Table of Contents

Executive Summary

E.1 What's Changed Since Last Year?
E.1.1 The Economy and Silver Inks
E.1.2 Silver Prices and Silver Ink Economics
E.2 Thick-Film Silver: Established Market
E.2.1 Growth Opportunities for Thick-Film Silver
E.3 Emerging Silver Materials: The Next Generation
E.3.1 Nanosilver: Enhanced Properties and Inkjet Ready
E.3.2 Silver Inks for Transparent Conductive Films: Window of Opportunity
E.4 Where the Money Is: High-Growth Applications for Silver Ink
E.4.1 Opportunities in Photovoltaics: Something for Every Kind of Silver
E.4.2 Opportunities in RFID: Is Silver Cheap Enough?
E.4.3 Opportunities in Lighting and Displays
E.4.4 Opportunities in Sensors
E.5 Opportunities for Silver Paste and Ink Firms
E.5.1 A Word About Copper
E.6 Firms to Watch
E.7 Summary of Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Markets

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 Background to this Report
1.1.1 Printed Silver: Well Worth It In Many Places
1.1.2 A Changing Landscape: Emerging Materials and Emerging Applications
1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology of this Report
1.4 Plan of this Report

Chapter Two: Silver Materials for Printed Electronics

2.1 Silver Commodity Markets: Supply, Demand, and Pricing
2.2 Thick-Film Silver Pastes
2.2.1 Containing Costs with Thick-Film Pastes: Materials and Methods
2.3 Nanosilver Inks and Pastes
2.3.1 Nanosilver's Advantages Over Thick-Film
2.3.2 Inkjet and Other Printing Processes and Formulations
2.3.3 Silver Nanopastes as an Alternative to Thick-Film Silver
2.3.4 Pricing of Nanosilver
2.4 Hybrids, Alloys, and Composites of Silver
2.4.1 Alloys for Improved Cost and Performance
2.4.2 Composites: Another Path to Higher Performance
2.5 Printed Silver and Low-Temperature Processing
2.6 Silver in Transparent Conductors
2.7 Environmental, Health, and Safety Concerns with Silver Inks
2.7.1 Public Concerns with Nanosilver
2.7.2 Lead in Silver Inks
2.8 Key Points Made in this Chapter

Chapter Three: Silver Ink Applications and Markets

3.1 Photovoltaics
3.1.1 Crystalline Silicon PV and Thick-Film Screen Printing
3.1.2 TFPV and OPV: Grids, Reflectors, and Transparent Electrodes
3.2 Displays
3.2.1 Printed Silver for Backplanes
3.2.2 Frontplanes and Transparent Electrodes
3.2.3 Silver and Plasma Displays
3.3 OLED Lighting
3.3.1 Bus Bars
3.3.2 Transparent Electrodes
3.3.3 What About EL Lighting?
3.4 RFID
3.4.1 Silver for RFID Antennas and Interconnects
3.4.2 Is Silver Too Expensive for RFID?
3.5 Sensors
3.5.1 Can a Fragmented Market be Accessed Profitably?
3.6 Traditional Thick-Film Applications for Printed Silver
3.7 Key Points Made in this Chapter

Chapter Four: Silver Ink Suppliers

4.1 Advanced Nano Products (ANP)
4.2 Bayer MaterialScience
4.3 CIMA NanoTech
4.4 Creative Materials
4.5 DuPont
4.6 Ferro
4.7 Five Star Technologies
4.8 Henkel Electronics
4.9 InkTec
4.10 Methode Development Company
4.11 NanoMas
4.12 NovaCentrix
4.13 Parelec
4.14 PChem Associates
4.15 Sun Chemical
4.16 Other Suppliers

Chapter Five: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink and Paste Markets

5.1 Forecasting Methodology
5.1.1 Data Sources
5.1.2 Scope of Forecast
5.1.3 Alternative Scenarios and Other Factors Taken Into Consideration
5.1.4 Pricing of Silver and Silver Inks
5.2 Forecasts of Silver Ink and Paste Markets by Application
5.2.1 Photovoltaics
5.2.2 Displays
5.2.3 Solid-State Lighting
5.2.4 RFID
5.2.5 Sensors
5.2.6 Traditional Thick-Film Applications
5.3 Forecasts of Silver Ink Markets by Ink Type
5.3.1 Screen Printing with Conventional and Nano Silver Pastes
5.3.2 Jetted Inks
5.3.3 Inks for Flexo and Gravure: Conventional and Nano
5.3.4 Inks for Forming Transparent Conductive Coatings
5.4 Summary of Market Forecasts
Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in this Report
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