Table of Contents

Executive Summary

E.1 "Thin" Batteries, Medical Equipment, Battery Backups and the Internet of Things
E.1.1 Changes Since Last Year
E.1.2 The Internet of Things: A High-Risk Market
E.1.3 Battery Back-Up and Medical Markets: Safer and Smaller
E.1.4 Other Markets: OEMs Choice and Integration
E.2 Competitive Technologies and Symbiotic Technologies
E.2.1 The Lessons from Button Batteries
E.2.2 Energy Harvesting: Friend and/or Foe
E.2.3 Battery Chemistries of the Future?
E.3 Five Firms to Watch in the Thin-Film and Printable Battery Business
E.3.1 Blue Spark: Battery Integration
E.3.2 Cymbet: Power for ICs
E.3.3 Infinite Power Solutions: Power for the Intelligence Community and More
E.3.4 Power Paper: Patches and Batteries
E.3.5 Solicore: Real Customers and Real Manufacturing
E.3.6 Functional Printing Firms and Printable Batteries
E.4 Strategic Options in the Thin-Film and Printable Battery Space
E.4.1 Thin Batteries and Disposable Electronics
E.4.2 Taking the High Road: Batteries for High-End Products
E.4.3 Batteries and the Joys of Partnering
E.5 Summary of Eight-Year Forecasts for Thin-Film and Printable Batteries
E.5.1 Price Points and Pricing Strategies
E.5.2 Forecast Summary

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 Background to this Report
1.1.1 Thin-Film and Printable Batteries: What Are They Good For?
1.1.2 Cost Problems and Cost Strategies
1.1.3 The Business Case for Printable Batteries
1.1.4 Thin-Film Battery Chemistries, Materials and Technological Alternatives
1.1.5 TF/Printable Battery Strategies and Changing Applications
1.1.6 The Future
1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology of this Report
1.4 Plan of this Report

Chapter Two: Evolution of Thin-Film and Printable Battery Technology

2.1 What are Thin-Film Batteries?
2.2 Thin-Film Battery Chemistries
2.2.1 Lithium Chemistries for Thin-Film Batteries
2.2.2 LiPON Electrolyte for Thin-Film Batteries
2.3 Evolution of Manufacturing Technology for Thin-Film and Printable Batteries
2.3.1 Deposition and Sputtering
2.3.2 The Joys and Challenges of Printing Batteries
2.3.3 Printable Battery Chemistries
2.4 Comparative Performance Assessment of Existing Thin-Film Battery Chemistries
2.4.1 Form Factor and Weight
2.4.2 Charge Retention and Recharge Times
2.4.3 Power Density and Generation Capabilities
2.4.4 Substrate Flexibility
2.4.5 Operating Temperature
2.4.6 Lifetime
2.4.7 Safety and Environmental Friendliness
2.5 Technological Alternatives to Thin-Film/Printable Batteries
2.5.1 Button and Coin Batteries: Today's Alternative
2.5.2 Induction: Competition at the Margin
2.5.3 Organic and Thin-Film Photovoltaics
2.5.4 Thin-Film and Printable Fuel Cells
2.5.5 Energy Harvesting as an Alternative and Complement to Thin-Film Batteries
2.6 Biomaterials, Nanomaterials and Radioisotope Batteries
2.6.1 Nanomaterials in Thin Batteries
2.6.2 Biomaterials, Biothermal Energy and "Thin" Batteries
2.6.3 Radioisotope Batteries
2.7 Key Points Made in this Chapter

Chapter Three: Applications and Forecasts for Thin-Film and Printable Batteries

3.1 Introduction: No Killer Apps for "Thin" Batteries
3.2 Thin Power for RFID, Smart Packaging and Other Retail Industry Applications
3.2.1 Active RFID
3.2.2 Semi-active/BAP RFID
3.2.3 Printable Batteries and Printable RFID
3.2.4 Powering Smart Packaging with Thin Batteries
3.2.5 Eight-Year Forecasts of Thin-Film and Printable Batteries for RFID and Smart Packaging
3.2.6 Electronic Shelf Labels/Smart Shelves and Thin Batteries
3.2.7 Eight-Year Forecasts of Thin-Film and Printable Batteries for Electronic Shelf Labels
3.3 Thin Batteries for Smartcards and Security Applications
3.3.1 Smartcards and Battery Power
3.3.2 Biometric ID and Other Access Devices
3.3.3 Batteries for Powered Cards
3.3.4 Eight-Year Forecast of Thin-Film and Printable Batteries for the Smartcard Sector
3.4 Thin-Film and Printable Batteries in Sensing and Related Applications
3.4.1 Wireless Sensor Networks
3.4.2 Large-Area Sensors
3.4.3 Military Sensors
3.4.4 Labs-on-a-Chip and Diagnostic Devices
3.4.5 Eight-Year Forecast of Thin-Film and Printable Batteries for Sensor Networks
3.5 Thin Batteries for Medical and Cosmetic Devices
3.5.1 Implantable Devices
3.5.2 Patches, Bandages and Batteries
3.5.3 Eight-Year Forecasts of Thin-Film and Printable Batteries for Medical Applications: Implants and Patches
3.6 Thin Batteries in Semiconductor and Computer Industry Applications
3.6.1 Battery-Backed-Up Computer Memory and Clocks
3.6.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of Thin-Film and Printable Batteries for Semiconductor/Computer Applications
3.7 Thin Batteries in Greetings Cards, Games, Toys and Other Novelties
3.8 A Note on Thin-Film Batteries and Electric Cars
3.9 Eight-Year Forecast of Thin-Film Battery Market by Application
3.10 Eight-Year Forecast of Thin-Film and Printable Battery Powered Products
3.11 Eight-Year Forecast of Thin-Film and Printable Batteries by Chemistry
3.12 Key Points Made in this Chapter

Chapter Four: Profiles of Leading Thin Battery Firms

4.1 Thin-Film Battery Producers
4.2 Biophan
4.2.1 NanoMarkets Assessment of Biophan
4.3 Blue Spark Technologies
4.3.1 Company Background: Early Printable Battery Technologies
4.3.2 Blue Spark, RFID and Beyond: Applications for Blue Sparks Batteries
4.3.3 NanoMarkets Assessment of Blue Spark
4.4 Cymbet
4.4.1 Company Background: More than $50 Million in Investment So Far
4.4.2 EnerChip: Thin-Film with Integrated Energy Management
4.4.3 Applications: ICs and Sensors Mostly
4.4.4 Alliances and Funding: Some Big Names in the Mix
4.4.5 NanoMarkets Assessment of Cymbet
4.5 Enable IPC
4.5.1 Company Background
4.5.2 Enable IPCs Microbatteries: Focus on Nano-Cathodes
4.5.3 Applications and the Need for Partners
4.5.4 NanoMarkets Assessment of Enable IPC
4.6 Enfucell
4.6.1 Company Background: Paper Batteries and Low Levels of Funding
4.6.2 SoftBattery: Batteries on Paper
4.6.3 Applications Targeted: The Usual Stuff
4.6.4 NanoMarkets Assessment of Enfucell
4.7 Excellatron
4.7.1 Company Background: Its About Manufacturing
4.7.2 Types of Batteries Produced: PECVD and Lithium Air Diversification
4.7.3 NanoMarkets Assessment of Excellatron
4.8 Front Edge Technology
4.8.1 Company Background: From Diamonds to Batteries
4.8.2 Types of Batteries Produced: NanoEnergy
4.8.3 Partnerships: APSI and STMicro
4.8.4 NanoMarkets Assessment of FET
4.9 Geomatec
4.9.1 Geomatecs Rechargeable Battery and its Applications
4.9.2 NanoMarkets Assessment of Geomatec
4.10 Infinite Power Solutions
4.10.1 Company Background: Growing Capacity + Energy Harvesting
4.10.2 Thinergy: Products and Technology
4.10.3 Costs and Energy Harvesting Business Case
4.10.4 Applications Targeted: Sensors and the Intelligence Community
4.10.5 Partnerships: Lockheed Martin, Arrow and the CIA
4.10.6 NanoMarkets Assessment of IPS
4.11 ITN Energy Systems
4.12 NEC
4.12.1 Company Background: Organic Radical Compound Batteries
4.12.2 Types of Batteries Produced and Recent Improvements
4.12.3 NanoMarkets Assessment of NEC
4.13 Oak Ridge Micro-Energy
4.13.1 Company Background: ORME Improves on ORNL
4.13.2 Types of Batteries Produced: Technology Improvements
4.13.3 NanoMarkets Assessment of ORME
4.14 Planar Energy Devices
4.14.1 Company Background: Not Really Thin
4.14.2 Types of Batteries Produced and SPEED Manufacturing Process
4.15 Power Paper
4.15.1 Company Background: From Batteries to Patches
4.15.2 Type of Batteries Produced: All Printed
4.15.3 Applications Targeted: Patches and Lights
4.15.4 Customers, Partners and Spinoffs
4.15.5 NanoMarkets Assessment of Power Paper
4.16 prelonic technologies
4.16.1 Company Background: Out of Nanoident
4.16.2 Types of Batteries Produced and Printing Technology Used: R2R
4.16.3 Applications Targeted and Assessment of Business Strategy: Kwizzcard
4.16.4 NanoMarkets Assessment of prelonic
4.17 Rocket Electric
4.17.1 Company Background: Batteries from Korea
4.17.2 Type of Batteries Produced and Printing Technology Used at Rocket
4.17.3 NanoMarkets Assessment of Rocket
4.18 Solicore
4.18.1 Company Background: Printed and Solid State?
4.18.2 Types of Batteries Produced and Manufacturing Process: Flexion
4.18.3 Applications, Customers and Partners: Mostly Cards
4.18.4 NanoMarkets Assessment of Solicore
4.19 Ultralife
4.20 Varta and the GREENBAT Project
4.21 VoltaFlex
4.22 Printable Battery and Fuel Cell Development at VTT
4.22.1 Printable Batteries
4.22.2 Fuel Cells

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List of Exhibits

Exhibit E-1: Thin-Film Lithium Battery Chemistries
Exhibit E-2: Worldwide Market for Thin-Film/Printable Batteries by Application ($ Millions)
Exhibit E-3L: Worldwide Market for Specifically Printable Batteries by Application ($ Millions)
Exhibit 2-1: Lithium Battery Constructions
Exhibit 2-2: Structure of Power Papers Battery Technology
Exhibit 2-3: Comparison of Battery Size for Selected Commercial Batteries
Exhibit 2-4: Operating Temperatures for Selected Thin-Film/Printable Batteries
Exhibit 2-5: IEC 60086-3 Specs
Exhibit 3-1: Thin-Film and Printable Batteries Market: RFID and Smart Packaging Applications
Exhibit 3-2: Thin-Film and Printable Batteries Market: Smart Shelf/ESL Display Applications
Exhibit 3-3: Thin-film and Printable Batteries Market: Smartcard Applications
Exhibit 3-4: Thin-film and Printable Batteries Market: Sensor Applications
Exhibit 3-5: Thin-Film and Printable Batteries Market: Implants
Exhibit 3-6: Thin-Film and Printable Battery Markets: Medical and Cosmetic Device Applications
Exhibit 3-7: Thin-Film and Printable Batteries Market: Semiconductor Market
Exhibit 3-8: Worldwide Markets for Thin-Film and Printable Batteries by Application ($ Millions)
Exhibit 3-9: Worldwide Markets for Specifically Printable Batteries by Application ($ Millions)
Exhibit 3-10: Worldwide Market for Products Powered by Thin-Film and Printable Batteries
Exhibit 3-11: Worldwide Market for Thin-Film and Printable Batteries by Battery Chemistry
Exhibit 4-1: Blue Spark Technologies' Battery Products
Exhibit 4-2: Timeline of Enable IPC Accomplishments
Exhibit 4-3: Power Paper Partners