Pharmaceutical Packaging
3.7.4 Food Packaging
3.8 Printed and Large-Area Sensors in Pervasive Computing
3.9 Key Points in This Chapter
Chapter Four: Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed and Large-Area Sensors
4.1 Forecasting Methodology
4.1.1 Data Sources
4.1.2 Scope of Forecast
4.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed and Large-Area Biochemical and Chemical/Gas Sensors
4.3 Eight-Year Forecasts of Pressure, Motion and Physical Sensors
4.4 Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed and Large-Area Sensors by Application and Type
4.5 Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed Sensors and Large-Area Sensors
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used In this Report
About the Author
List of Exhibits
Exhibit E-1: Worldwide Market for Printed and Large-Area Sensors
Exhibit 2-1: Advantages of Printing for Fabricating Large-Area Sensors
Exhibit 2-2: Comparison of Processes Used for Printable Electronics
Exhibit 2-3: Opportunities for Flexible Sensors
Exhibit 3-1: Roadmap for Adoption of Sensors in Smart Packaging
Exhibit 4-1: Market Forecasts for Printed and Large-Area Biochemical and Chemical/Gas Sensors
Exhibit 4-2: Market Forecasts for Printed/Large-Area Pressure, Motion and Other Physical Sensors
Exhibit 4-3: Market Forecasts by of Printed/Large-Area Sensor By Application ($ Millions)
Exhibit 4-4: Market Forecasts by Type of Sensor ($ Millions)
Share this on social networks or email
FollowNanomarkets on Twitter
JoinNanomarkets on Facebook
FollowNanomarkets on LinkedIN
Subscribeto the Reports Feed
