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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report “LED Phosphor Markets – 2012” Set for May 2012 Release

Published: May 14, 2012 Category: Electronics and Devices OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today has announced the addition of a new report to its publication schedule titled "LED Phosphor Markets – 2012" (Nano-541) that will be released the week of May 28th. The report is available at pre-publication rates through May 29th. For additional information about the report people can visit the NanoMarkets website: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/led_phosphor_markets_2012

About the Report:

In some countries, LEDs are expected to be the dominant general lighting technology by the end of the decade. The primary driver for this transition is the high efficiency and long lifetimes of LED lighting and a major reason that many governments around the world are promoting their use through the regulatory process.

Nevertheless, this shift in technology use has not been entirely welcomed by consumers, primarily because LEDs often render colors poorly compared with the traditional incandescent bulb. Another concern is the warmth or coolness of LED light, which is not always judged attractive by consumers. Also, variations in LED color temperature vary with viewing angle, sometimes making the experience of being in an LED -lighted room less than satisfactory.

Most LED manufacturers now see these issues as being critical to the long-term success of LED lighting creating a major opportunity for firms making the LED lighting phosphors that control the color rendering and color temperatures of the LEDs. Makers of phosphor materials and related products can expect the same high growth that the LED lighting market is enjoying. In addition, NanoMarkets believes that the LED lighting market is still open to new kinds of proprietary phosphor solutions, with the potential for phosphor firms to build their brands and create protectable IP.

This new NanoMarkets report provides an in-depth analysis and forecast of the LED phosphor market in the next eight years. It builds off the extensive experience that NanoMarkets has in the area of solid-state lighting and related materials.

This report examines the latest market strategies, products and technical developments in the area of LED phosphors. We identify how performance improvements are likely to help grow addressable markets for phosphors, with an especial focus on general illumination, outdoor/street lighting and backlighting and where the opportunities are to be found to make money in the LED phosphor market.

The report also includes NanoMarkets’ assessments of the strategies of leading firms active in the LED phosphors space. And, as always with NanoMarkets reports, this report contains granular eight-year forecasts of the inorganic LED phosphors shipments in volume and value terms, with breakouts by type of phosphor. This report is required reading, not just for strategy planners at phosphor firms, but for those throughout the solid-state lighting industry.

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report “BIPV Roofing Markets -2012” Set for May 2012 Release

Published: May 14, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today has announced the addition of a new report on building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) to its publication schedule titled “BIPV Roofing Markets - 2012” (Nano-543) that will be released the week of May 28th. The report is available at pre-publication rates through May 29th. For additional information about the report interested persons can visit the NanoMarkets website at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/bipv_roofing_markets_2012 .

The firm has also announced that it will be releasing a report on the BIP encapsulation market in May and has also released a related report on BIPV glass market in February of this year. Information about these reports is also available on the NanoMarkets website at http://www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

BIPV offers both the PV industry and the building products industry a way out of their current economic plights. For PV firms, BIPV provides a product strategy geared to adding value to products. For the building products industry, BIPV represents a new line of products that will enable construction firms to add saleable features to buildings of all kinds.

While all this is true of all BIPV products, there is a natural migration path from today’s rooftop PV panels to BIPV roofing. With this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this report, which identifies and quantifies the market opportunities for BIPV roofing.

The report discusses a roadmap for BIPV roofing in which business revenues are generated initially by simple overlay products and then by conventional rigid and flexible BIPV roofing products and finally from fully integrated products. The report also shows how the performance of BIPV roofing is expected to evolve with a special focus on lifetime requirements and the materials that will be used both for substrates and absorber layers.

This report also includes extensive forecasts of the BIPV roofing market in terms of wattage, area covered and revenues generated. Breakouts are provided by type of building, type of BIPV roofing and key materials used. In addition, we project the nations and regions that will generate the most revenues for BIPV roofing and the breakouts of the BIPV roofing market by retrofit and new construction. As usual with NanoMarkets reports, this report also includes a detailed assessment of the strategies of the leading firms currently supplying BIPV roofing products.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the photovoltaics sector for more than six years.

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of Report Analyzing Market Strategies of Leading OLED Lighting Firms

Published: May 08, 2012 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of its latest report on OLED lighting titled “OLED Lighting: Companies, Products and Strategies – 2012.” This report shows that OLED lighting industry has come a long way in the last two years; OLED luminaires are available at affordable prices and a surprisingly large number of major electronics and lighting companies have developed plans to take OLED lighting into the mainstream general lighting market. Performance criteria for OLED lighting are close to acceptable for many real world applications. NanoMarkets continues to project the OLED luminaire market as $6.4 billion by 2017.

This report analyzes in depth the product/market strategies of leaders of the OLED space including ; Acuity Brands, AUO/Lextar, Blackbody, First-o-Lite, GE, Kaneka, Konica Minolta, LG, Lumiotec, Mitsubishi, Moser Baer, NEC, Novaled, Osram, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sumitomo, Visionox and WAC Lighting. The report also provides insight into the strategies of smaller and emerging companies in this space.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/oled_lighting_companies_products_and_strategies_2012

The firm recently released its forecast of the OLED lighting global market. Details of that report are available here: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/nanomarkets_oled_lighting_market_forecast_q2_2012

Highlights from the Report:

One of the main selling features claimed for OLED lighting is “energy efficiency.” Two years ago, OLED lighting wasn’t very efficient, offering around 20 lm/W. Today, it is much closer to CFLs and LEDs as OLED lighting panels now routinely reach 45 lm/W to 65 lm/W. Prominent OLED lighting firms are confident that they will soon offer panels in the 100-150 lm/W range, which would then enable OLED lighting to rapidly penetrate general lighting markets. Firms that have announced superior efficiency performance in product roadmaps include Panasonic, LG and Philips.

OLED lights already compete with CFLs on lifetimes but remain challenged by LEDs. Still OLED lighting lifetimes continue to improve rapidly. Philips believes that OLED lighting panels will reach 40,000 hours by 2018. LG says it can reach this by 2015.

Firms in the OLED lighting space see office lighting as an early revenue generator. For this to happen, panels must be much larger than they are today. Major OLED lighting firms expect progress in this area soon. The often-conservative Philips plans 1 m x 1 m panels by 2018; Panasonic will have 600 x 600-mm panels by 2019. The Korean firm, Jusung Engineering has already built a 730 x 920-mm panel, although not as a commercial product.

There is a revival of interest in solution processing as a way of producing low-cost OLED lighting panels to profitably meet the price points of general lighting. Although GE’s efforts in this area are behind schedule, Sumitomo's announcement that it is making a strong effort to print OLED lighting panels has given new life to printing OLED lighting panels. The Pioneer/Mitsubishi alliance is also developing a printing process for some layers of its panel.

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NanoMarkets Releases Updated Analysis of Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Market

Published: May 08, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of an updated market analysis and forecast for the organic photovoltaics market, “Opportunities in the Organic Photovoltaics Market – 2012.” In the report NanoMarkets says that while the total market value of OPV modules at the application level has the potential to grow from about $90 million in 2012 to $215 million by 2015 and to over $700 million by 2019, the industry is facing a make or break scenario within the next two years.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/opportunities_in_the_organic_photovoltaics_market_2012 .

The firm recently released a report on the dye sensitized cell PV market in late April of this year. Details of that report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/dye_sensitized_cell_markets_2012

About the Report:

This report is designed to help both materials and panel/product manufacturers identify the available opportunities for generating revenue from OPV. It includes detailed eight-year forecasts for volumes, in power output and/or area terms and revenues, resulting from sales both of the materials used to manufacture OPV modules, as well as the revenues from sales of the OPV modules themselves. The OPV materials forecasts are broken out by material type – donors, acceptors, HTLs/EBLs, electrodes, substrates, and encapsulation technologies – and the OPV modules forecasts broken out by PV application – portable charging, embedded electronics, BIPV/BAPV, AIPV, and so on.

The report also contains a discussion of some of the key players in the DSC marketplace, including Konarka, Heliatek, Solarmer, New Energy Technologies, BASF, Agfa, IMEC, Solvay, Global Photonic Energy, Solarpress, Eight19, Mitsubishi, Polyera, Heraeus, Merck, and others.

From the Report:

The OPV market continues to struggle to get off the ground. The last year has produced a few bright spots – some new investments, some modest performance enhancements, additional demonstration and/or niche product launches, etc. – but the industry still needs a big breakthrough, or at least a clear path toward a larger-area or larger-scale application that can take OPV to the next level commercially.

The value propositions that have been claimed for OPV continue to get harder and harder to make: efficiencies are still very low in commercial products, costs are still very high, flexible encapsulation is still a problem, and a big market pull for portable, small-scale charging has not materialized. Meanwhile, development and commercialization of OPV’s closest “third generation” competitor, DSC PV, has outpaced that of OPV, especially in the larger-area BIPV and other grid-connected sectors. BIPV and related applications are important because they offer large enough volumes for OPV to break out commercially, recover the already-sunk investment costs, enable cost-reducing economies of scale, and establish long-term viability for the OPV industry.

NanoMarkets thinks that time for OPV may be running out. OPV firms must now move quickly or get left behind in these larger markets. We believe that the next two years will be the years in which OPV must finally prove itself in the PV market, both from a technical and cost perspective, or be relegated to permanent “specialty” status and an addressable market of no more than a few megawatts (MW) at best.

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NanoMarkets Upcoming Reports on Organic (OPV) and Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) Markets

Published: April 25, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry Analyst firm NanoMarkets has added two new reports to the firms schedule titled “Opportunities in the Organic Photovoltaics Market – 2012” and “BIPV Encapsulation Markets – 2012.” The reports will be available in May of 2012 and continue the firm’s coverage of the increasingly challenging PV market. Details of the reports are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net.

The reports follow recent releases on dye sensitized cell (DSC) photovoltaics and BIPV glass markets.

Opportunities in the Organic Photovoltaics Market – 2012

The OPV market continues to struggle to get off the ground. The last year has produced a few bright spots – some new investments, some modest performance enhancements, additional demonstration and/or niche product launches, etc. – but the industry still needs a big breakthrough, or at least a clear path toward a large-area, large-scale application that can take OPV to the next level commercially.

Unfortunately, the value propositions that have been claimed for OPV in the past continue to get harder and harder to make: costs are still very high, flexible encapsulation is still a problem, and a big market pull for portable, small-scale charging has not materialized. Meanwhile, development and commercialization of DSC photovoltaics has outpaced that of OPV, and now it looks as though time for OPV may be running out.

In this report NanoMarkets looks at the changing prospects for commercialization of OPV in off-grid applications like solar chargers, as well as emerging – and larger-scale – opportunities for OPV in the BIPV market, particularly in BIPV glass and flexible BIPV applications. We also pay particular attention to the activities of the key OPV firms, and we examine the shifting market prospects brought on by technical achievements, commercialization efforts, demand patterns, and competition from other technologies. Based on these analyses, we have also updated our eight-year forecasts for both OPV materials and modules.

BIPV Encapsulation Markets – 2012

As the solar industry turns towards BIPV there will be a growing opportunity for the encapsulation business. Flexibility is often required in BIPV and this means that manufacturers of BIPV often have an immediate need for an effective flexible PV encapsulation system. In addition, as monolithic integration becomes more common, specialist encapsulation systems are required to protect the relatively delicate CIGS, OPV and DSC absorber materials that are commonly used in such products.

This report identifies and quantifies the emerging market for encapsulation systems and materials in the BIPV market. It investigates both how the leading suppliers of encapsulation products are viewing BIPV as a market for their products and the current and future demand for encapsulation from the BIPV industry itself. This NanoMarkets report includes a granular eight-year forecast of the BIPV encapsulation markets and assessments of the leading product/market strategies being adopted in this business.

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NanoMarkets Says Dye Sensitized Cell (DSC) PV Market to Expand Greatly in the Next Several Years

Published: April 23, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of its latest report on the DSC market titled, “Markets for Dye-Sensitized Cell Photovoltaics 2012.” NanoMarkets believes that even as the overall PV industry is reeling from rapidly declining panel prices, cutbacks in government support, and failing firms, DSC is a technology with solid growth prospects.

In the report NanoMarkets estimates that the total market value of DSC modules at the application level will grow from about $40 million in 2012 to over $500 million by 2015. Then, after building-integrated PV (BIPV) applications for DSC PV take off, the firm anticipates that the market value will exceed $4.4 billion by 2019. At the same time, the market for DSC materials is expected to grow from a value of just under $12 million in 2012 to over $1.2 billion by 2019.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/dye_sensitized_cell_markets_2012. Members of the press can request a full executive summary from the report.

NanoMarkets is also set to release an update to its coverage of the organic photovoltaic (OPV) market within the next two weeks of this release. Details of that report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/opportunities_in_the_organic_photovoltaics_market_2012

About the Report:

In the past two years, the dye sensitized cell (DSC) market has come of age and has moved out of its R&D phase. The performance of DSCs is now comparable with amorphous silicon PV, but with much more potential than a-Si for performance improvements. DSC’s also offers an ability to be deployed on flexible substrates and perform under non-peak insolation.

This report provides an in-depth market analysis of recent developments in DSCs, examining the meaning of the latest products, strategies and technical developments. We identify how performance improvements are likely to help grow addressable markets for DSC and where these new markets are to be found. Specifically, we examine the potential for DSC in the BIPV sector and how DSC is likely to do in a world in which solar energy is not the hot topic that it was a few years ago.

The report also appraises the commercial significance of the developments that have taken place in the DSC over the past year such as the attempts to reduce the cost of dyes and electrodes. And, as always with NanoMarkets reports, this report also contains granular forecasts of DSC panel and materials shipments in volume and value terms.

Lastly, the report contains a discussion of some of the key players in the DSC marketplace, including 3GSolar, G24 Innovations, NLAB Solar, Dyesol, Oxford Photovoltaics, Solaronix, Solarprint, BASF, Merck, Umicore, Pilkington/NSG, Tata Steel, Everlight Chemical, Timo Technology, EPFL, Fujikura, and Peccell.

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report “OLED Lighting: Companies, Products and Strategies - 2012”

Published: April 16, 2012 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced that it will be releasing a new report the week of April 23 titled "OLED Lighting: Companies, Products and Strategies – 2012". This NanoMarkets report will be essential reading for marketers, corporate planners, investors and others, who need to understand the inner workings of the leading OLED lighting firms. It will help identify the likely winners and losers in the emerging OLED lighting space and will also provide a perspective on the activities of the active OLED lighting firms told from NanoMarkets’ insider perspective. A sample from the report is available for download from the firm’s website at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/oled_lighting_companies_products_and_strategies_2012

The firm recently released an update from its ongoing market forecast of the global OLED lighting market in late March. Details from that report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/nanomarkets_oled_lighting_market_forecast_q2_2012

About the Report:

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the product, market and manufacturing strategies of all the current major players in the OLED lighting space. Included in the coverage of this report are both OLED lighting panel and luminaire makers such as:

Acuity Brands, AU Optronics, Benwirth Licht, Blackbody, Fujitec, General Electric, Kaneka, Konica Minolta, LEDON OLED, Thorn and Zumtobel, LG, Lumiotec, Modistech, Moser Baer (+ UDC), NEC Lighting, Osram, Panasonic Electric Works, Philips, Pioneer/Mitsubishi, PPML, Samsung, Sumitomo, Visionox, and WAC Lighting.

We have also added a section that shows the main trends in the evolution of the OLED industry that are revealed by our analysis. These trends cover both supply chain and product design issues.

The comprehensive coverage of the OLED lighting industry provided in this report sets out how NanoMarkets sees the leading OLED lighting firms evolving and We comment on current product ranges and suggest how these will evolve in the future at each of the OLED lighting firms included. And we also examine how these firms are building alliances with other firms in the supply chain and where that might lead them.

In addition, we look at each OLED lighting supplier’s manufacturing strategy and technology evolution. This analysis takes into the consideration the many new manufacturing plants that are being built around the world to produce OLED lighting and how the various approaches to manufacturing that have been proposed for OLED lighting are shaping up in the real world.

Firms included in this report include the largest lighting and electronics firms – such as Philips and LG – that are pouring financial and marketing resources into OLED lighting and who clearly expect large revenues to result from their activities over the next five years. It also includes luminaire firms that plan to take OLED lighting to the next stage, beyond the luxury lighting and designer kits to mid-range luminaires designed for office and professional lighting.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets is a globally recognized name in market analysis and forecasting of opportunities within advanced materials and emerging energy and electronics markets. The firm has covered the OLED lighting space since 2006 and has produced numerous reports, articles and papers detailing the market’s evolution.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net/oled_lighting for a full listing of the firm’s OLED lighting and materials market coverage.

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of New Report on Metal Oxide Thin Film Transistors (TFTs)

Published: April 16, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of its new report on emerging opportunities for metal oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs). In the new report, which is titled, “Metal Oxide Thin-Film Transistor Markets,” NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for display backplanes based on oxide TFTs will reach $2.1 billion by 2017.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/metal_oxide_thin_film_transistor_markets

About the Report:

This report shows how oxide TFTs will become an important enabling technology for the display industry providing an improved path to lower power consumption, higher refresh rates and other capabilities that are increasingly valued by display makers. NanoMarkets projects that oxide TFT backplanes will offer these capabilities at a reasonable cost and with scalable manufacturing processes. Oxide TFT backplanes are seen by NanoMarkets as an improvement over the common amorphous silicon based backplanes which are reaching their performance limits and also over the newer LTPS approach which is expensive and limited in scalability.

This report includes detailed eight-year forecasts of oxide TFT backplanes in both value and volume terms, with breakouts by type of display (LCD and AMOLED) and display application (smartphones, televisions, tablets and PCs). It also contains analysis of the leading firms active in the oxide TFT space and their product/market strategies, including AUO, CBRITE, Hewlett Packard, Jusung Engineering, JX Nippon Mining & Metals, LG, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toppan Printing, Toshiba and Ulvac Materials.

From the Report:

In the coming battle between LCD and AMOLED technologies for dominance of the high-performance display market, NanoMarkets notes that firms supplying oxide TFT-based backplanes will assume the role of “arms dealers” supplying both camps.

LCD makers will ultimately turn to oxide TFTs because oxide TFTs can offer better performance than LTPS at a much lower cost which will help LCD address the onslaught of AMOLEDs. And although LCD firms are notoriously reluctant to adopt new materials, NanoMarkets says that even quite small penetration by oxide TFTs in this sector will generate large revenues. In the report NanoMarkets expects revenues from oxide TFTs sold into the LCD sector to reach $ 1.9 billion by 2017.

Meanwhile, NanoMarkets projects that oxide TFTs will become a major enabling technology for AMOLED displays, especially large AMOLED TVs. While the commercialization of such displays has been frustrated by the lack of an effective backplane technology, oxide TFTs bring small transistor size to the table thus allowing more space for emission from the OLED; low cost; and good uniformity. Given the impressive features of oxide TFTs, oxide TFTs will penetrate the AMOLED market quite quickly.

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NanoMarkets Issues New Report on ESD and Antistatic Materials and Products in the Electronics Sector

Published: March 26, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of its latest report on ESD protection materials for the photovoltaics industry titled, “Markets for ESD and Antistatic Protection Materials and Products in Electronics 2012. In the report NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for ESD protection products in electronics applications will grow at a CAGR of about 13% from a value of about $1.4 billion in 2012 to about $3.4 billion in 2019.

Additional details about the report are available at:www.nanomarkets.net

About the Report:

This report is designed to help manufacturers of ESD protection materials identify both the “where” and “how much” for available opportunities in the electronics and semiconductor manufacturing sectors. Thus, this latest NanoMarkets report includes detailed eight-year forecasts of both ESD basic materials – conventional carbon, metals, metal compounds, carbon nanomaterials, conductive polymers, and other organics – and ESD products by application and material source. It also contains a discussion of some of the key suppliers and their product/market strategies, including Agfa, Heraeus, Hyperion Catalysis, 3M, RTP, Nanocyl, Bayer MaterialScience, SciCron, and many others.

From the Report:

NanoMarkets continues to see important new opportunities emerging in 2012-2013 for suppliers of ESD and antistatic protection materials including the growth of pervasive computing and electronics in everyday life, which steadily increases the addressable market for ESD products, and shrinking circuitry, which drives the need for higher performance ESD materials. In addition, a shift is occurring in the display market that pits LCD technology against newer technologies like OLEDs, which may have very different needs for ESD protection.

These emerging patterns of demand for ESD products are occurring at a time when there are also new developments in materials, many of are related to the rise of nanomaterials.

NanoMarkets projects that nanometals, graphene and carbon nanotubes will begin to account for a sizeable part of the ESD materials market in the not-too-distant future. ESD products based on carbon nanomaterials alone are expected to exceed $100 million in value by 2015.

Meanwhile, inherently conductive polymers will continue to make inroads into the larger ESD market, displacing currently used inexpensive – and often impermanent – materials; the value of ESD products based on ICPs is expected to exceed $100 million in 2017, driven largely by growth in low-cost/high-performance transparent ESD coatings.

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NanoMarkets Releases New Report on OLED Luminaire Market

Published: March 19, 2012 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of its latest report, “OLED Lighting Market Forecast Q2 2012.” In the report NanoMarkets presents its outlook on the OLED lighting sector with some notable changes since its last release in 2011. The firm notes concerns with the current economic situation in Europe which is a major center for OLED lighting as well as changes in manufacturing that will dampen prices in the short term but open the door to wider acceptance of the technology as OLED lighting efficiency, panel size and light output improvements bring the technology to the mainstream. NanoMarkets now expects that the total market for OLED lighting luminaires will reach approximately $6.3 billion in 2017.

Additional details about this and other OLED related reports are available at: http://www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

This report provides eight-year forecasts for OLED lighting in six different applications: purchases by lighting designers; luxury lighting; major installations in showrooms, tradeshows, etc.; residential lighting; commercial/industrial lighting; and automotive lighting. Forecasts are presented in both revenue terms ($ millions) and volume terms (units/square meters sold). In addition, the report contains qualitative forecasts of future opportunities for OLEDs in such areas as personal illumination products, signage, industrial lighting and novelty products.

The forecasts in this report are based on NanoMarkets’ insider understanding of OLED lighting demand patterns, but are backed up by matching projected demand against the plans of major OLED lighting panel suppliers to build manufacturing capacity. Among the firms discussed in this context are AUO, First-o-Lite, GE, Jusung Engineering, Kaneka, Konica Minolta, LG, Lumiotec, Moser Baer, NEC, Osram, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer/Mitsubishi, Samsung and Visionox.

From the Report:

While NanoMarkets sees the overall prospects for the OLED lighting market as remaining strong, we now expect to see a major decline in OLED prices in the next two years as mass production technologies start to be applied to this kind of lighting. This pricing trend is expected to dampen OLED lighting revenues for the next three years until OLED lighting efficiency, panel size and light output have improved to the point where OLED lighting is acceptable in mainstream—and mass market -- residential and business lighting markets.

In particular, NanoMarkets believes that OLED lighting has the potential to seriously compete with the standard fluorescent lighting panels widely used in offices through improved energy efficiency, lower costs and improved aesthetics. And by 2017 NanoMarkets expects that more than 75 percent of revenues for OLED luminaires will come from lighting for commercial and industrial buildings. In 2012, almost 90 percent of OLED sales for lighting applications will come from niche markets such as luxury lighting, large showroom installations and sales to lighting designers. But by 2017 that share will have fallen to under 1 percent.

NanoMarkets has lowered its penetration forecasts for OLED lighting compared to the forecasts it published in 2011 due to weaker than expected economic growth throughout the eight-year forecast period. NanoMarkets is particularly concerned about the impact of Europe’s ongoing monetary woes on the OLED lighting market. OLED lighting market is very Eurocentric with most of the important suppliers based in Europe and Europe’s importance to advanced lighting technology.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized worldwide leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind.

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NanoMarkets Releases New White Paper on Smart Lighting Markets

Published: March 15, 2012 Category: Electronics and Devices OLED Lighting

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it has published a new white paper that examines the current smart lighting systems market. In a recent NanoMarkets report titled, “Smart Lighting 2012” we have identified this space as potentially reaching $4.5 billion in revenues by 2016 driven by the quest to improve energy efficiency within buildings and homes and meet requirements brought about by government mandates.

However, NanoMarkets believes while the addressable market is substantial, there are no clear leaders in the smart lighting space and that furthermore, the product and market strategies currently being pursued by the industry are insufficient to capitalize on what is possible.

Persons interested in obtaining the paper may download it from the firm’s website at: http://www.nanomarkets.net/Downloads/SmartLighting.pdf

About the Report:

The NanoMarkets report, “Smart Lighting 2012” provides an analysis of the worldwide smart lighting market and builds on NanoMarkets’ extensive six-year experience of analyzing the solid-state lighting industry. The report shows how new value is being created in the lighting market by adding enhanced electronics and intelligent luminaires and how such product strategies will be able to build on the massive trend towards introducing CFLs, LEDs, OLEDs and other forms of energy efficient lighting.

But while energy efficiency is the major current driver for smart lighting, this report also discusses how NanoMarkets foresees the smart lighting market transcending energy efficiency and generating new revenues from improved aesthetics, and more comfortable and healthy lighting. The report focuses, in particular, on how also these opportunities will emerge within the OLED and LED lighting paradigms. But it also identifies the opportunities that smart lighting will create as it adopts more effective networking strategies and becomes part of a future “Internet of things” and Smart Grid.

Also included in this new report is an analysis of the smart lighting strategies of the firms that NanoMarkets expects to see as major players in the smart lighting space. This includes the major lighting and building automation firms, as well as the slew of new lighting control start-ups that have emerged in the past few years.

In adddition, this report provides an insider’s view on rapidly developing opportunities throughout the entire smart lighting supply chain including developments in the luminaire sector all the way down to the components level. For example, the report includes detailed coverage of where chip makers and sensor manufacturers will be able to derive the most benefit from the smart lighting “revolution.”

Also included in the report is a discussion of the likely evolution of smart lighting standards and their importance to smart lighting market development. In addition, there is an eight-year market forecast with breakouts by type of product and end user market segment.

See the NanoMarkets website at: (http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/smart_lighting_2012) for additional details.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the conductive coatings market in electronics for more than five years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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NanoMarkets Releases Transcripts from Firm’s Q&A Session on Flexible Electronic Substrates

Published: March 14, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it has posted the transcript from a recent conference call on flexible electronic substrates that the firm recently held. The call showcased findings from the firm’s recently released report, “Flexible Substrates Markets 2012.” In the report NanoMarkets projected that the total market for flexible substrates will grow to $1.2 billion by 2017. Persons interested in obtaining the transcript may download it from the firm’s website at: http://www.nanomarkets.net/Downloads/FLEXIBLESUBSTRATESQnA.pdf

About the Event:

On the call NanoMarkets presented findings from the firm's report, “Flexible Substrates Markets 2012.” The report's author, Katherine Derbyshire's and NanoMarkets principal analyst, Lawrence Gasman discussed the evolution of the flexible substrate market and where NanoMarkets sees the industry's opportunities unfolding over the coming years.

About the Report:

“Flexible Substrates Markets 2012” analyzes the opportunities for flexible substrates in a wide range of applications including displays, photovoltaics, sensors, and in a variety of roll-to-roll fabrication applications. Materials discussed in this report include metal sheets and foils, polyimide and PET, flexible glass, textiles and paper.

The report also discusses the strategies of some of the leading suppliers and users of these materials including include Ascent Solar, Corning, Dow Chemical, DuPont, DuPont Teijin, Dyesol, Kaneka, Nokia, Pilkington Glass, Samsung Schott and Tata Steel. It also includes detailed forecasts for the flexible plastic, metal and glass substrate materials in both volume and value terms, with breakouts by application, by material type, and by printing method.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the conductive coatings market in electronics for more than five years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report on OLED Lighting Markets Due in March of 2012

Published: March 08, 2012 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it will release a new round of market forecasts for the emerging OLED lighting sector. The results will be available the week of March 20th. The firm has recently issued related reports on OLED manufacturing capacity, OLED lighting materials markets and encapsulation and plans to release a new analysis of the product and market strategies of companies operating in the business during the month of April.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/nanomarkets_oled_lighting_market_forecast_q2_2012

About the Report:

In the past year OLED lighting markets and production infrastructure have evolved. For example, office lighting has become a key market target for OLED lighting, while other applications no longer command the interest they once did. At the same time, while some likely future mass producers of OLED lighting seem to be committing more resources, others seem to be failing in their efforts.

With all this in mind, this report provides NanoMarkets’ latest market forecasts for OLED lighting. Our company has been actively tracking the OLED lighting market for more than five years and this report represents a more detailed forecast than any we have ever produced before.

In this report, we consider the revenue potential for the OLED lighting applications that currently interest the OLED market the most. We think these have changed since last year and now comprise luxury consumer lighting, decorative lighting for large buildings and showrooms, office lighting, residential lighting and automotive lighting. Another change in this year’s report is that we have provided a much more detailed analysis of pricing trends in OLED lighting than ever before In particular, in addition to looking at pricing expectations of leading manufacturers, we have also examined the likely roadmaps for pricing by unit, luminance and square meter and how these three measures are likely to correspond.

We consider other prominent forecasts for this market including a worse-case scenario in which OLED lighting never succeeds in growing beyond the luxury lighting sector, along with some ultra-optimistic scenarios that have emerged from other more dubious sources.

The forecasts in this report are in value and volume (square meter) terms and are broken out by applications. We also consider how the OLED lighting market is likely to be shared among various major countries and regions as it evolves. Finally, we examine how our forecasts tie in with the emergence of OLED lighting manufacturing capacity, around the world.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of OLED lighting and has been covering the markets for such technologies sector for more than six years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Announces the Release of Latest Report on Silver in Photovoltaics Applications

Published: March 08, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of its latest report on smart windows, “Silver in Photovoltaics-2012.” In the report the firm projects that suppliers of silver inks and pastes face challenging times as the PV industry’s use of silver declines in the coming years. NanoMarkets’ new report finds that while the use of silver will increase in front electrodes, back electrodes and tabbing will require substantially less silver leading to a rather significant drop in overall demand.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/silver_in_photovoltaics_2012

About the Report:

“Silver in Photovoltaics – 2012” is the latest report from NanoMarkets in our ongoing coverage of materials and markets in the photovoltaics sector. In this report, NanoMarkets examines the changing opportunities for silver materials in the dynamic PV industry.

The report is designed to help silver suppliers to understand how changes in the PV industry will influence their sales. It considers how suppliers of silver materials to the PV industry can hold onto market share under the difficult circumstances that PV faces today: rapidly falling panel prices, huge pressures to continually reduce costs, and government subsidies under threat. It also considers these challenges in light of silver’s historically high – and likely to stay high – commodity price.

Taking into account these new dynamics, NanoMarkets identifies where opportunities are still available for silver in the PV sector and covers both conventional crystalline silicon PV and PV based on thin-film silicon, CdTe, CIGS, OPV, and DSC. The report includes coverage of established silver pastes and inks as well as newer materials based on nanomaterials, including the latest transparent nanosilver-based electrodes. It also examines alternative scenarios for silver in PV and provides an in depth discussion of materials challenges to silver in the PV sector, especially those presented by the use of copper and aluminum.

As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report contains detailed eight-year forecasts of the silver usage in the PV sector broken out by PV technology and how the silver is used within the PV cell itself. The forecasts are provided in both value and volume (ounces) terms. In addition, the report discusses the strategies of key firms to watch in this important sector.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of advanced materials and photovoltaics and has been covering the markets for such technologies sector for more than six years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Announces the Release of Latest Report on Smart Windows Market

Published: February 29, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of its latest report on smart windows, “Smart Windows Markets 2012.” In the report the firm analyzes the opportunities for smart windows including hot new technologies such as thermochromics, photochromics, PDLC and SPD. It also covers the established markets for retrofit window films and low-e glass,

The report also discusses the activities of some of the important firms in the smart windows space including: 3M, Asahi Glass, Beijing All Brilliant, Chiefway, Chromogenics, Citala, Commonwealth,Corning, DuPont, Garware, GE, Gentex, GlasNovations, Guardian Industries, Johnson Laminations, Materion, Mitsubishi, NSG/Pilkington, Pleotint, Polytron, Polytronix, PPG, Ravenbrick, Sage, Saint-Gobain, Schott, Sekisui, SKC Haas, Smart Glass, Soladigm, Solutia (Eastman Chemicals), Toray Plastics, Switch Materials, US e-Chromics and Zeledyne.

The report provides forecasts of all of the smart windows technologies and materials mentioned above for both the architectural and transportation sectors of the smart windows market, with breakouts by both market value and area covered, as well as by glass or film substrates.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/smart_windows_markets_2012

NanoMarkets has recently released related other related reports in the areas of BIPV glass, flexible glass, transparent conductors and conductive coatings.

From the Report:

NanoMarkets strongly believes that smart window technologies will grow significantly in the coming decade on the basis of their ability to improve energy efficiencies within both the architectural and transportation sectors. Beyond energy conservation, smart windows also offer improved aesthetics, functionality and margins for builders, manufacturers and materials suppliers.

Materials and specialty chemical firms are a key constituency of the smart window supply chain and the smart window market will be largely fueled by innovation in specialty chemicals and materials science. The major growth areas are electrochromic coatings and self-cleaning coatings with thermochromic coatings will provide somewhat moderate growth opportunities for material suppliers. The market for electrochromic glass windows in particular is expected to almost quadruple to over $2.1 billion market by 2017, with the new smart technologies, PDLC and SPD, generating almost $800 million by the same year.

Smart windows will further provide a growth platform for architectural glass manufacturers and window manufacturers. Already “pricey” architectural glass and window products can be sold at incremental price increase, while providing valuable additional features such as energy savings with smart coatings on the windows and glass facades.

For the construction and architectural side of things, NanoMarkets believes that firms who focus on LEED design and construction, and who adopt smart windows technologies, will benefit the most. As smart windows technology grows and pervades the marketplace, it will eventually become a “required technology” for LEED design and construction. Therefore, architectural and construction firms that are early adopters of smart windows technology in their building designs will gain a sustainable competitive advantage for growing their businesses.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of advanced glass and smart windows sectors and has been covering the markets for such technologies sector for more than six years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Projects Substantial Growth Potential for Smart Coatings in PV Applications

Published: February 26, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of its latest report on materials for the photovoltaics industry, “Smart Coatings in PV Applications 2012.” NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for smart coatings in PV will exceed $450 million ($US) in 2017, up from a value of under $12 million in 2012.

This report analyzes the opportunities for smart coatings in PV applications, with a focus on the four types of smart coatings poised to bring the most value to the PV sector: self-cleaning, self-repairing, electrochromic, and thermochromic coating systems. The report also discusses the strategies of some of the important and emerging suppliers or users of smart coating including: Almaden, Cardinal Glass, Gentex, Lotus Leaf Coatings, nanoShell, Nippon Glass, Nissan, Peer+, Pilkington/AGC, PPG, SAGE, Saint-Gobain, Soladigm, and others.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/smart_coatings_and_photovoltaics_2012

NanoMarkets has recently released related photovoltaics reports in the areas of BIPV glass, transparent conductors and CIGS.

From the Report:

While NanoMarkets sees the overall PV market slowing and facing future uncertainty, the firm believes that PV makers can improve their competitive position and growth prospects by looking to smart coatings that can improve basic PV performance and provide value-added functionality.

The integration of some kinds of smart coatings, especially self-cleaning ones, can cost-effectively increase conversion efficiencies, which have a direct and measurable affect on cost-per-watt. According to NanoMarkets’ new report, self-cleaning coatings are expected to almost $150 million in annual revenue from the PV sector by 2017.

Other, more sophisticated (and higher value) smart coatings can provide additional functionality that enables PV panel makers to create “premium” products and differentiate themselves in a rapidly commoditizing, and homogenizing, marketplace. These added functionality coatings include dimmable or “switchable” electrochromic, thermochromic, and related coating systems. Electrochromic systems are a natural fit for BIPV and advanced BIPV/smart window applications. Electrochromics in PV are predicted to generate over $190 million in annual revenue by 2017.

About NanoMarkets:

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NanoMarkets LC
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NanoMarkets Report Says BIPV Glass Market to Reach $6.4 billion by 2016

Published: February 22, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of its latest report on Building Integrated Photovoltaics Market, “BIPV Glass Markets 2012.” In the report NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for BIPV glass will reach $6.4 billion (USD) in revenues in 2016 compared to $1.5 billion in 2012.

The report analyzes the opportunities for BIPV glass products using c-Si, thin-film and OPV/DSC materials and provides eight-year forecasts in terms of MW and square footage shipped as well as forecasts of revenue generated. The report also contains an extensive discussion of the product evolution of BIPV glass and a forecast of each product type.

The report also discusses the strategies of some of the important suppliers of BIPV glass panels including, Atlantis Energy, Dyesol, Ertex, Focus Materials, Mage Sunovation, Onyx, Pilkington, Pythagoras, Schott, Sharp, Schuco, Suntech, Wuerth and others. The report also contains an analysis of the firms that NanoMarkets believes will be the most influential in the BIPV glass market.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/bipv_glass_markets_2012

From the Report:

Today’s BIPV glass provides transparency well below 50 percent and the initial markets for BIPV glass are to be found in skylights, facades, spandrels, curtain walls and atrium roofing where high levels of transparency are not required. However, the NanoMarkets report claims that by improving on the current level of transparency, manufacturers of BIPV glass may be able to expand their addressable markets. NanoMarkets believes that one way that improved transparency can be achieved is through new absorber materials such as very thin layers of CIGS or advanced dye sensitized cells (DSC) using more transparent dyes. Another approach is to use advanced optics to enable the positioning of the PV panels so that they don’t block sunlight to the same degree as in conventional BIPV glass panels.

A similar evolution is expected to occur in the nature of the BIPV glass products themselves. Currently, all BIPV glass is highly customized to the needs of specific projects. However, as BIPV glass shifts from being used almost exclusively used in prestige building projects to the broader commercial construction market, off-the-the-shelf products will have to be developed that can be sold through large construction firms and PV systems integrators. While the first generation of such off-the-shelf products are likely to embody quite similar technology to that use today, NanoMarkets believes that future generations of BIPV glass products will be characterized by monolithic integration and the incorporation of lighting, dimming and self-cleaning capabilities.

There may be more than 20 firms playing an active role in the developing the BIPV glass market today, but a handful of firms stand out as “firms to watch.” For example, Mage Sunovation and Dyesol have shown innovations on the materials front, while Pythagoras has demonstrated how optics can be used to improve BIPV glass performance. The report also notes that Suntech, the largest PV panel maker in the world, has dabbled in this area and may have the ability to transform the BIPV glass market by applying the Chinese style economics that currently dominates the conventional PV sector.

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NanoMarkets Projects Substantial Growth in Market for Transparent Conductors in PV Applications

Published: February 16, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of its latest report on materials for the photovoltaics (PV) industry, “Transparent Conductors in Thin-Film and Organic PV Applications 2012.” In the report NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for transparent conductors (TCs) in PV will grow at a CAGR of over 30% from a value of about $90 million in 2012 to about $300 million in 2016.

The report analyzes the opportunities for TCs in the TFPV, OPV, and DSC markets. The focus of the report is on the shifting market share of different types of TCs in the different PV segments. TCs considered include ITO, alternative TCOs, nanosilver and related TCs, carbon nanomaterial-based TCs, and TCs based on PEDOT conductive polymers. The major PV application markets covered are thin-film Si PV, CdTe PV, CIGS PV, OPV and DSC. The report also discusses the strategies of some of the important suppliers of TCs to the PV market, especially those in the emerging nanomaterial- and conductive polymer-based sector. Firms discussed include Agfa, Cambrios, Carestream Advanced Materials, Chasm, CimaNanotech, Heraeus, Pilkington, Saint Gobain, Tosoh, Toray, Umicore, Unidym and others.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://www.nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/transparent_conductors_in_thin_film_and_organic_photovoltaics_2012

From the Report:

While the overall PV market is entering a period of slow growth there is still good news for TC suppliers. The thin-film and organic PV sectors, which use TCs, are gaining share versus c-Si PV and furthermore, NanoMarkets believes that the pace of growth in the TFPV markets will offset declines related to decreasing government support and slow overall economic growth.

Indium-free “alt-TCOs” will continue to take market share away from ITO in the PV sector as they cause minimal disruption to existing production methods and some are better suited than ITO to particular PV types based on their lower cost, commodity scale availability, processing temperature window, or work function match to the rest of the TFPV cell. The alt-TCOs are expected to generate nearly $100 million dollars from PV applications by 2016.

Implementation of new TCO target systems or new deposition processes, such as by transitioning from conventional planar targets to more efficient rotary targets wherever possible, could greatly improve utilization rates and directly affect the bottom line for panel makers. Both TC and equipment suppliers can partner with panel makers on the optimization of existing deposition processes to maximize TC mobility, which would improve cost-per-watt values and increase the competitiveness of a particular TFPV technology for on-grid installations.

The biggest prospects for TCs, at least in the long-term, lie with solution-processable nanomaterial-based TCs, such as those based on nanosilver, another nanoscale metallic coating, or carbon nanomaterials. Solution processing will be especially attractive for new PV lines where existing vapor deposition equipment is not already entrenched, and solution processable TCs will become an even bigger factor as the relative importance of flexible PV increases over the next decade. NanoMarkets predicts that nanomaterial-based TCs can generate almost $50 million from PV applications by 2016.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the photovoltaics sector for more than six years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report on Building Integrated Photovoltaics Glass

Published: February 15, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of a new report to the firm’s schedule of February reports titled, “BIPV Glass Markets-2012.” The report builds on the considerable amount of industry analysis that NanoMarkets has carried out in the BIPV, smart windows and related markets to provide an eight year forecast and roadmap for BIPV products. Additional details about the report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/bipv_glass_markets_2012

About the Report:

This report examines and quantifies the market for BIPV products worldwide with coverage of both commercial and residential markets and a special consideration of the immediate market for BIPV in prestige buildings of various kinds. This analysis is carried out in the context of the latest developments in regional and national PV regulatory policy and construction industry trends.

The report also projects the development of BIPV glass systems themselves showing how they are expected to evolve from relatively crude systems with low levels of transparency to true integrations of PV and window glass. The report also looks at what the implications of all of this is in terms of opportunities for both PV and glass firms and assesses the current strategies of firms already pursuing the BIPV glass market. And as with all NanoMarkets reports, this report contains granular eight-year forecasts in both MW and dollar terms of BIPV glass markets, with breakouts by end user, type of product and type of PV technology.

Coverage Outline:

• BIPV Glass Technologies and Products
• BIPV Glass: Transparent and semitransparent
• The economics of BIPV glass
• The aesthetics and architectural merits of BIPV glass
• BIPV Glass by PV Technology
• Crystalline silicon: Pythagoras and Sunovation
• Thin-film PV: A road much travelled by the BIPV glass sector
• OPV, DSC and Transparency: Konarka and Dyesol
• BIPV glass and smart windows
• Adding intelligence to BIPV glass: Three strategies
• Retrofits and customization
• Tapping the market for retrofit transparent BIPV
• BIPV products customization strategies
• Plastic as an alternative to glass in BIPV

Markets and Drivers for BIPV Glass

• BIPV glass trends in 2011 and 2012
• Impact of worldwide construction trends
• Impact of economic and regulatory factors
• Important trends in national and regional markets
• BIPV glass markets for prestige buildings
• BIPV glass in other commercial and government building markets
• BIPV glass in residential building markets (multi-tenant and single-family)
• Other markets for BIPV glass

Forecasts for BIPV Markets

• Forecasting methodology
• Sources of information
• Pricing assumptions
• Alternative scenarios
• Forecast of BIPV glass by end user, type of PV and type of BIPV glass product

About NanoMarkets:

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NanoMarkets Forecasts Rapid Sales Growth for CIGS Solar Panels through Rest of Decade

Published: January 31, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: In its newly released report, CIGS Photovoltaics Markets-2012, industry analyst firm NanoMarkets forecasts revenues from CIGS panels will reach $4.4 billion (USD) by 2017. And while the recent announcement of a 150 MW solar farm supports the notion that CIGS technology is finally ready for prime time, NanoMarkets says that CIGS manufacturers will have to adopt new strategies to protect themselves from falling solar panel prices.

Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net

About the Report:

CIGS Photovoltaics Markets – 2012 is the latest in NanoMarkets’ ongoing series of industry reports on CIGS markets. Applications sectors covered include rigid panels (conventional and BIPV), flexible PV, portable PV and BIPV glass. The report also includes in-depth analysis of the latest trends in CIGS manufacturing and their market impact. The realistic eight-year forecasts in this report are broken out by application sector and by type of deposition/manufacturing. Both revenue and volume (MW) forecasts are included.

The report also discusses the strategies of important suppliers of both CIGS panels and materials. Companies mentioned include: 3M, American Elements, Ascent, Avancis/Saint Gobain, Bosch, CIS Solartechnik, Daiyang Metal, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Flisom, Fujifilm, Global Solar, GroupSat Solar, HelioVolt, Honda Soltec, Indium Corporation, ISET, Istar Solar, Jenn Feng, Nanoco, Nanosolar, Odersun, Sigma-Aldrich, Solar Frontier, Pfister Energy, Solarion, Solar Frontier, SoloPower, Sputtering Materials, Shurjo Energy, Solibro, Sulfurcell, Sunshine PV, Telio, TSMC/Stion, Umicore, Wuerth Solar and others

From the Report:

To meet the challenge of very low-cost crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar panels, CIGS will need to continue to improve on its cost per watt. NanoMarkets expects CIGS to succeed in this regard through volume production and manufacturing efficiencies such as thinner absorber layers and aggressive recycling of absorber materials. CIGS can also compete with c-Si based on superior aesthetics and good performance in indirect light.

NanoMarkets believes that reducing the cost of encapsulation is the key to success for flexible CIGS panels, which will generate more than $635 million by 2017. Current use of complex dyadic film encapsulation is proving very expensive and the new report suggests that there may be some potential for lowering costs by using overcoats of silicon nitride, silicon oxide, and/or silicon oxynitride before final module encapsulation. The report also says that the CIGS industry will embrace low-cost advanced plastic substrates going forward as a replacement for polyimide.

NanoMarkets also believes that CIGS manufacturing will take new directions resulting in higher efficiencies and lower costs. Laser annealing of the absorber layer will become more common and will enable more thermally sensitive substrates to be used. However, the cost of laser annealing equipment will need to be reduced before this can happen. NanoMarkets also foresees solution-based deposition as playing a growing role in the creation of CIGS panels based on new types of solvents. In the past, this type of approach has suffered as the result of high levels of impurities in the materials. However, hydrazine, however, is now proposed as a solvent system for solution-based deposition, and has shown promising results in the lab. This new approach seems likely to considerable improve CIGS efficiency

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NanoMarkets Report Predicts Smart Lighting Systems to Reach $5.9 billion (USD) by 2017

Published: January 31, 2012 Category: Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: In a newly released report, “Smart Lighting 2012,” industry analyst firm NanoMarkets forecasts that smart lighting systems will generate $5.9 billion in revenues by 2017. While lighting automation systems have achieved only a modicum of success in the past, NanoMarkets claims that rapidly rising energy costs, improved technology and the shift to energy efficient “lamps” will lead to new products and markets for smart lighting systems.

Additional details about the report are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net

About the Report:

This report analyzes the markets for the latest generation of intelligent lighting control systems designed to improve lighting efficiency, aesthetics and consumer comfort and health. Applications sectors covered include industrial/commercial buildings, public/government buildings, the residential sector and outdoor lighting. The report also discusses the use of smart lighting in transportation. The eight-year forecasts are broken out by type of products for each of these application sectors with the products covered being lighting controllers, local intelligence (sensors and intelligent ballasts) and intelligent switches

The report also discusses the strategies of some important suppliers of relevant electrode materials. Companies mentioned include: Acuity Brands, Adura Systems, Beckhoff Automation, Cavet Technologies, Daintree Networks, Digital Lumens, Easylite, EASI, Eaton, Ecoflex, Encelium, Enlighted, Fifth Light, Johnson Controls, GE, Honeywell, Hubbel Lighting Controls, Leviton, Lumenergi, Lumetric, Lutron, Osram, Panasonic, Philips, Redwood Systems, Schneider Electric, Starfield Controls, Trane, Universal Lighting Technologies and Zumtobel.

From the Report:

Smart lighting systems are the first opportunity for firms making luminaire and lighting components to capitalize on the trend towards energy efficiency in lighting. NanoMarkets believes they will seize this opportunity by creating new fixtures, ballasts and switch products with embedded intelligence. Previously the lighting efficiency trend has benefited only firms who manufacture energy efficient "lamps"; that is CFLs, LEDs and OLEDs.

Despite many attempts in the past, lighting automation has failed to take off in the residential market because achievable savings from energy efficiency were not sufficient to justify the upfront costs of lighting automation systems. However, improved sensor and networking technology, coupled with the ability of future lighting systems to offer mood, medical and aesthetic benefits to residential customers have the ability to completely change the value proposition of lighting automation for residential customers and result in smart lighting systems sales to residential sector reaching $2.2 billion by 2017.

The emerging smart lighting industry is badly in need of a firm that can champion the benefits of these new systems to customers, demarcate them for the old lighting automation systems and carve out a distinct and credible smart lighting industry. The score or so of smaller firms that are currently focused on smart lighting systems do not have the resources to become an industry champion, while the large lighting and automation/control firms are only just beginning to ramp up in this space. The firm that seizes this opportunity will have the ability to rapidly build its brand and its market share in a new smart lighting industry.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts in these areas and has been covering solid-state lighting markets for almost five years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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NanoMarkets February Report, “Transparent Conductors in Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaics 2012”

Published: January 31, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of a new report to its February publication schedule titled “Transparent Conductors in Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaics – 2012” that will be released the week of February 13th. The report continues the firm’s coverage of transparent conductors and photovoltaics that dates back to 2005. Additional details about the report including a table of contents are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/transparent_conductors_in_thin_film_and_organic_photovoltaics_2012.

The report is available at pre-publication pricing. NanoMarkets will release a related report on smart coatings in photovoltaics in February as well.

About the Report:

“Transparent Conductors in Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaics – 2012” is the latest report from NanoMarkets in our ongoing coverage of materials and markets in the photovoltaics sector. In this report, NanoMarkets examines the changing opportunities for different kinds of transparent conductors in the TFPV and organic PV industry.

This report considers how transparent conductors will find markets and help create value for suppliers of leading edge PV technologies under the changed circumstances that PV faces today in which government subsidies are under threat and there are huge pressures to reduce TFPV costs to make it competitive with c-Si PV and with other sources of energy in general. Taking into account the new dynamics of the TFPV and OPV industry, this report identifies where transparent conductor firms can generate business revenues, both from the older segments of the TFPV/OPV industry and from emerging segments, such as BIPV glass.

This report is designed to help transparent conductor suppliers to understand how the overall changes in the PV industry will influence their sales. It covers the use of transparent conductors in thin-film Si, CIGS, CdTe, OPV, and DSC and includes a discussion of how both established transparent conductor technology and the latest transparent conducting nanomaterials can make money in the PV market.

As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report includes an eight-year forecast of the markets broken out by type of PV technology and type of transparent conductor material. In addition, the report discusses the strategies of key firms to watch in this important sector. The forecasts are provided in both value and volume terms.

About NanoMarkets:

Founded in 2004, NanoMarkets has grown to become one of the industry’s leading authorities on market opportunities in advances materials and emerging energy and electronics markets. The firm annually publishes dozens of market analyst reports that are purchased by leading companies around the world. Please visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s market coverage and product and service offerings.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-1718
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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming February 2012 Report, “Smart Coatings and Photovoltaics 2012”

Published: January 31, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of a new report to its February publication schedule titled “Smart Coatings and Photovoltaics 2012” that will be released the week of February 20th. The report continues the firm’s coverage of photovoltaic related materials markets that dates back to 2005. Additional details about the report including a table of contents are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/smart_coatings_and_photovoltaics_2012 .

The report is available at pre-publication pricing. NanoMarkets will release a related report on transparent conductors in photovoltaics in February as well.

About the Report:

“Smart Coatings and Photovoltaics 2012” is part of NanoMarkets’ ongoing coverage of materials and markets in photovoltaics (PV). In this report, NanoMarkets examines the emerging opportunities for selling “smart” coatings into the solar panel industry. In this report we examine the potential for self-cleaning, self-healing, electrochromic and thermochromic coatings in the PV applications over the next eight years. It includes an assessment of where revenue generation will occur and which companies are likely to be the winners and losers in this space. The report also includes a detailed eight-year forecast of smart coating usage in the PV space, broken out by coated area and market value.

NanoMarkets has been covering the markets for PV materials since 2005 and believes strongly that there are now growing opportunities to sell smart coatings into the PV sector. This report considers how smart coatings can create value for the PV industry under the changed circumstances that PV faces today, in which government subsidies are under threat and there are huge pressures to reduce PV costs across the industry.

About NanoMarkets:

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Robert Nolan

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NanoMarkets Adds Three Reports to Firm’s Coverage of Solar Industry

Published: January 31, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the addition of three new reports to the firm’s publishing schedule that address emerging photovoltaics (PV) markets. The reports titled, “CIGS Photovoltaics Markets – 2012”, “Smart Coatings and Photovoltaics 2012” and “Transparent Conductors in Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaics – 2012” address key growth segments in a sector facing uncertainty due to declining subsidies, oversupply and falling prices.

Details about the reports are available at: http://www.nanomarkets.net

About the Reports:

“CIGS Photovoltaics Markets – 2012” (http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/cigs_photovoltaics_markets_2012)is the latest in NanoMarkets’ ongoing series of industry reports on CIGS markets. Applications sectors covered include rigid panels (conventional and BIPV), flexible PV, portable PV and BIPV glass. The report also includes in-depth analysis of the latest trends in CIGS manufacturing and their market impact. The realistic eight-year forecasts in this report are broken out by application sector and by type of deposition/manufacturing. Both revenue and volume (MW) forecasts are included.

“Transparent Conductors in Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaics – 2012” (http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/transparent_conductors_in_thin_film_and_organic_photovoltaics_2012) examines the changing opportunities for different kinds of transparent conductors in the TFPV and organic PV industry.

This report covers the use of transparent conductors in thin-film Si, CIGS, CdTe, OPV, and DSC and includes a discussion of how both established transparent conductor technology and the latest transparent conducting nanomaterials can make money in the PV market. The report includes an eight-year forecast of the markets broken out by type of PV technology and type of transparent conductor material. In addition, the report discusses the strategies of key firms to watch in this important sector.

"Smart Coatings and Photovoltaics 2012" http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/smart_coatings_and_photovoltaics_2012

In this report, NanoMarkets examines the potential for self-cleaning, self-healing, electrochromic and thermochromic coatings in the PV applications over the next eight years. It includes an assessment of where revenue generation will occur and which companies are likely to be the winners and losers in this space. The report also includes a detailed eight-year forecast of smart coating usage in the PV space, broken out by coated area and market value.

NanoMarkets has been covering the markets for PV materials for almost seven years and believes strongly that there are now growing opportunities to sell smart coatings into the PV sector. This report considers how smart coatings can create value for the PV industry under the changed circumstances that PV faces today, in which government subsidies are under threat and there are huge pressures to reduce PV costs across the industry.

Among firms discussed in this report are, Bayer Material Science, Cardinal Glass, Corning, Gentex, Nippon Sheet Glass, Nissan, PPG, Peer, SAGE Electrochromics, Saint-Gobain, and Soladigm.

About NanoMarkets:

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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New NanoMarkets Report Projects Strong Growth for Lithium Battery Electrode Materials

Published: January 26, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: In a newly released report, “New Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries -2012”, industry analyst firm NanoMarkets projects that the need for higher performance batteries for consumer electronics, hybrid/electric vehicles and other applications will quickly create a large market for novel lithium battery electrode materials. Revenues from non-conventional electrode materials are expected to reach around $1.3 billion by 2017, representing an almost 25 percent share of all lithium battery electrode materials sold. At present this share is 8 percent.

Although many materials are being tried out, NanoMarkets believes that those with the most potential for cathodes are lithium manganese oxide, lithium iron phosphate, nickel manganese cobalt composite and nickel cobalt alumina composite. For anodes, the growth opportunities are to be found in lithium titanate and silicon. This report also analyzes and forecasts markets for the traditional electrode materials; lithium cobalt oxide and graphite.

Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net

About the Report:

This report analyzes the markets for lithium ion battery electrode materials driven by developments in the consumer electronics, power tools, electric/hybrid vehicles, smart grids/stationary and military/aerospace segments. The eight-year forecasts are broken out by type of material both in volume and value terms for each application.

The report also discusses the strategies of some important suppliers of relevant electrode materials. Companies mentioned include: 3M, A123, Actacell, AGM Batteries, Aleees, Altairnano, Amprius, BASF, ConocoPhillips, Enerdel, Enerize, Enia, Envia Systems, Hitachi, Johnson Controls, LG Chem, NEI, Nexeon, Panasonic, Phostech, Saft, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and Umicore.

From the Report:

• The current performance of lithium ion batteries limits its addressable markets especially in automotive and smart grid applications. Better electrodes seem the main way to address this limitation and the success of lithium manganese oxide (LMO) as the novel cathode material that allowed the lithium ion battery to break into the power tools business has paved the way for this strategy. To date, LMO is the only non-conventional electrode material to reach high volume sales and revenues from this material will generate more than $430 million by 2017.

• The fastest growing electrode material markets will be those for lithium iron phosphate and nickel manganese cobalt for cathodes which together will account for almost $700 million in revenue by 2017. Lithium ion phosphate seems well positioned to challenge LMO since it can offer a similar performance, but is considered to be safer. This makes it attractive in a number of markets especially automotive. Nickel manganese cobalt offers an especially high energy density.

• Despite well-established R&D programs intended to replace graphite as the anode material of choice for lithium batteries, NanoMarkets believes that graphite will still account for more than 90 percent of the revenues from anode materials until after 2017. Alternative materials have been quite challenging to develop and are at an early stage of development. However, there is a strong incentive to pursue this goal because EVs are demanding higher energy densities. Despite the hype about silicon, titanate anodes are likely to offer more immediate business prospects, although there may be some use of silicon by Panasonic and a few other companies in consumer electronics applications.

About NanoMarkets:

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
804-270-1718
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NanoMarkets Announces White Paper on Transparent Electronics Markets in Support of Upcoming Webinar

Published: January 25, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the release of a new white paper that looks at the emerging opportunities arising from transparent electronics markets. The information for this paper was sourced from the recent NanoMarkets report, "Transparent Electronics Markets-2012" that was released in December of 2011. NanoMarkets is also hosting a webinar on February 15, 2012 to present findings from the report. Persons interested in registering for the webinar can do so at: http://nanomarkets.net/events. Upon registering for the webinar participants will receive access to the paper.

About the Paper:

NanoMarkets believes that three major industry sectors -- displays, solar panels and the windows industry -- will soon require novel transparent electronics materials. These new materials sets will embrace conductors, semiconductors and dielectrics and NanoMarkets believes that all this will provide an important new opportunity for both established specialty chemical firms and startups.

In a recently released report, "Transparent Electronics Markets-2012", NanoMarkets projected that revenues from transparent electronic materials are expected to reach $325 million in 2015, going on to reach $1.1 billion in 2019 (See Exhibit I). In addition, some of the materials development that NanoMarkets expects to be undertaken with transparent electronics in mind will generate additional revenues outside of the transparent electronics sector. We are thinking here especially of oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) for use in both OLED and LCD backplanes for distinctly non-transparent displays. But some of the work on developing transparent conductors may have implications in the ITO replacement market as well.

With the exception of the transparent conductor space, it is still too early to pick real winners and losers in the transparent electronics materials space. Indeed, NanoMarkets predicts that we will soon begin to see some new firms begin to appear in this space to capitalize on the opportunities that we have identified here. This is not to say that some of the big boys won’t also play a significant role. NanoMarkets considers the top firms to watch in the transparent electronics space to include: 3M, Apple, Cambrios, Corning, Kurt J. Lesker, Samsung and Saint-Gobain.

About NanoMarkets:

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

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-1718
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Conference Call to Discuss Firm’s Report on Flexible Substrates Markets

Published: January 23, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it will be hosting a conference call to discuss findings from the firm’s recently released report, “Flexible Substrates Markets 2012.” In the report NanoMarkets projected that the total market for flexible substrates will grow to $1.2 billion by 2017. The call will take place on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM EST (-5:00 GMT) and there is no cost to register.

Persons interested in signing up to attend the call may do so by registering on the firm’s website at: http://nanomarkets.net/events

About the Event:

On this call NanoMarkets will present findings from the firm's report, “Flexible Substrates Markets 2012.” Participants will hear the report's author, Katherine Derbyshire's perspectives on the evolution of the flexible substrate market and where NanoMarkets sees the industry's opportunities unfolding over the coming years. We encourage registrants to submit questions via this form. The moderator will select the most relevant questions and present them during the session.

About the Report:

The report also discusses the strategies of some of the leading suppliers and users of these materials including include Ascent Solar, Corning, Dow Chemical, DuPont, DuPont Teijin, Dyesol, Kaneka, Nokia, Pilkington Glass, Samsung Schott and Tata Steel. It also includes detailed forecasts for the flexible plastic, metal and glass substrate materials in both volume and value terms, with breakouts by application, by material type, and by printing method.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the conductive coatings market in electronics for more than five years.

Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
804-270-1718
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Conference Call to Discuss Firm’s New Report on Conductive Coatings Markets

Published: January 19, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it will be hosting a conference call to discuss findings from the firm’s recently released report, “Conductive Coatings in Energy and Electronics Markets– 2012” where the firm estimated that the total market for conductive coatings will grow at a CAGR of about 10% from a value of $9.5 billion (USD) in 2012 to approximately $13.8 billion in 2016. The date of the call will be Friday, February 3, 2012 at 10:00 AM EST (-5:0 GMT).

Persons interested in signing up to attend the call may do so by registering on the firm’s website at: http://nanomarkets.net/events.

About the Event:

On this call NanoMarkets will findings from the firm's recent report, "Conductive Coatings in Energy and Electronics Markets." Participants will hear the firm's latest perspectives on the evolution of the conductive coatings market and how and where NanoMarkets sees the industry unfolding over the coming years. NanoMarkets is encouraging registrants to pre-submit questions via the on-line registration form. The moderator will select the most relevant questions and present them during the session.

About the Report:

This report analyzes the opportunities for emerging conductive coatings in various electronics markets. The major focus of the analysis is on growth opportunities in electronics applications for new kinds of materials, such as alternative transparent conductive oxides, nanometals, carbon nanomaterials, conductive polymers, and the like. The forecasts also contain projections for the legacy, large-volume conductive coatings materials such as ITO, metals, and conventional carbon. The major application markets covered are coatings used in displays, solar panels, energy storage, EMI/RFI shielding, and ESD/antistatic protection.

The report also discusses the strategies of some of the important suppliers of novel conductive coatings product, especially those in the emerging nanomaterial-based coatings sector. Firms discussed include Agfa, Cambrios, Carestream Advanced Materials, Cima NanoTech, Enthone, Heraeus, Linde Group, PolyIC, Saint Gobain, Toray, Unidym, Vorbeck Materials and others.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the conductive coatings market in electronics for more than five years.

Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
804-270-1718
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces New Webinar on Opportunities in Transparent Electronics Markets

Published: January 19, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst in advanced materials and emerging electronics and energy markets will be hosting a webinar on the morning of February 15, 2012 to present findings from a recently released report, “Transparent Electronics Markets-2012”. There is no cost to register for the event. Persons interested in participating can do so by registering on the NanoMarkets website at http://www.nanomarkets.net/events/event/transparent_electronics_markets

About the Webinar:

The NanoMarkets webinar will take place on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM EST (-5:00 GMT). This webinar will present findings from a recent NanoMarkets report that examined the market potential for transparent electronics. NanoMarkets strongly believes that transparency is a key driver for both innovation and revenue generation in several applications areas and that there will be a strong demand for new high performance transparent materials sets going forward. Materials suppliers and OEMs will both stand to benefit from this trend and in the webinar NanoMarkets will identify and quantify those opportunities.

Registrants are encouraged to submit questions at the time of registration to help guide the presentation.

About the Report, Transparent Electronics Markets-2012

This report identifies and quantifies markets for transparent displays, solar panels and sensors, as well as self-tinting windows. It also analyzes recent innovations in the materials from which these systems are fabricated including the developments in metal oxide semiconductors and transparent electronic nanomaterials.

Although transparent electronic products have been available for some time, the new NanoMarkets report identifies opportunities that are appearing as the result of both the latest IT trends and the growing need to economize on energy usage. Among the firms that are discussed in this report are: Apple, Bosch, China Technology Development, DVE, Dyesol, EControl Glas, General Motors, Gentex, HelioVolt, Konarka, Landec, Lenovo, LG, Odersun, Microsoft, NeoView, Kolon, Planar Systems, Pythagoras Solar, Pleotint, Polytronix, RavenBrick, Rockwell, Sage Electrochromics, Saint-Gobain, Samsung, Sanyo, Schott, Sony, Sharp, Soladigm, Solarmer, Sunovation, Thales, Toshiba, Umicore and Wurth Solar.

The report also contains eight-year forecasts, broken out by application and type of technology. Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/transparent_electronics_markets_2012.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-1718
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New NanoMarkets Report Projects Healthy Growth for Conductive Coatings Energy and Electronics Market

Published: January 17, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: In a newly released report, industry analyst firm NanoMarkets states that the conductive coatings market has morphed from a stable, established business ecosystem into a more dynamic and important growth opportunity for materials companies as new forms of electronics emerge. The report titled, “Conductive Coatings in Energy and Electronics Markets– 2012” estimates that the total market for conductive coatings will grow at a CAGR of about 10% from a value of $9.5 billion (USD) in 2012 to approximately $13.8 billion in 2016.

Additional details about the report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/conductive_coatings_in_electronics_and_energy_markets

About the Report:

This report analyzes the opportunities for emerging conductive coatings in various electronics markets. The major focus of the analysis is on growth opportunities in electronics applications for new kinds of materials, such as alternative transparent conductive oxides, nanometals, carbon nanomaterials, conductive polymers, and the like. The forecasts also contain projections for the legacy, large-volume conductive coatings materials such as ITO, metals, and conventional carbon. The major application markets covered are coatings used in displays, solar panels, energy storage, EMI/RFI shielding, and ESD/antistatic protection.

The report also discusses the strategies of some of the important suppliers of novel conductive coatings product, especially those in the emerging nanomaterial-based coatings sector. Firms discussed include Agfa, Cambrios, Carestream Advanced Materials, Cima NanoTech, Enthone, Heraeus, Linde Group, PolyIC, Saint Gobain, Toray, Unidym, Vorbeck Materials and others.

From the Report:

The display industry is looking for the next big thing beyond LCDs and new forms of conductive coatings will be an important factor in the development of flexible and transparent displays, as well as OLEDs and touch-screen based products. The display sector is where conductive coatings suppliers can expect to see the greatest opportunities going forward since the PV sector clearly has its work cut out for it in light of subsidy reductions, oversupply, China’s emergence and India’s domestic manufacturing policies.

On the materials side, the biggest news is the coming-of-age of nanomaterials for electronics applications. Finally, these materials based on nanoscale metallic particles or CNTs and graphene have serious commercial drivers and in the report nanomaterials are projected to see the biggest growth rates in our forecasts reaching $1.2 billion by 2016.

The increasing multi-functionality of all consumer electronics, and the ubiquity of wireless computing and communications is fueling growth in conductive coatings for energy storage applications as well continuing to drive demand for coatings used for EMI/RFI shielding and/or ESD protection of devices. And by 2016, NanoMarkets expects to see revenues for conductive coatings used for energy storage devices reach $1.4 billion and for EMI/RFI and ESD protection reach $2.9 billion.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the conductive coatings market in electronics for more than five years.

Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
804-270-1718
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Availability of Slides from Firm’s Webinar on Silver Inks and Pastes

Published: January 05, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it has posted the slides from the firm’s a webinar on silver inks and pastes that was held on January 5, 2012. Persons interested in obtaining the slides can do so at http://nanomarkets.wufoo.com/forms/silver-inks-and-pastes-slides-request/. There is no cost to obtain the slides.

The webinar presented findings from the firm’s recently released report, “Silver Inks and Pastes Markets -2012 that the firm issued in December of 2011. Details of that report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/silver_inks_and_pastes_markets_2012

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming January 2012 Report, “CIGS Photovoltaics Markets-2012”

Published: January 04, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of a new report to its January publication schedule titled “CIGS Photovoltaics Markets-2012” that will be released the week of January 30th. The report continues the firm’s coverage of thin-film photovoltaics that dates back to 2005. Additional details about the report including a table of contents are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/cigs_photovoltaics_markets_2012

The report is listed at pre-publication pricing through January 30th.

From the Report:

The CIGS industry has promised more than it has delivered. To date, CIGS has failed to be the printable high-efficiency, low-cost and flexible solar panel technology that was once hoped for by its advocates. In addition, it is impossible not to notice that the Solyndra scandal in the U.S. has at its center a CIGS firm. Yet despite all this, the CIGS industry has begun to ship panels in significant quantities.

This report is NanoMarkets’ latest report analyzing the CIGS industry and its prospects for the future. NanoMarkets has been covering the CIGS space since CIGS’ earliest days and this report should be regarded as a major guide to the future of CIGS, compiled with an insider’s knowledge. It examines the future of this important solar panel technology from both the standpoint of the technical and the commercial. And it does so with a background in which it seems likely that many of the subsidies that have helped solar in the past will fade away and that the world economy will not return to the strong growth of the last decade for quite some time.

Among the important technical aspects of CIGS that this report covers are the likely evolution of CIGS fabrication and encapsulation and how these factors factor into market expansion and cost reduction for CIGS. Much of the report is also devoted to the role that CIGS will play in the building-integrated PV (BIPV market) and how flexibility and price parity with silicon solar panels could considerably improve the revenues generated by CIGS technology in the near future.

As with most NanoMarkets reports, this report includes an eight-year forecast in volume and value terms of CIGS markets broken out by applications and product type. It also includes a discussion of the leading firms active in this space and their product/market strategies.

About NanoMarkets:

Founded in 2004, NanoMarkets has grown to become one of the industry’s leading authorities on market opportunities in advances materials and emerging energy and electronics markets. The firm annually publishes dozens of market analyst reports that are purchased by leading companies around the world. Please visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s market coverage and product and service offerings.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-1718
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Report Projects Rapid Growth in Metallic Nanomaterials Over the Next Eight Years

Published: January 04, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets is announcing the release of a new report on metallic nanomaterials (nanometals). In this report, “Nanometals in Electronics and Energy Markets – 2012 and Beyond,” NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for metallic nanoparticles, nanoinks and pastes, and nanostructures will grow to around $2.0 billion (USD) by 2017.

Additional details about the report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/nanometals_in_electronics_and_energy_markets_2012_and_beyond

The report is the latest in the firm’s ongoing coverage of nanomaterials for electronics and energy applications which dates back to 2005. It also detailed revenue forecasts for the materials covered broken out by application including printed circuit boards, consumer appliances, optical storage and computer memories, printed and organic electronics, smart windows, solar panels, energy storage, sensors, and chemical catalysts. It also provides detailed forecasts by material type including silver, gold, copper, platinum, palladium and other metallic nanomaterials.

The report also discusses the strategies of some of the leading suppliers of nanometals and related materials including American Elements, Beijing NanoMeet Technology, Cambrios, DuPont, Inframat, Johnson Matthey, JR Nanotech, Meliorum Technologies, MK Impex, NaBond, nanoComposix, Nanocs, NanoLab, Nanoco, Nanopatz, Nanoprobes, Nano-Oxides, Nano Silver Manufacturing, Nanostructured and Amorphous Materials, NN-Labs, Pilkington Glass, QuantumSphere, Reinste Nano Ventures, PowerMetal, Samsung, Sigma-Aldrich, SkySpring Nanomaterials, US Research Nanomaterials, UT Dots, and others.

From the report:

The nanometals business has made considerable efforts to break out of its dependence on the R&D community for sales. Nonetheless, its efforts to sell nanometal replacements for traditional conductive inks over the past few years have not been especially successful. As a result, nanometals suppliers will have to refocus their efforts on novel applications, such as optical storage disks and catalysts for the energy and chemical industries.

These applications are riskier than the inks business and will also require more aggressive marketing. Firms selling transparent conductors based on nanometallic materials for use displays and solar panels are setting an example to other nanometals firms of how to build a commercial customer base. NanoMarkets believes that if nanometals firms follow this lead, by 2017 almost 93 percent of the revenues for nanometals will come from markets that barely exist today.

Today, almost 85 percent of the nanometals business come from silver inks, pastes, particles and nanostructures, but by 2017, NanoMarkets believes that this number will reduce to 54 percent. The three big gainers are expected to be platinum, palladium and gold.

Platinum and palladium nanomaterials are expected to find a ready market as manufacturers of both sensors and chemical catalysts seek higher performance materials for their products. Catalytic applications for these and other nanomaterials are expected to generate more money in the future as it becomes increasingly necessary to squeeze more value out of expensive fuel sources. Meanwhile gold nanomaterials are likely to find generate new business in a number of different applications, especially as an enabler of new forms of information storage.

About NanoMarkets:

Founded in 2004, NanoMarkets has grown to become one of the industry’s leading authorities on market opportunities in advances materials and emerging energy and electronics markets. The firm annually publishes dozens of market analyst reports that are purchased by leading companies around the world. Please visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s market coverage and product and service offerings.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
(804) 270-1718
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Jan. 2012 Report “New Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries - 2012”

Published: January 04, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of a new report to its January publication schedule titled “New Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries - 2012” that will be released the week of January 23rd. Additional details about the report including a table of contents are available at: http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/new_electrode_materials_for_lithium_ion_batteries_2012

The report is listed at pre-publication pricing through January 23rd.

From the Report:

Lithium ion batteries have increasingly become the workhorse power source for the consumer electronics and power tool market and they are finding new applications all the time. For example, some firms are developing lithium ion batteries for the electric vehicle (EV) market, while others seem them as a better bet than the more traditional chemical storage batteries currently used in smart electricity grids.

Within the consumer electronics and power tool sector, the market is looking for longer times between charges and quicker charging from lithium ion batteries and these performance measures will be key competitive factors going forward among the various kinds of lithium ion batteries being deployed. Elsewhere other measures – such as the cost of energy storage – will determine how well lithium ion batteries will do in sectors such as EV and smart grids.

Most of these critical factors will ultimately be determined by the materials that are chose for lithium ion batteries; especially the electrode materials used. This report examines the commercial implications of the newer materials that are being put forward for electrode materials. As the table of contents below indicates, the materials that we have covered in this report include nanostructured carbon and silicon, titanates, vanadium oxides, mixed metal oxides and a variety of lithium compounds.

This report explains the emerging requirements for battery performance in each of the main application sectors for lithium ion batteries and then shows how these translate into demand for novel electrode materials. It also analyzes the market strategies of major materials and battery firms active in this space. The report also provides the eight-year forecasts by application and material type.

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NanoMarkets January 2012 Report “Conductive Coatings in Electronics and Related Applications”

Published: January 04, 2012 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of a new report to its January publication schedule titled “Conductive Coatings in Electronics and Related Applications” that will be released the week of January 23rd. The report continues the firm’s coverage of conductive materials that dates back to 2004. Additional details about the report including a table of contents are available at:
http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/conductive_coatings_in_electronics_and_energy_markets

The report is listed at pre-publication pricing through January 23rd.

From the Report:

While much of the conductive coatings market is mature and uses well-established methods for applying various kinds of conductive coatings there are a growing number of opportunities for innovative suppliers of new kinds of conductive coating materials, and a growing number of customers eager to evaluate these newer products. The opportunities are driven by several factors:

• Applications in alternative energy generation and storage are an important growing market. Solar panels now constitute a major market for electronics materials, and there are new kinds of batteries and capacitors on the market that need higher performance electrodes.

• There is a growing need for a wider selection of high performance transparent conductive electrodes. While indium tin oxide, ITO will continue to dominate the market, there are also real opportunities for new transparent conductors, from alternative, sputter-deposited metal oxides to wet-coated nanometal, carbon nanotube, and conductive polymer-based coatings. Manufacturers of products across the spectrum, from new types of displays to lighting and solar panels, are increasingly willing to evaluate ITO alternatives.

• The expansion of electronics that support pervasive wireless computing is fueling growth in the market for EMI/RFI coatings. Legacy products will continue to do well, but new solutions for shielding are also expected to grow. This application was once considered slow growth, but has transformed into one that has greater potential than ever before.

All of these trends have increased the opportunities for entirely new conductive materials, and, taken together, will help drive the value of the conductive coatings market upward.

NanoMarkets has been providing analytical coverage of conductive coatings for more than four years and has developed an insider’s knowledge of this interesting market. In this report, we identify where the main opportunities in conductive coatings will be found in the next eight years. For this report, we have separated the market into four main classes of conductive coatings. These are metals, metallic oxides, conductive polymers and nanomaterials. We discuss the latest technical and commercial developments and latest materials that area appearing on the scene, such as graphene and nanomaterials substitutes for ITO.

As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report includes a detailed eight-year forecast of conductive coatings markets by application and material, and it contains a discussion of some of the key materials suppliers and other firms active in this space.

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Robert Nolan
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NanoMarkets Report Projects Rapid Rise in Demand for Flexible Substrates in the Coming Decade

Published: December 19, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets is announcing the release of its latest report on flexible substrates that estimates that the total market for flexible substrates will grow to $1.2 billion by 2017. Demand for these materials is being driven by a wave of interest of adding flexibility in displays, solar panels, sensors as a way to expand markets in difficult times. Additional details about the report, Flexible Substrates Markets – 2012 are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net.

This report is the latest in the firm’s ongoing coverage of flexible electronics and photovoltaics markets. It analyzes the opportunities for flexible substrates in a wide range of applications including displays, photovoltaics, sensors, and in a variety of roll-to-roll fabrication applications. Materials discussed in this report include metal sheets and foils, polyimide and PET, flexible glass, textiles and paper.

From the report:

Despite the considerable hype about flexible displays, much larger revenues for flexible substrate makers will come from the building-integrated PV (BIPV) sector. Substrates for flexible solar panels will account for $536 million in 2017. BIPV introduces a new architectural aesthetic and enables the costs of PV to be shared with the building fabric costs; flexible substrates will be a key enabling technology for these trends. Flexible solar panels will also be easier to transport and install.

The earliest flexible substrates revenues will come from roll-to-roll (R2R) fabrication. R2R promises low-cost displays, lighting, RFID, etc. But there are still major challenges to be overcome in R2R since such processes often produce lower performance devices. NanoMarkets believes that these problems will be resolved and the market for R2R flexible substrates will then explode.

Meanwhile, the materials used for flexible substrates will change. The report predicts a major trend towards low-cost polymer substrates such as PET, as dramatic reductions in processing temperatures occur. This will also require more use of organic semiconductors. In addition, NanoMarkets sees flexible glass becoming a substantial market, if this material can support the same process technologies used for rigid glass displays. There will also be niche market for such novel flexible substrates as paper and textiles.

Nonetheless, it is expected that the flexible substrates that are used to today will continue to take a significant share of the market. Metal substrates are already in widespread use (notably in the PV industry). Where strong, inert, cheap substrates are desired, stainless steel will remain a popular choice. Polyimide films are most likely to succeed in the long run where processing conditions are gentlest; printed PV would be an example here

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for display and solar panel materials and has been covering these markets for more than five years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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NanoMarkets Report Projects Slight Decline Silver Pastes Market Over Next Seven Years

Published: December 12, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets is announcing the release of its latest report on industrial silver markets, “Silver Inks and Pastes – 2012.” In the report, NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for silver inks and pastes will grow to a value of about $7.6 billion in 2012, but that it will contract over the forecast period to a about $6.8 billion by 2018.

The report is the latest in the firm’s ongoing coverage of the silver inks and pastes markets that dates back to 2005 and follows recent 2011 releases on nanosilver, silver powders and flakes and silver transparent conductors. It analyzes the opportunities for silver inks and pastes in all the relevant, major markets for these materials, including PV, displays, lighting, RFIDs, sensors, and traditional thick film applications. The report also discusses the strategies of some of the leading suppliers of silver inks and pastes including Cima NanoTech , Creative Materials, DuPont, Ferro, Harima , Henkel, Heraeus, InkTec, Methode , Sun Chemical and others and includes detailed forecasts for the materials in both volume and value terms and broken out by application, by material type, and by printing method.

Additional details about the report are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net

From the report:

Several factors are contributing to a declining market value for silver inks and pastes.

Persistently high silver prices are negatively impacting the business. Companies simply do not have the means to simply pass on price increases to their customers and those same customers are looking very hard for ways to reduce or eliminate the use of silver.

While photovoltaics have been a strong market for silver inks and pastes up until now, NanoMarkets points to slowing overall growth in the PV business and the shift towards thin-film PV which does not use nearly as much silver as traditional crystalline silicon PV. Our forecasts suggest that as early as 2013, the value of silver inks and pastes consumed by the PV sector will start to decline.

The emergence of LCD and LED displays have forced plasma display (PDP) makers into an extremely competitive situation where price is key. And since PDPs have been a significant user of printed silver, the silver ink and paste makers are facing additional challenges in what was a strong market for them.

Finally, while manufacturers of membrane switches, printed circuit boards, capacitors, etc. will still use large quantities of silver inks and pastes, it is also clear that they will be looking for more profitable markets and products which indicates a strong trend toward higher value-added inks that target specific niches.

On the positive side, while new inks will take some time to develop, they will help to keep margins high in those silver ink and paste products that are being sold. In addition, the market will be looking at the next "applications wave" that it can ride in the way that it has ridden PV for the last five years. Possibilities are flexible displays , OLED lighting, and the sensors market, which is growing in both the (bio)medical sensors area and in everyday, ubiquitous electronics applications that seek to create a world of pervasive computing and contextual user feedback.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the silver inks and pastes business and has been covering this market for more than five years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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New Webinar on Opportunities for Silver Inks and Pastes in Electronics and Energy Markets

Published: December 09, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst in advanced materials and emerging electronics and energy markets will be hosting a webinar on the morning of January 5, 2012 to present findings from a soon-to-be released report, “Silver Inks and Pastes Markets 2012”. Additional materials will be referenced from NanoMarkets reports on nanosilver, silver transparent conductors and silver in photovoltaics.

There is no cost to register for the event. Persons interested in participating can do so by registering on the NanoMarkets website at http://nanomarkets.wufoo.com/forms/silver-inks-and-pastes-webinar-registration/

A recording of the event along with a transcript will be made available afterwards.

About the Report - “Silver Inks and Pastes Markets – 2012”

This new report on opportunities in the silver inks and pastes market provides an up-to-date survey of the market conditions today and a forecast of the next eight years. NanoMarkets has been covering this sector now for more than five years and this is latest in our ongoing series of industry analysis on silver conductors of various kinds.

In the report, we consider how the persistent environment of relentlessly high silver prices - with no relief in sight - is affecting the markets for these materials. Will this mean a sustained opportunity for alternatives to silver? We also identify the niche opportunities that continue to emerge from the traditional thick-film industry and conversely whether the profound changes going on in the display and solar panel industry will reduce the demand for silver. For example, will the reduction of subsidies for crystalline silicon solar panels (a large consumer of silver pastes) ultimately hurt the silver pastes business and similarly will the steady decline of the plasma display industry have a similar effect? Also examined in this report is the future of nanosilver inks, a product that has been full of unfulfilled promise for several years now. Is it time to give up on the commercialization of these materials?

This rather gloomy set of questions is balanced in the report by an examination of emerging opportunities. For example, large OLED lighting and television panels are just a few years out. Will they prove a vibrant market for printed silver bus lines and interconnects? In addition, in the new policy environment for solar panels, entirely new kinds of photovoltaics are likely to emerge quite quickly. Will they make use of silver in the electrodes the same way that older types of PV did? And all those sensors that will deploy as part of the "Internet of Things," will they also make significant use of printed silver?

This report explores the emerging opportunities in silver inks and pastes in the light of all these trends and provides an up-to-date guide for finding the growth opportunities and navigating the market challenges. As part of this analysis, we examine the strategies of the key players in the silver inks/pastes markets, and identify what we believe to be the trends indicating likely success (or not) at different firms. Finally, as always we include eight-year market forecasts for silver inks and pastes by application and by material.

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of Report Transparent Electronics Markets – 2012

Published: November 29, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announced the release of a market report on transparent electronics titled, Transparent Electronics Markets – 2012. This report identifies and quantifies markets for transparent displays, solar panels and sensors, as well as self-tinting windows. It also analyzes recent innovations in the materials from which these systems are fabricated including the developments in metal oxide semiconductors and transparent electronic nanomaterials.

From the Report:

The development of metallic oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) is enabling a new generation of transparent LCD and OLED displays with sophisticated active matrix backplanes. These displays will serve larger addressable markets than previous generations of transparent displays. NanoMarkets now expects transparent displays to become a major factor in the rapidly growing digital signage market and also to replace older technologies in the heads-up displays (HUDs) used in aircrafts and automobiles.

Transparent displays could reach mass market volumes through the widespread adoption of augmented reality and telepresence applications that require their use. Apple has implied in recent patents that it will support augmented reality apps in its iPhone and has described a complex transparent display that could become standard in the iPhone, iPad and similar devices within a few years. Meanwhile, telepresence could bring to videoconferencing and distance learning the realism that these technologies have lacked. With Microsoft recently lending its support to transparent displays, it is even more likely that within a few years these displays will start to be sold in large numbers.

NanoMarkets also believes that increasing energy prices along with the development of advanced transparent materials will help drive the market for transparent solar panels and self-tinting windows. With regard to transparent solar panels, reductions in solar subsidies will give a boost to solar glass products that “lose” the cost of photovoltaics by integrating it into architectural glass. In addition, the advent of new thermochromic and electrochromic materials will enable significant improvements in self-tinting windows that are expected to be a vast improvement in terms of the ability to save energy over today’s low-performing windows of this kind.

Indeed, the transparent electronics “revolution” will largely be enabled by novel developments in materials. The current emphasis in transparent electronics is on oxide conductors and semiconductors, NanoMarkets believes transparent electronics will also serve as a new market for nanomaterials and perhaps even organic electronic materials.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the display, solar panel and smart windows industries and for materials suppliers that serves these industries. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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New NanoMarkets Report Gives First Look at “Transparent Electronics” Applications and Opportunities

Published: November 21, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the upcoming release of its latest market report titled “Transparent Electronics Markets – 2012”. In the past few years there has been much talk about “transparent electronics,” but few, if any, attempts to assess the potential size of this market or whether there are genuine opportunities to be found in it. This new NanoMarkets report fills this gap and provides the first assessment of transparent electronics from a commercial – rather than technological – perspective. The report covers both opportunities at the applications and at the materials level.

Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/transparent_electronics_markets_2012 .

NanoMarkets will begin shipping the report the week of December 5, 2011.

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The report begins with an examination of the applications that have been proposed to date for transparent electronics. Most of these have yet to be commercialized and in this survey we analyze each of the applications with a view to determining whether they have a real chance of generating new business revenues in the near-to-medium term future. Our assessment in this regard is based on how the sectors to which transparent electronics is being addressed have developed in the past and on NanoMarkets’ many years of experience assessing new technologies in the display, solar panel, TFT, and other related technologies.

This report also provides an in-depth assessment of the devices and materials that are likely to be used in transparent electronics. Here again, NanoMarkets is able to bring to the table its long experience of analyzing the market for transparent conductive oxides, a class on which transparent electronics will be highly reliant. The report also includes a revenue forecast and roadmap for transparent electronics for the period: 2012 to 2019.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the OLED lighting and materials business and has been covering these markets for more than five years.

Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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New NanoMarkets Report Explores Silver Lining for Silver Inks and Paste Market in 2012

Published: November 21, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the upcoming release of its latest market report covering the opportunities in the silver inks and pastes market. The report titled, “Silver Inks and Pastes Markets - 2012” will provide an up-to-date survey of the market conditions today and a forecast of the next eight years. NanoMarkets has been covering this sector now for more than five years and this is the latest in our ongoing series of industry analysis on silver conductors of various kinds.

Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/silver_inks_and_pastes_markets_2012. The report follows recent NanoMarkets reports on Silver Powders and Flakes, Sliver-Based Transparent Conductors, Nanosilver and Silver in Photovoltaics.

NanoMarkets will begin shipping the report the week of December 12, 2011.

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In the report, we consider how the persistent environment of relentlessly high silver prices is affecting the markets for these materials. Will this mean a sustained opportunity for alternatives to silver? We also identify the niche opportunities that continue to emerge from the traditional thick-film industry and conversely whether the profound changes going on in the display and solar panel industry will reduce the demand for silver. For example, will the reduction of subsidies for crystalline silicon solar panels (a large consumer of silver pastes) ultimately hurt the silver pastes business and similarly will the steady decline of the plasma display industry have a similar effect? Also examined in this report is the future of nanosilver inks, a product that has been full of unfulfilled promise for several years now. Is it time to give up on the commercialization of these materials?

This rather gloomy set of questions is balanced in the report by an examination of emerging opportunities. For example, large OLED lighting and television panels are just a few years out. Will they prove a vibrant market for printed silver bus lines and interconnects? In addition, in the new policy environment for solar panels, entirely new kinds of photovoltaics are likely to emerge quite quickly. Will they make use of silver in the electrodes the same way that older types of PV did? And all those sensors that will deployed as part of the “Internet of Things,” will they also make significant use of printed silver?

Companies addressed in the report will include: Advanced Nano Products, Cima NanoTech, Creative Materials, DIC Corporation/Sun Chemical, DuPont, Ferro Electronic Materials, Harima Chemical, Henkel Electronics, Heraeus, InkTec and Methode.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the OLED lighting and materials business and has been covering these markets for more than five years.

Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
(804) 270-4370
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Releases Report on Markets for Transparent Conductors in the Touch Screen Industry

Published: November 15, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announced the release of its latest market report on transparent conductors titled, “Markets for Transparent Conductors in Touch Screen Sensors - 2012.” In this report, NanoMarkets identifies and quantifies the markets for both indium tin oxide (ITO) and emerging transparent conductors for the sensors used to provide touch-screen capabilities in systems ranging from smartphones and tablet computers to information kiosks and ATMs. This report analyzes the full range of touch-screen technologies, but focuses on the dominant projected capacitive and analog resistive technologies. It also discusses the impact on the transparent conductor supply chain of touch sensors being integrated into the display by display makers themselves using in-cell and on-cell technology.

The touch display sensor sector has already made significant moves beyond ITO. With this in mind, this report also provides a detailed assessment of the role of conductive polymers, non-ITO transparent conducting oxides, nanosilver inks and carbon nanotube inks in the touch sector. Among the firms that are discussed in this report are: 3M, Agfa, Apple, AUO, Cambrios, Carestream, Cima NanoTech, Dai Nippon Printing, Dow Chemical, Ferro, Fujitsu, Heraeus, Hitachi, Kodak, LG, Nissha Printing, Nitto Denko, Oike, Optomec, PolyIC, Saint-Gobain, Samsung, Sigma Technologies, SKC Haas, Sumitomo, Sun Chemical, Solutia, Synaptics, TE Connectivity, Teijin, Toyo Baseki, Toray, and Unidym. The report also contains eight-year forecasts, broken out by application and type of material used.

Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at http://www.nanomarkets.net

From the Report:

Transparent conductive oxides, conductive polymers and nanosilver inks have already penetrated the touch sensor market. Buoyed by this success, new transparent conducting materials firms are rushing into the touch sector. However, this report warns that there will not be room in this sector for all new entrants as consumption of transparent conductors by display touch sensors in 2016 is unlikely to exceed $300 million.

Success will go to transparent conductor firms who have built strong partnerships with powerful touch sensor makers in Asia and especially those transparent conductor firms who can (1) demonstrate total costs of deposition and/or patterning that are lower than ITO or (2) transparency and conductivity performance that are improvements on ITO. Until recently a selling feature of some non-ITO transparent conductors was that they were not as easily damaged by pokes from styluses and fingers than ITO. With the rise of projected capacitive touch and the decline of analog resistive touch, this message is less important.

The report notes that while today touch sensors are provided by third party firms, in the future touch sensors will be built into displays by the display makers themselves. In turn, this means that transparent conductor firms will be selling to large Asian LCD manufacturers; notoriously hard customers to reach. On the other hand, for those who succeed the touch sector may well create an entrée into the huge market for transparent conductor material used in the LCD displays themselves.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the transparent conductor industry and has been providing industry analysis in this area for six years. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
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New NanoMarkets Report Projects Substantial Growth in the OLED Lighting Materials Market

Published: November 07, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials OLED Lighting

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the release of its latest market report covering the OLED lighting space. The report titled, “OLED Lighting Materials Markets: 2012” says that 2014 will be the year that OLED lighting begins to generate significant revenues for suppliers of OLED lighting materials. The report notes that the total market for OLED lighting materials will generate $1 billion (USD) in revenues in 2015.

This report is the latest update from NanoMarkets on the OLED lighting materials market and it quantifies the opportunities that are emerging from the nascent OLED lighting industry. The report analyzes the strategies of some of the key OLED lighting manufacturers like Philips, Osram, Lumiotec, and Visionox, and discusses the impact of their strategies on the materials sector. Finally, the report predicts what the latest market and technology developments will mean to the industry overall.

The report also contains detailed volume and revenue forecasts for materials used for OLED lighting broken out by material type and functionality in the OLED stack, as well as by OLED fabrication method – solution processing vs. vapor deposition, and small molecules vs. polymeric materials. In the report NanoMarkets says that revenues from emissive layer materials are expected to top $375 million by 2015, and over 90% of this will come from sales of vapor-deposited small molecule materials. And while solution-processable materials still have the potential to revolutionize OLED lighting with respect to increasing throughput and lowering costs, recent setbacks have pushed their impact beyond the timeframe of this report

Additional details about the report are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net/oled_lighting. The report follows recent NanoMarkets reports on OLED lighting manufacturing, OLED lighting global market forecasts, OLED encapsulation and OLED materials markets.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the OLED lighting and materials business and has been covering these markets for more than five years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
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NanoMarkets Releases New Report on Markets for Molybdenum in Solar, OLEDs and Other Apps

Published: October 26, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices OLED Lighting Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announced the release of its latest market report on electrode materials titled, “Molybdenum Markets in the Electronics and Solar Industries -2011.” In this report, NanoMarkets identifies and quantifies the markets for molybdenum in important emerging markets including solar panels, displays and advanced lighting. In addition to covering novel uses of molybdenum itself, this report also looks at emerging applications for molybdenum compounds such as molybdenum disilicide, molybdenum disulfide, molybdenum oxide, and molybdenum-doped zinc oxide.

While this report focuses on the use of molybdenum for electrode applications, it also discusses the current and future use of molybdenum and its compounds in related markets such as heating elements and sealants. Among the firms that are discussed in this report are American Elements, Angstrom Sciences, Avancis, First Solar, GE, Honda Soltec, Kurt J. Lasker, Q-Cells, Samsung, Soltecture, Sylhan and Würth Solar. As with other NanoMarkets reports, this report on molybdenum pinpoints opportunities and also provides eight-year forecasts, broken out by application.

Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at http://www.nanomarkets.net

From the Report:
Molybdenum’s high conductivity and especially its ability to adhere to CIGS absorber layers has made it the dominant material for bottom contacts in the CIGS solar panel sector, a sector that is expected to grow rapidly over in the near future. In addition, NanoMarkets believes that the strong performance of molybdenum in the CIGS sector will encourage its use in other solar panel sectors; especially in the CdTe solar panels, which, to date have been the most successful of all the thin-film photovoltaics offerings.

There is also considerable R&D work currently being carried on into using molybdenum in and molybdenum compounds for OLED displays and lighting. The new NanoMarkets report notes that, although OLED technology has considerable market potential over the next decade and has received backing from the largest firms in displays, smartphones and lighting, it is still struggling to find optimal electrode materials. In particular, the OLED industry is desperately seeking electrode materials that are less vulnerable to corrosion and which can lead to higher performance for the OLEDs themselves.

While NanoMarkets believes that molybdenum will find new markets in the electronics and solar panel industry in the near future, the report also notes that much will depend on its pricing. If inflationary trends ultimately lead to much higher prices for molybdenum, solar panel makers and other users will look for ways to avoid molybdenum, with aluminum and copper serving as acceptable substitutes in the solar panel industry, for example.

About NanoMarkets:
NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the display, solar panels and lighting industry and has been covering the market for electrodes and electrode materials for these markets for more than four years.
Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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NanoMarkets Releases New Report on Markets for Flexible Glass Used in Displays, Solar and Other Apps

Published: October 26, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices Renewable Energy

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announced the release of its latest market report on substrate and encapsulation materials titled, Markets for Flexible Glass – 2011. In this report NanoMarkets quantifies the opportunities for ultra-thin glass that is sufficiently flexible for use in roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing and in lightweight displays, as well as intrinsically flexible products such as rollable displays and conformable solar panels.

While the majority of revenues generated by flexible glass will come from sales into the display and solar industries, this report also looks at other applications including lighting and sensors. It also, examines how flexible glass will compete against plastics, sheet metal, metal foils and other flexible substrates. In addition, the report discusses the manufacturing challenges that still remain for flexible glass and the likely roadmap for this material as it enters the marketplace.

Among the firms and major research facilities that are discussed in this report are AGC (Asahi Glass), Corning, DuPont, DuPont Teijin Films, ITRI, Lawrence Berkley National Lab, LiSEC Nippon Glass, and Tokyo Electron Glass.

Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at www.nanomarkets.net

From the Report:

Flexible glass will be a great leap forward as enabling technology for roll-to-roll (R2R) fabrication of high-performance e-paper and OLED displays. It offers the high transparency, robustness and good barrier properties associated with glass, while at the same time providing lower manufacturing costs. The advantages of flexible glass as a substrate in R2R processes have recently been demonstrated in joint development work done by Corning and ITRI (Taiwan). R2R processing using flexible glass is also expected to drive flexible glass into the solar panel sector within the next couple of years.

Thin glass is an established way to reduce weight in glass products such as windows. Ultra-thin flexible glass will continue this tradition for mobile displays; where low weight for laptops, tablets and smartphones is a key marketing factor. Flexible glass will also have an important role in weight reduction for the solar panels, since here weight reduction avoids the need for special roofing support. While intrinsically flexible products such as rollable displays and comformable building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) panels offer good prospects for flexible glass, large sales of flexible glass for these products lie three to five years away.

Although the first flexible glass products are likely to be premium priced, but the price of this novel kind of glass will come down quickly, since the volume of glass used for a given area is less with flexible glass than with conventional glass. However, considerable manufacturing challenges remain for flexible glass itself. Firms marketing flexible glass will have to demonstrate sufficient mechanical reliability for R2R fabrication; flexible glass will have to offer high strength edges and surfaces as well as control of stresses during device manufacturing. End users will also have to be assured that patterning from a spooled glass substrate can be effectively achieved.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the substrate and encapsulation business for displays, solar panels and lighting and has been covering these markets for more than four years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Releases New OLED Materials Report, Markets for OLED Encapsulation – 2011

Published: October 18, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials OLED Lighting

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets announces the release of its latest market report on OLED materials titled, Markets for OLED Encapsulation – 2011. In the report NanoMarkets ties the opportunities for OLED encapsulation suppliers to the emergence of OLED lighting. And while NanoMarkets predicts a modest but still significant market potential for OLED encapsulation of approximately $170 million ($US) in the year 2016, this time period will also coincide with the emergence of OLED lighting as a volume market leading to significant upside for encapsulation suppliers.

Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at www.nanomarkets.net

About the report:

In this new report, NanoMarkets, analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for encapsulation suppliers in the fast-growing OLED market. We examine the product development and marketing strategies of the major players in the OLED encapsulation materials sector, from large multinationals like 3M, DuPont and Corning to specialty firms like Tera Barrier Films, and we also attempt to indicate which are the “companies to watch” and which will be the likely winners and losers in the encapsulation materials space. Finally, this report contains detailed, eight-year forecasts of the OLED encapsulation market broken out by product type and by OLED application.

From the Report:

OLED firms are beginning to recognize that high quality encapsulation is an area of strategic importance. NanoMarkets believes that we are now seeing some real opportunities for the firms that have been working on the encapsulation issue, many of whom have poured resources into this area for several years. In fact, encapsulation is the key enabling technology for the larger-format/longer lifetime OLEDs that will be entering the market in the near- to mid-term, and thus can unlock entire market segments.

Small, rigid OLED displays are now widely commercially available and expected to continue to expand, principally in smartphone and other mobile computing displays and the OLED TV market is finally poised to take off within the next few years, as display manufacturers launch newer, bigger models with better value propositions for customers.

The emergence of the OLED lighting industry will be the defining opportunity for OLED materials suppliers turning a niche market into a significant opportunity after 2015.

Glass encapsulation technologies heavily dominate the market today, and glass will continue to dominate in the near- to mid-term. However, the consensus is that glass will not be sufficient for the types of OLEDs expected to emerge over the next decade. OLED panels are getting larger, and the emerging lighting and TV markets expect OLED panels to last much longer than the mobile phone and mp3 sub-displays of the past. Furthermore, the cost pressures are getting more serious. The days in which manufacturers were willing to pay high premiums for good encapsulation strategies are long gone, and low-cost options for encapsulation are now demanded.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the OLED materials business and has been covering these markets for more than four years.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
(804) 360-2967
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NanoMarkets Issues New Report Analyzing the State of OLED Lighting Manufacturing

Published: September 28, 2011 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm, NanoMarkets today announced the release of its newest report on the OLED lighting market. The report, "A Capacity and Opportunity Analysis of OLED Lighting Manufacturing" is the next in the firm's on-going coverage of this space. Details from this and other OLED lighting reports can be found at http://www.nanomarkets.net/oled_lighting
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Previous OLED lighting reports from NanoMarkets have provided granular market forecasts, assessments of European and Asian market opportunities, materials and the business case for OLED lighting.

The report also includes an eight-year forecast of OLED lighting manufacturing capacity broken out by individual manufacturer and whether the facilities will use solution processing or more conventional fabrication. An assessment of necessary investment levels for the manufacturing infrastructure is also part of this new report.

Among the firms covered in this report are: Aixtron, Applied Materials, AUO, Cannon Anelva, DuPont, GE, Kaneka, Kateeva, Konica Minolta, LG Chem, Lumiotec, Mitsubishi, Ledon, Moser Baer, NEC, Osram, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, PolyPhotonix, Rohm, Samsung, Sunic, Tokki, UDC, Ulvac, Veeco, and Visionox.

Key Findings from this report:

While several firms have announced ambitious revenue goals for OLED lighting, no company has yet progressed beyond the pilot plant level for OLED manufacturing. NanoMarkets predicts that it will ultimately take billions of dollars in investment to achieve production levels required to meet these revenue objectives. In today’s difficult investment climate, NanoMarkets expects to see the rise of OLED “foundries” which will fabricate OLEDs for those lighting firms who have chosen a fabless business model. The report also says that some OLED lighting firms will use depreciated OLED display production lines where they are available.

NanoMarkets believes that in the long run, the only way for price points to get low enough to turn OLED lighting into a mass market will be when full-scale solution processing can be put into operation. But there are still significant problems to be resolved. For example, there is still little understanding how to print layers that are just 10-50 nm thick at high speed. Layers this thin are not unusual in the case of OLEDs.

GE and others have made good progress with regard to yields from solution processing plants. But for now, vapor deposition is king of the hill when it comes to fabricating OLEDs. One compromise solution may arrive in the form of hybrid technologies such as organic vapor jet printing” which combines the best of OVPD with inkjet.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the emerging OLED lighting industry, which it has been covering for almost six years. This coverage includes regularly updated forecasts of OLED lighting markets, reflecting real world market conditions. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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Alternative TCOs will reach $925 million in 2016

Published: September 26, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, Virginia: NanoMarkets, the recognized leader in research and analysis for transparent conductors and related markets has announced the release of a new report titled, “Emerging Markets for Non-ITO Transparent Conductive Oxides” that addresses the markets for “alternative” transparent conductive oxides (TCOs). In its report NanoMarkets predicts that by 2016 the market for these alternative TCOs will reach $925 million.

Emerging Markets for Non-ITO Transparent Conductive Oxides analyzes applications for these alternatives to indium tin oxide materials in LCD, e-paper, plasma and OLED displays; touch-screen sensors; thin-film and organic photovoltaics, OLED lighting; low-e windows and smart windows; solar control film, antistatics and RFI/EMI shielding. The report also discusses the opportunities for TCOs as an alternative to amorphous silicon in thin-film transistors.

Materials covered in the report include FTO, ATO, AZO, GZO, IZO, Multicomponent Amorphous TCOs (MATCOs) and p-type materials. The firms discussed in the report are 3M, Advanced Nano Products, Arkema, Asahi Glass, Cardinal Glass, Cathay Advanced Materials, DyeTech Solar, First Solar, Hewlett-Packard, Idemitsu, Kurt J. Lesker, Mitsubishi Materials, Nanophase, Philips Lighting, Pilkington, SAGE Electrochromic, Samsung, Solutia, Sony, Thin-Film Devices, Toshoh, Umicore and, US Research Nanomaterials.

Additional details about this report, “Emerging Markets for Non-ITO Transparent Conductive Oxides” are at www.nanomarkets.net.

Key Findings from this report:

Fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) could be the next ITO! It is already the dominant transparent conductor used for the highly successful CdTe versions of photovoltaics. In addition, FTO has been extensively used in low-emittance (low-e) architectural windows, which are used to control costs in commercial buildings. According to US Department of Energy the market for low-e windows continues to grow extremely fast despite the recessionary conditions in the construction industry. The fact that this opportunity is very much “here and now” means that it should be of special importance to materials suppliers, according to NanoMarkets. Meanwhile, FTO has also been proposed for use in plasma displays, dye sensitive cell (DSC) solar and even as a replacement for some silver coatings.

TCOs are not just for electrode materials anymore either. NanoMarkets believes that there are significant opportunities for these materials in thin-film transistor channels. In fact, there are already signs that they will be used in TFT channels for improved economics and performance in the AMOLEDs that are now rapidly penetrating the mobile display industry and will soon be used in TVs. In addition, the arrival of p-type TCOs, suggests a future of completely transparent electronics and PV and LEDs constructed from non-toxic materials.

NanoMarkets expects antinomy tin oxide (ATO) in its nanomaterial form to break into new markets. It is already gaining ground on nano-ITO in heat shielding and antistatics and NanoMarkets believes that it will even be able to compete with conducting polymers. The patent literature also describes several gas sensors constructed of ATO thick films. Printable ATO inks have already been developed that allow for the patterning of ATO thin films. Some of the high profile companies that have done work in the ATO space include 3M, British Gas, Corning, Harima Chemicals and Ulvac.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the transparent conductor, nanomaterials, display and photovoltaics spaces. Our company has also provided insight through regular reports on the ITO market for the past six years. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
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NanoMarkets Releases New Report Printed Gold: Gold Inks and Pastes Market – 2011

Published: September 19, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report titled, “Printed Gold: Gold Inks and Pastes Market – 2011” that examines the markets for gold inks and pastes in the electronics and solar industries. The report discusses both the gold pastes used in traditional applications such as wire bonding and brazing and a new breed of inks based gold nanoparticles. These next-generation inks are expected to find uses in MEMS, data storage and computer memory, “green” electronics, photovoltaics (PV) and sensors. NanoMarkets estimates that the total volume of gold consumed by gold inks and pastes for electronics and PV applications will reach 13.7 tonnes by 2016.

This report provides eight-year projections (both volume and value) of all major applications in which gold inks and pastes are, or will be, used. These projections also include a breakout by the kind of printing process used: jetting, screen or flexo/grave. Among the firms discussed in this report are: Bellman-Melcor, Bosch, Brazetec, DuPont, Ercon, ESL Electroscience, Hitachi, IBM, Indium Corporation, Johnson Matthey, Krohn, Samsung and Umicore. The report also includes an analysis of research taking place at Berkeley, ETH, Rensselaer, UCLA, University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo, VTT and other major research centers.

Additional details about this report are at www.nanomarkets.net.

Key Findings:

Although the gold pastes market is mature, NanoMarkets sees an opportunity for “nanopastes,” which would serve traditional thick-film markets but could provide significantly lower processing costs. However, according to NanoMarkets the main new business opportunities for the materials considered in this report will come mainly from novel applications using “nanoinks”

One of these opportunities may come from printing a thin layer of gold nanoparticles on optical disks, such as CDs and DVDs, which could greatly increase the amount of information being stored. Gold nanorods, in particular, have been noted as a material that can help provide new technology strategies for optical information storage.

A printed layer of gold nanoparticles may also help to boost the efficiency of solar panels and, in this context, NanoMarkets notes that, in general, printing has taken on a growing role in PV in recent years. Also, the report says that the market for gold inks and pastes will be driven not just by the rise of alternative energy sources but also by environmental regulation. For example, the report says that gold pastes will benefit commercially from the regulatory requirements for lead-free electronics that have gone into force in both Europe and the U.S. In addition, there are increasing concerns by regulators with regard to nanosilver and printed nanogold may serve as a good substitute in some applications.

Yet another opportunity that NanoMarkets sees for printed gold is in sensors. Gold is already a common material in sensors, although today it mostly plated. But printing is becoming more established as a fabrication tool for making sensors – especially for large area sensors -- so there will be a fit for printed gold opportunities in the future.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the nanomaterials, transparent conductor and photovoltaics spaces and provides ongoing coverage of many of the firms active in the functional inks space, which it has covered for more than six years. It is also recognized worldwide as a leading source of expertise for materials used in the PV industry. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
rob@nanomarkets.net

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Silver-Based Transparent Conductors Market to Surpass $540 million by 2016

Published: September 07, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report on the markets for silver-based transparent conducting materials. NanoMarkets sees revenues from the sale of silver-based transparent conductors reaching more than $540 million by 2016. Details about this report, Markets for Silver-based Transparent Conductors -- 2011 report are at www.nanomarkets.net.

This report analyzes the demand for the silver-based inks and films that are beginning to find their way into touch-screen displays and which, according to NanoMarkets, may also be used in conventional flat panel displays (FPD). Other applications where the report predicts silver-based transparent conducting materials will be used include OLED and e-paper displays, OLED lighting, thin-film and organic photovoltaics, anti-statics and EMI/RFI shielding.

The report provides eight-year projections (both volume and value) of all of the application areas listed above. It also identifies what the implications are for other kinds of transparent conductor including carbon nanotubes, transparent conducting oxides and conductive polymers as well as the dominant ITO. Among the firms discussed in this report are: 3M, Agfa, Cambrios, Carestream, Cima NanoTech, Dow Chemical, Fujifilm, Ferro, Kodak, PolyIC, Saint-Gobain, Sigma Technologies, Sumitomo, Suzhou NanoGrid and Toray.

Key Findings from this report:

The touch-screen displays business may be a good starting place for silver-based transparent conductor businesses, and this is the market that most of the firms selling “transparent silver” are aiming their marketing strategies at. But NanoMarkets believes that the longer-term revenue potential for touch screens will be limited. The new report indicates that touch-screen sensors will generate only $65.4 million in silver-based transparent conductor sales by 2016.

According to NanoMarkets, the only way for the materials discussed in this report to take off commercially in a big way will be if the firms that supply them overcome the resistance of the major FPD firms to making the switch from ITO. Encouragingly, this new report indicates that we are seeing the first signs of this happening. But it also warns that if significant barriers to entry persist in the display industry, silver-based transparent conductors will never amount to more than a niche business.

However, if the conventional display industry does open up to silver-based transparent conductors, the market is likely to need these materials delivered in new forms. In the same way that large display manufacturers now do their own ITO sputtering, display firms of the future will want to print their own transparent silver conductors. This will means that today’s tiny share of the silver transparent conductor market held by inks will increase rapidly at the expense of the films that currently dominate. NanoMarkets also expects to see a growing market for silver-based transparent conductors on glass substrates.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the nanomaterials, transparent conductors and other materials used in the display and photovoltaics industries. It also provides ongoing coverage of all the firms supplying silver-based transparent conductors. NanoMarkets is also recognized worldwide as a leading source of expertise for materials used in the PV industry.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Adds Report Printed Gold: Gold Ink and Pastes Market – 2011 to Firm’s Schedule

Published: September 01, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report, Printed Gold: Gold Ink and Pastes Market – 2011 to the firm’s publication schedule. The report is scheduled to be released the week of September 19, 2011. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication rates. Additional details are available on the firm’s website at http://www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

Although silver inks are expected to maintain a dominant role in printed electronics, gold is expected to account for a profitable niche for ink makers. In a sense, there is nothing new in this gold pastes have been used for quite some time in traditional chip and wired circuits. However, several ink makers and research teams are now taking printed gold to the next stage with the development of nano-gold inks that are being pitched at novel applications ranging from sensors to photovoltaics.

This report assesses and quantifies the applications – new and old – for gold inks and pastes. It examines the products and firms that make up the printed gold business and the marketing strategies that are being used in this interesting sector. The also report contains eight-year market forecasts broken out both by application and by gold ink/paste chemistry and printing technology type. In addition, we consider what the impact of the current very high price of gold will have on the printed gold sector.

This report draws on NanoMarkets ongoing coverage of metallic inks and pastes.

Coverage:

Gold inks and pastes: technology evolution
• Impact of exploding gold prices on printed gold
• Key markets and a roadmap for gold inks and pastes
• Opportunities for the gold industry
• Opportunities for ink makers
• Firms to watch

Gold Inks and Pastes: Products and Technologies
• Gold vs. copper and silver for printed electronics
• Pastes and inks that use gold with other metals
• Gold pastes for thick-film electronics
• Traditional role of gold in thick-film electronics
• Future evolution of gold pastes
• Major suppliers and their strategies
• Nano-gold inks
• Gold ink chemistries
• Major suppliers and their strategies
• Inkjet and other printing modes for nano-gold inks
• Sintering and substrates

Markets for Gold Inks and Pastes
• Gold in traditional thick-film electronics markets
• Emerging semiconductor applications
• MEMS
• Data storage
• Lead-free electronics
• Electrode applications in organic electronics
• OLEDs
• OTFTs
• Printed gold as a substitute for ITO
• Sensors and RFID
• Uses for gold inks and pastes in photovoltaics
• Related graphics applications

Market Forecasts: by application, ink/paste type and by printing technology used with alternative scenarios considered.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of printed electronics and provides ongoing coverage of many of the firms active in the inks space. It is recognized worldwide as a leading source of expertise for functional printing and nanomaterials more generally. Please visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
rob@nanomarkets.net

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New White Papers Related to Photovoltaics, Conductive Coatings, Smart Windows and Silver Powders

Published: September 01, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released five new white papers available for download from the NanoMarkets website that address areas related to photovoltaics, conductive coatings, smart windows and silver flakes and powders. There is no cost associated with accessing the papers at http://www.nanomarkets.net. The data for the papers was drawn from the firms’ ongoing research into market opportunities presented through developments in advanced materials and emerging energy and electronics markets.

Available Papers:

Smart Windows: Demand for smart windows, or windows with functional capabilities such as self-cleaning and variable tinting in response to electrical or thermal changes, will be driven by the green building movement, attraction to the convenience they provide and the potential for cost savings. NanoMarkets believes that the market for smart windows will grow substantially over the next eight years, becoming a billion-dollar market by 2015 and then more than doubling by 2018. Link

CIGS Photovoltaics: While, copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) has achieved the highest champion cell efficiencies (over 20%) of all thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) technologies in the laboratory, it has not, however, lived up to predictions about is ability to compete with crystalline silicon (c-Si). However, recent capacity expansions, a dramatic increase in the number of market players and growing investment activity are signaling renewed interest. NanoMarkets, expects revenues from CIGS consumed in PV applications to grow from $613.4 million in 2011 to $5.41 billion in 2018. Link

Conductive Coatings: NanoMarkets also believes that there are growing number of newer opportunities for conductive coatings as new types of batteries, displays, lighting and solar panels that are begin to appear on the market. These newer product types will require entirely new conductive materials for their electrodes and help drive the value of the conductive coatings market to $14.8 billion revenues in 2017. Link

Dye Sensitized Cell Photovoltaics: Manufacturers of dye-sensitized cells (DSC) are shifting their attention to new applications where the capabilities of this PV technology can be better sold such as the building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) space and applications where the available light is limited. NanoMarkets believes that revenues from DSC sales will climb from $28 million in 2011 to $4.89 billion in 2018. Link

Silver Flakes and Powders: Although the market for silver powder and flake products have been buffeted by rising silver prices, opportunities do exist for suppliers able to offer customized high quality powders and flakes, value-added nanosilvers, and lower-cost yet high-performance silver-coated hybrid materials. NanoMarkets, estimates the value of the silver powder and flake market to be $8.7 billion in 2011 and expects it will increase to $16.35 billion by 2018. Link

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials and their impact on emerging energy and electronics markets. The firm provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the nanomaterials, OLED lighting, transparent conductor and photovoltaics spaces. It is also recognized worldwide as a leading source of expertise for materials used in the PV industry. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Releases New Report on Markets for Indium-Based Materials in the Photovoltaics Industry

Published: August 31, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report on the markets for indium-based materials in the rapidly growing photovoltaics (PV) industry. The report discusses several materials that are widely used in PV including indium tin oxide (ITO), which is used as a transparent conductor in several sectors of the industry; as well as CIGS, one of the fastest types of PV in which indium is a crucial part of the core absorber layer. The report also examines the role that indium phosphide (InP) may play in the future of photovoltaics.

The report provides eight-year projections (both volume and value) of all of these areas including forecasts of the amount of indium consumed by application and type of material. It also identifies where the opportunities are for the indium industry in PV and where indium-based materials are being supplanted by non-indium based materials. Among the firms discussed in this report are: , American Elements, Avancis, China Germanium, China Tin, First Solar, Global Solar, Honda, HelioVolt, Huludao Zinc, Indium Corporation, ISET, MCC Huludao Nonferrous, Mitsui, Nanosolar, Nanoco, Nippon Mining, Nitto Denko, Q-Cells Modules, Sanyo, Showa Shell, Soltecture, SoloPower, Sputtering Materials, Sumitomo, Ulvac, Umicore, Würth, Zhuzhou Keneng New Materials and Zhuzhou Smelter.

Additional details about this report, Markets for Indium-based Materials in Photovoltaics report are at http://www.nanomarkets.net.

Key Findings from this report:

The main driver for indium use in the PV industry is the growth of CIGS PV, which will rapidly penetrate conventional PV panels, BIPV and portable PV. Despite the many substitutes for ITO, significant usage of ITO will continue by PV firms; ITO finds widespread use in a-Si, DSC and OPV PV.

Although alternative deposition methods for ITO and CIGS are often touted, important users in the PV industry prefer sputtering. NanoMarkets believes that for CIGS space there will be a growing opportunity to sell composite targets containing indium, copper, and gallium. Also alloy sputtering targets are attractive because of their higher throughput and reduced system cost.

ITO inks are still sold, but seem to be losing out to transparent conducting nanomaterial inks. CIGS inks have potential, but NanoMarkets believes that it is by no means assured that printed CIGS will become a major part of part of the PV industry going forward. None of the CIGS inks are currently available in high volume and the history of printed CIGS has been disappointing. If printed CIGS does take off, however, NanoMarkets sees an opportunity for nanopowder firms to sell related materials to the relevant ink makers.

NanoMarkets expects that the PV industry will start to use more indium phosphide (InP) as the industry seeks out next-generation PV technologies. But for now, InP PV is much too costly and is not used much outside of a lab and for selected applications in the aerospace industry. However, NanoMarkets notes that InP consumes very large quantities of indium per unit of cell area.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the nanomaterials, transparent conductor and photovoltaics spaces and provides ongoing coverage of many of the firms active in the indium and indium-based materials space. It is also recognized worldwide as a leading source of expertise for materials used in the PV industry. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
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NanoMarkets Report on Radiation Detection Materials Industry Sees $2.7 billion Opportunity in 2016

Published: August 23, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report on the radiation detection materials market. The report quantifies the market for scintillation, thin-film, and semiconductor detection materials used for domestic security, military, medical imaging, nuclear power, science and geophysical applications. Also included is an in-depth assessment of the opportunities for a broad range of materials including sodium iodide, lanthanum bromide, cesium iodide, strontium iodide, cadmium compounds, silicates, halides, oxides, plastics/polymers, GaAs and nanocrystals among others.

The report contains more than 40 separate eight-year forecasts of the radiation detection materials market with detailed breakouts by material and applications. It also discusses the activities and strategies of leading firms active in this space.

Among the firms mentioned in this report are Alpha Spectra, Canberra Industries, GE, Hamamatsu, Hilger, Hitachi, Horiba, Kodak, Lambda Photonics, Nucsafe, Omega Piezo, ORTEC, Radcom, Redlen, Rexon, Saint Gobain, Samsung, SIAC and Varian.

Additional details about this report, Radiation Detection Materials Markets – 2011 are at http://tinyurl.com/3pnoalp

Key Findings:

While the overall market for radiation detection is expected to experience only modest growth NanoMarkets sees considerable opportunity for higher-performance and lower- cost radiation detection materials to meet demand from domestic security and medical imaging markets. Both of these markets are making more use of radiation detectors and have growing needs for higher sensitivities and mobile detection systems; needs that only detectors based on new materials can satisfy.

Scintillation-based radiation detectors currently represent more than 70 percent of the radiation detector market and will remain the only cost-effective radiation detection solutions in many cases. However, users are looking for these systems to provide better light output and linearity as well as energy resolution. As a result, NanoMarkets believes that there will be strong demand for detectors based on novel materials – such oxides, simple salts, silicates and plastics -- that can help meet these needs.

Semiconductor detectors will mostly stay the detector of choice for high-performance applications. But according to the NanoMarkets report, this part of market is desperately in need of new materials that are less expensive; materials for semiconductor detectors can cost ten times those for scintillation detectors. There is also strong demand for detectors in this class that need less sophisticated cooling systems that can be easily provided outside of the laboratory.

These requirements for semiconductor detectors will mean that the high-performance germanium (HPGe) that is now dominant in this segment will lose share to other materials. CdZnTe (CZT) is seen as having considerable promise as a room temperature radiation detector, but there will be strong growth from silicon and GaAs detectors too. According to NanoMarkets, CZT will not just displace current HPGe units, but will expand the addressable markets for high-performance detectors into areas where scintillation detection is current exclusively employed.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the latest commercial technologies in the electronics and energy sectors and other related areas and is recognized worldwide as a leading source of industry analysis in these areas.

Please visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Issues Report on Emerging Nanosilver Materials Markets, Sees $1.2 billion Market by 2016

Published: August 11, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

News Release

August 11, 2011

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets is announcing the release of its latent report on industrial silver markets, “Nanosilver Markets – 2011.” NanoMarkets estimates that the total market for nanosilver materials and coating products is valued at about $290 million in 2011, and that it will to grow over the forecast period to about $1.2 billion by 2016. Additional details about the report are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net. The report will begin shipping on August 17, 2011.

From the Report:

The most obvious factor affecting commercialization of nanosilver is the persistently high commodity price of silver that will not likely decline any time soon. While this situation can have a cooling effect on growth in some nanosilver markets, especially in traditional electronics applications employing silver, we believe that it may actually help others to emerge.

In the electronics sector, the gap between cost-in-use of conventional silver materials and nanosilver has narrowed significantly, and this may encourage some customers’ to finally make the switch to higher performance nanosilver technologies. We have identified significant opportunities for penetration in emerging printed electronics employing either ink-jet or high-speed printing, both of which are particularly compatible with nanosilver, and in fabrication of PVs, where the need to reduce precious metal contents is giving some nanosilver inks and pastes a real chance to succeed. However, NanoMarkets believes that major business development work will be required to convince potential customers to change their processes; it will be important to demonstrate tangible cost-in-use benefits in addition to performance improvements.

Other markets, namely the antimicrobial and transparent conductor markets, are largely unaffected by high silver prices. Nanosilver-based transparent conductors, which are now reported to have performance levels meeting or exceeding ITO, use very low levels of actual metal, so high silver prices are simply not a factor. And while the value of this market based on the nanosilver content alone is not particularly impressive, the value based on the finished good – the transparent ink or coating technology – is quite high even with very modest overall penetration.

Similarly, antimicrobial applications for nanosilver will succeed or fail based on performance and market-pull, and since these are applications where nanosilver is not trying to replace conventional silver or other, less expensive materials, high silver commodity prices have minimal impact. Furthermore, the addressable market for antimicrobial nanosilver applications – the most promising of which are value-added consumer goods from a wide variety of markets and end-uses – is very large, so modest growth rates are expected to lead to significant revenues over the next decade.

About the report:

This report analyzes the opportunities for various nanosilver materials in several relevant markets including nanosilver pastes and conductive adhesives; nanosilver inks for both ink-jet and other printing methods; nanosilver materials used in the fabrication of antimicrobial consumer goods or medical products; nanosilver-based transparent conductors; and nanosilver materials for industrial oxidation catalysts. The report also discusses the strategies of some of the leading suppliers of nanosilver materials and technologies and includes a detailed eight-year forecast for all of the applications and material types both in volume and value terms.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the silver inks business and has been covering this market for more than four years. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
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NanoMarkets Publishes New Study on the Market for Printed Batteries, Sees Viable Niche Market

Published: August 11, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

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August 11, 2011

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report on the opportunities available to companies that plan to sell printed batteries into a number of evolving end user markets. The report continues the firm’s coverage of the thin battery market dating back to 2006 and is a companion to a May 2011 release on thin-film batteries.

Overall NanoMarkets considers the printed batteries business as a niche market that will create reasonable revenues in the coming years but fraught with risk and a business unlikely to support more than a few companies. The firm sees the market for printed batteries to be worth approximately $370 million in revenues in 2016 with smartcards the dominant application for most of the period forecast in the report with RFID, disposable electronics and sensor applications providing the bulk of the remaining revenues. Those companies that will survive will have to do more than simply be well capitalized, they will have to be proactive in pursuing a vertical integration strategy to find applications for their printed battery products or in building close alliances with OEMs.

Additional details about this report, “Printed Battery Markets – 2011” including an excerpt are available are available on the firm's website.

Report Details:

The report projects both the volumes and the value of printed batteries used in powered smart cards, RFID, smart packaging, electronic shelf labels, cosmetic and pharmaceutical patches, smart bandages, military and civilian sensors, and disposable electronics. The battery chemistries covered in this report include the common zinc manganese dioxide and carbon zinc types. The opportunities for using lithium battery chemistries in the printed battery space as well as more advanced chemistries that are still in the lab are also explored. The market forecasts in the report run from 2011 to 2018.

This report identifies both immediate and longer-term opportunities for printed batteries including how they may work with energy harvesting devices. In addition, it analyzes the product/marketing strategies that employed by leading printed batteries manufacturers and related companies. Among the firms discussed in this report are Blue Spark, Enfucell, Power ID, Ntera, PARC, Planar Energy Devices, Power Paper, Prelonic Technologies, Rocket, Solicore, VARTA Microbattery and VTT.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the printed electronics space and publishes timely reports on both the printed and thin-film battery sectors. NanoMarkets is recognized worldwide as a leading source of expertise and information on commercial opportunities of the latest technologies. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Releases New Report on Ink Markets for Functional Inkjet Printing

Published: August 08, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report on the ink-related opportunities stemming from the growth of functional jetting; the manufacturing of products using industrial inkjet. 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.

Additional details about this report, Functional Inkjet Inks for Digital Fabrication report are at http://www.nanomarkets.net.

Key Findings:

NanoMarkets’ analysis of the functional inkjet materials market suggests that there are significant opportunities to generate revenues from this sector in the next few years. Of particular immediate importance will be a variety of applications in the areas of security printing, brand protection and smart packaging applications, which take on special importance in our troubled economy and when cybercrime is on the rise. Another will be for jetted resists for PCBs.

The report also examines the types of functional jetting inks that will be needed in the future. Solvent inks are expected to gradually increase their current 40 percent of the functional inkjet ink market. One reason for this is the effort by ink makers to use common industrial solvents for their fluids as a way of keeping cost low and making them user friendly to newer users. Although aqueous inks are low-cost and perhaps the best road forward to the first off-the-shelf functional inks, they will lose market share because they are limited in the kinds of substrates they can be used on.

NanoMarkets sees the opportunities for functional ink makers as immediate, but also identifies high-volume opportunities of the future. By the end of the forecast period in 2018, more than 20 percent of the revenues for functional inkjet inks is expected to come from “desktop manufacturing,” a new kind of jetted fabrication technology that will have the same disruptive impact that desktop publishing did two decades ago. But this will require off-the-shelf functional inks; a type of ink that does not exist yet. This report also projects strong growth for bio-inks for arrays and biochips as these devices move out of the lab and into mainstream diagnostics.

About NanoMarkets:

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report, Functional Inkjet Inks for Digital Fabrication Applications -2011

Published: August 03, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA:Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced a new addition to its publication line up titled, “Functional Inkjet Inks for Digital Fabrication Applications -2011” that will be released the week of August 10^th.

About the Report:

This new report is designed to analyze and quantify the market opportunities for materials firms, ink makers and the specialty chemical industry that are emerging from the use of inkjet technology for manufacturing products and prototypes.

NanoMarkets notes that Digital fabrication as a whole has been received considerable attention over the past year or so and for a number of reasons. Because it is an additive technology it is less wasteful of materials. Because it can rapidly produce highly customized products it is already widely used as a way to reduce costs and speed up prototyping in the aerospace, automobile, semiconductor, and other industries. The unique ability of digital fabrication to customize has also made it a staple technology in niches where this is critical; decorative lampshades are an example. And at the policy level, digital fabrication has variously been seen as a way to help industrialize lesser developed countries and to reindustrialize nations that have adopted service economies.

The many advantages of digital manufacturing has lead both The Economist and Wired to predict that a digital manufacturing revolution is just around the corner and, should this turn out to be case, there is little doubt that industrial inkjet technology will be key to this revolution’s success. “Jetted fabrication” offers many unique advantages. It can support deposition and patterning of many different kinds of materials, for example. It can also create very small features, enabling quite sophisticated end products to be fabricated. In addition, jetting is a well understood and relatively low cost printing technology, which will lower the barriers to entry to digital fabrication markets.

As the office and home printer markets for inkjet become fully saturated, many in the inkjet business have seen new opportunities in digital fabrication. This is already a major preoccupation for makers of equipment and print heads and service bureau. However, the opportunities for ink makers and specialty chemical companies that are inherent in jetted manufacturing may not be as apparent.

With this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this report, which is designed to guide firms to where the ink-related new business potential is to be found. It examines the key ink-types that will make money over the coming decade for functional printing as well as a time table for the emerging markets for these materials. As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report contains a granular eight-year forecast of inks for jetted fabrication as well as an analysis of the firms that are active in this space.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has issued numerous reports and content releases related to transparent conductors, conductive coatings and inks and related materials. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report Titled, “Nanosilver Markets 2011” Due August 22, 2011

Published: August 02, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just added a new report to its schedule titled, “Nanosilver Markets 2011” that will be released the week of August 22, 2011. Additional details about the report are available on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication pricing through August 19th.

About the report:

Nanosilver -- whether in powder, ink or nanostructure form – promises all that industrial silver offers but at a higher performance level. Thus nanosilver inks are more conductive and cure at lower temperatures than equivalent inks that use conventional silver. Nanosilver powders are highly potent antibacterial agents and solutions made with silver nanostructures seem to be one of the best available alternatives to ITO, widely used as a transparent conductive coating in the display industry.

The suitability of nanosilver for such a broad range of applications is encouraging and has drawn a large number of firms into the nanosilver business. These include everything from major multinationals who believe there is enough money in nanosilver to impact their bottom line to VC-backed start-ups offering the latest silver nanostructures. In the middle there are a growing number of mid-cap firms offering fairly generic nanosilver powders of various kinds.

Nonetheless, the nanosilver market faces important challenges. Although the amounts of nanosilver needed to perform a given task can often be less than for an equivalent standard silver preparation, nanosilver products are currently very expensive and may be hard for potential customers to cost justify. In addition, there are concerns that widespread use of the material’s otherwise useful antimicrobial properties will cause unexpected negative health and environmental effects. As a result, there are now growing regulatory barriers to the use of nanosilver that could cool sales significantly in the coming years.

With all this in mind, this new report from NanoMarkets analyzes the opportunities presented by nanosilver over the next eight years. The report covers nanomaterials, including nanopowders and other silver nanostructures; nanosilver-based inks, pastes and adhesives, and nanocomposite materials. This report focuses on all the leading applications for nanosilver and also provides coverage on the product development and marketing strategies of the leading players. As with all NanoMarkets reports, this publication provides eight-year forecasts for these materials broken out in both volume and value terms.

NanoMarkets has been reporting on industrial uses of silver and silver-based products for over five years, and this is our latest report in this space. Other areas covered in reports by NanoMarkets include “Silver Inks and Pastes,” “Silver in Photovoltaics Markets” and Silver Powders and Flakes.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the silver inks business and has been covering this market for more than four years. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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Transparent Conductor Market To Reach $9.7 billion (USD) in 2018

Published: July 25, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen,VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released its latest report on the transparent conductor market. In its new report the firm states that the market opportunities for the transparent conducting oxides, polymers and nanomaterials used in display, photovoltaics and other applications will exceed $6.9 billion in revenues by 2016. The report notes that while the market will continue to be dominated by Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), transparent conductors based on carbon nanotubes and nanosilver are also expected to see strong growth.

Additional details about the firm’s latest report, Transparent Conductor Markets - 2011 report can be found at www.nanomarkets.net. An executive summary is available for viewing on the report’s information page.

This new report from NanoMarkets identifies the new business opportunities for transparent conductor materials worldwide. The materials covered comprise ITO, other transparent conducting oxides, other ITO/TCO inks, carbon nanotube films, nanosilver and other nanometallic films and conductive polymers. The applications considered are flat-panel displays, OLED displays, e-paper displays, touch-screen sensors, OLED lighting, thin-film photovoltaics, organic PV/DSC, antistatics and EMI/RFI shielding.

Among the firms discussed in this report are Agfa, Cambrios, Canatu, Carestream, Chasm Technologies, Cima NanoTech, Dow Chemical, Enthone, Ferro, Heraeus, Kodak, Kurt J Lesker, Linde, NanoForge, PolyIC, Samsung, Saint-Gobain, Sigma Technologies, Suzhou NanoGrid Technology, Sumitomo, Toray and Unidym, among many others.

Key findings:

• NanoMarkets is now seeing serious interest among traditional LCD makers in alternatives to ITO and other TCOs. This is being driven by the need to reduce processing costs in the LCD industry and fears about the rising cost of ITO. NanoMarkets predicts that ITO alternatives sold into the LCD industry will generate revenues of $690 million by 2016.

• Carbon nanotube inks have lost some of their former market momentum due to ongoing technical issues and silver-based solutions have surpassed them. NanoMarkets new report predicts that nanosilver-based transparent conductors will achieve more than $540 million in revenues by 2016 ahead of transparent carbon nanotube inks which should still exceed $410 million in that same time period. NanoMarkets does still expect to see important new entrants in the carbon nanotube transparent conductor space in the near future.

• Despite the opening up of transparent conductor markets to ITO alternatives, NanoMarkets does not see the traditional ITO business as seriously threatened. Indeed, it expects this market to thrive; approximately doubling in size to $5.5 billion in 2016.

• Transparent conductive polymers have already seen significant deployment as an alternative to ITO in touch-screen sensor and e-paper displays. However, the performance of traditional PEDOT materials seems inherently limited. Hope for improvements in transparent conductive coatings can be found in nanostructured polymers, PEDOT analogs and improved patterning technologies.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the transparent conductor space and the firm is recognized as a leading source of expertise for both transparent conductors and nanomaterials more generally. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces New Report on Transparent Conductors Markets Available July 25, 2011

Published: July 18, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it will release a new report the week of July 25, 2011 titled, “Transparent Conductor Markets 2011” that continues the firm’s coverage of the transparent conductor market and the opportunities for suppliers and customers alike. Persons interested in learning more about the report should visit the firm’s website NanoMarkets is offering the report at pre-publication pricing through July 22nd.

About the Report:

In the new report the firm offers:

• A more extensive discussion of the opportunities for nanomaterials in the transparent conductor space: In addition to our regular coverage of nanotubes and silver inks, we are also looking at the potential for “nanogrids,” copper, graphene and nanostructured conductive polymers. These additions to our report are due to the explosion of interest in ITO alternatives, with new companies and products being launched in this space.

• More granular forecasts: In addition to our usual breakouts by applications and types of material, we are including breakouts by the type of transparent conductor product being sold; sputtering targets, inks, films and coated glass.

• Extended discussion of the ITO supply chain: In this year’s report, we take a look at the opportunities arising in the supply chain and especially value-added intermediaries in Asia in their role in supplying major display manufacturers.

• Information on funding: In view of the number of firms that are beginning to get into the transparent conductor space, we take a look at how funding patterns are developing and how venture capitalists appear to be looking at transparent conductor investments.

• The indium factor: A few years back, it was a given that the price of indium would strongly impact the shape of things to come in the transparent conductor market. Today, the pendulum has swung the other way and firms are saying that indium doesn’t matter because it is such a small part of the total cost of ITO. In this report, we discuss what we really know about the impact of indium costs and also what the latest moves to control indium exports from China will mean for the transparent conductive coatings market.

• The mythical flexible display: Flexible displays have been demonstrated at trade shows for several years now and have been much discussed at conferences and in the technical literature. They are also a market than many suppliers of transparent conductors say they are chasing after. However, the reality is that there are no genuine flexible displays on the market at the present time. This report discusses how when and if, flexible displays will create opportunities for makers of transparent conductors.

• OLED displays and lighting: Although we have taken a look at the use of transparent conductors in the OLED space before, we are providing extended coverage in this year’s report. This reflects the fact that small OLED displays are now a mass market item and OLED TVs and OLED lighting seem well on their way to commercialization. Transparent conductors raise special issues in an OLED environment including the need for special planarization and the need to support large panels.

As with other NanoMarkets reports, this latest report on transparent conductors includes discussions of the product/market strategies of both the largest firms in this space and the most innovative. We also provide detailed eight-year forecasts with extensive breakouts in both value and volume terms by product and application as well as by geography.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Issues New Report on Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) Market

Published: July 05, 2011 Category: Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just published a new report titled, Building Integrated Photovoltaics Markets, 2011 that continues the firm’s coverage of the BIPV space. The firm says that the BIPV products market will surpass $11 billion (USD) in revenues in 2016 up from over $2 billion (USD) in 2011. BIPV capacity installed will experience a ten-fold increase over the same period growing from 343 MW in 2011 to over 3.6 GW in 2016. The report also notes that the BIPV sector is enjoying new credibility due to the well-publicized and growing involvement of Dow Chemical in this space. Additional details about the new report can be found at www.nanomarkets.net.

Findings from the report:

The building products industry continues to face challenges in construction starts and new builds while the solar industry is facing a reduction in the subsidies that have been crucial to the industry’s fortunes. The BIPV market offers both sets of suppliers a way of developing new revenue opportunities. Solar cell companies partnering with building products companies gain access to new markets, while building products companies can address new opportunities in green buildings and lucrative retrofitting of existing homes and commercial locations.

Product-wise, the market is maturing with “2nd-Generation BIPV” offerings designed specifically for easy integration with buildings. BIPV glass will generate over $6.4 billion (USD) in revenue in 2016 vs $1.17 billion in 2011, tiles and floating panels that will create nearly $3 billion vs $691 million in 2011, and flexible BIPV products will create slightly over $1.9 billion vs $153 million in 2011.

Crystalline silicon (c-si) will continue to hold a large share of the market for the coming decade but thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) manufacturers have reason to be very excited about what BIPV will provide. In particular, several CIGS-based BIPV products have recently passed regulatory code tests and are moving through traditional distribution channels this year. The report states that amorphous silicon (a-si) will surpass a billion dollars in BIPV revenue mark in 2014 with CIGS following in 2015 and cadmium telluride achieving that in 2017.

About the report:

This new report tracks and quantifies the latest developments in the BIPV sector, showing, for example, how collaborations between the PV and construction industries are creating new “2nd-Generation BIPV” products that add value to buildings and represent new revenue streams. This report also discusses how BIPV may benefit from today’s regulatory climate. Since BIPV allows the costs of the building fabric and photovoltaic system to be shared over the same infrastructure, NanoMarkets sees the BIPV market as having an increasingly attractive business case, even if subsidies for PV are reduced. Thus BIPV may be an important step towards PV becoming a substantial industry that may eventually be self-sustaining without government subsidies. The coverage of the report includes the residential and commercial/industrial sectors; new construction and retrofits. We consider the sizes of the various BIPV markets, the roles and strategies of important firms in the industry, and the various PV technologies as they relate to BIPV. In total the report provides a thorough guide to the revenue-generating opportunities for BIPV over the next eight years.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published several reports on photovoltaics related topics including studies of the OPV, DSC, CIGS, TFPV materials and BIPV markets. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 270-4370
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NanoMarkets’ Latest Report Says Revenues from the Silver Powders and Flakes to Reach $13.4 Billion b

Published: June 15, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report titled, “Silver Powders and Flakes – 2011” that continues the firm’s coverage of industrial silver markets. In the report NanoMarkets pegs the total market for silver powders and flakes at $13.4 billion in 2016, compared with $8.7 billion today. Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

From the report:

While the broader market’s growth will depend primarily on prices increases in silver and traditional product sectors are expected to see little or no real growth over the next decade, NanoMarkets has identified some real and important opportunities for makers of silver powders and flakes going forward.

NanoMarkets’ analysis suggests that the revenues from nanosilver powders and flakes, although negligible now are likely to reach almost $300 million by 2016. Opportunities for nanosilver used in medical and antibacterial applications are expected to have an especially large potential, averaging 85 percent annual growth in real terms between now and 2016. One reason for using nanosilver is that it is less negatively impacted by the rising price of silver than more traditional powder and flake products. However, NanoMarkets believes that major business development work still needs to be done to convince potential customers to change their processes; it will be important to demonstrate real savings for customers, though.

The report also notes that because of the high price of silver there will be a major trend towards the use of hybrid materials, that combine silver powder or flake with less expensive (but also less conductive) materials. The volume of such materials used worldwide is expected to grow by more than 50 percent between now and 2016. Hybrid inks and pastes have always done well during times of high silver prices, but and NanoMarkets also expects that there is an opportunity here for suppliers to market hybrids like silver-coated copper or silver-coated nickel fillers for at least a portion of the conductive adhesives market.

About the report:

This report analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for silver powders and flakes in a number of critical sectors including traditional silver pastes and inks; silver inks for the PV sector; conventional conductive adhesives; nanosilver-based adhesives, pastes and inks; and nanosilver-based medical and antimicrobial applications The report also discusses the strategies of the leading suppliers of silver powders and flakes and includes a detailed eight-year forecast for all of the applications and materials types both in volume and value terms.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the silver inks business and has been covering this market for more than four years. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report on Printed Batteries Due in August 2011

Published: June 07, 2011 Category: Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA:Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced a new addition to its publication line up titled, “Printed Battery Markets - 2011” that will be released in early August 2011. Details about the report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/printed_battery_markets_-_2011/.

This report is part of NanoMarkets ongoing covering of emerging energy storage markets that are enabled by developments in the advanced materials sector. NanoMarkets will also soon publish companion reports on markets for thin-film batteries and new electrode materials for lithium batteries.

About the Report:

Printed batteries achieve low cost by adopting solution processing for manufacturing. They also tend to have thin and flexible form factors. As a result this new kind of battery is highly suitable for powering new high-volume electronics applications such as powered smart cards, smart packaging, and disposable electronics.

NanoMarkets has been providing analysis of the printed battery sector for more than five years and notes that after a long gestation period, these batteries are now shipping. With this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this new report on emerging business opportunities in the printed battery sector.

In the markets in which they will compete, printable batteries will face significant competition, both from conventional batteries and from higher-performance thin-film batteries. As a result, key objectives of this report are to identify where the market sweet spots are for printed batteries and where the acceptable price points for these new devices are to be found. Another goal of the report is to analyze the product/ market strategies that are currently being utilized by leading players in the printed battery space.

The report also provides an assessment of the latest technology and product directions in the printed battery sector. In particular, we consider the commercial impact of future printable electrolytes and the development of related energy storage devices – such as supercapacitors – that use printing in a major part of their manufacturing. In common with other NanoMarkets reports, this report on printable batteries also includes a granular eight-year forecast of shipments and an assessment of new technologies and products.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has issued numerous reports and content releases related to printed, organic and thin-film electronics and has covered thin batteries since 2005. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report, Radiation Detection Materials Markets - 2011

Published: June 06, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced a new addition to its publication line up titled, “Radiation Detection Materials Markets - 2011” that will be released in early August 2011. Details about the report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/radiation_detection_materials_markets_-_2011/ .

About the Report:

The radiation detection industry is about to see accelerated growth reasons ranging from ongoing homeland security concerns to greater concerns about safety in the nuclear power industry. Radiation equipment for both diagnostics and therapeutic applications will also proliferate as populations continue to age. Such trends will create new opportunities for the firms that make radiation detection materials of various kinds. These opportunities will present themselves not just in terms of increases in the volume of materials required, but also in terms of the type of materials. The radiation detection market is looking for materials that can provide more accurate and useful readings and also for those that can lower costs.

Traditionally, radiation detection materials have been classified into two different groups; scintillation detector materials and semiconductor-based detectors. Sodium iodide has been the industry standard for scintillation detectors, but is very fragile and moisture sensitive. With the heightened need for radiation detection, NanoMarkets believes that there are now growing opportunities for new materials such as Bismuth Germanium Oxide (BGO), Lutetium Oxysilicate (LSO) and Strontium Iodide. All of these newer materials are showing potential to provide higher resolution, lower cost and more physically robust solutions than the current Sodium Iodide detectors.

As far as semiconductor radiation detectors go, current materials such as Si and Ge detectors have excellent sensitivity and resolution, but have the drawback of needing to be cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures for optimal performance. While such cooling is routinely done for medical and scientific applications, it is impractical for pervasive homeland security and mobile applications. As a result, NanoMarkets sees new business potential from new alloys that have the potential for a similar resolution to Si and Ge but with good performance at room temperature and again at lower cost.

This new report – which we believe to be the first of its kind – provides a detailed analysis of the opportunities for firms in, or about to enter, the radiation detection material sector. It provides a deep understanding of the commercial potential for the new materials and discussion of the strategies that are being deployed by firms active in this sector. It also includes a granular eight-year forecast of radiation detection materials broken out by material types and market application.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets and FlexTech Alliance Announce June Webinar on Transparent Conductor Markets

Published: June 06, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets, a leading provider of market research and industry analysis for opportunities within advanced materials and emerging electronics markets and the FlexTech Alliance, focused on developing the electronic display and flexible, printed electronics industry supply chains, will co-host a webinar on Thursday, June 16, 2011 titled, New Opportunities in the Transparent Conductor Market. Persons interested in registering for the event may do so on the FlexTech Alliance website at http://www.flextech.org/fe-flextech-events.aspx. There is no cost to register for the event but space is limited.

About the Webinar:

This webinar will provide an overview of the latest opportunities in the transparent conductor market, a market that NanoMarkets has been providing analysis on for five years. It will examine how recent developments in the indium market and a future rise of flexible displays are likely to impact future use of ITO and create new business potential for ITO alternatives including other TCOs, conductive polymers, nano-metallic inks and nano-carbon inks.

In discussing emerging transparent conducting materials, the webinar will survey the current approaches being pursued and the firms active in this space. It will also examine the important role of market leadership for ITO alternatives and the relative role of low-cost processing and low-cost materials in making the case for these new materials.

The webinar will begin at 11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT and last approximately 45 minutes. A replay will be made available for a limited time after the event.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has issued numerous reports and content releases related to transparent conductors, conductive coatings and inks and related materials. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

About FlexTech Alliance:

The FlexTech Alliance is the only organization headquartered in North America exclusively devoted to fostering the growth, profitability and success of the electronic display and the flexible, printed electronics supply chain. FlexTech Alliance offers expanded collaboration between and among industry, academia, government, and research organizations for advancing displays and flexible, printed electronics from R&D to commercialization. More information about the FlexTech Alliance can be found at the industry portal: www.flextech.org.

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of Latest Report for OLED Materials Market; Sees $2.0 Billion Opportunity in 2016

Published: June 01, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released its latest report titled, “The Market for OLED Materials 2011” which says that the market opportunities for the various materials used in OLED displays and lighting will exceed $2.0 billion (USD) by 2016. The report is the latest in NanoMarkets’ continuing coverage of both OLED markets and organic electronics materials. NanoMarkets has also recently released several reports on organic electronics materials including conductive polymers and materials for OLED lighting. NanoMarkets has been covering the OLED materials space since 2006. Additional details about the firm’s latest report can be found at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/markets_for_oled_materials_--_2011 The report will begin shipping on June 6^th with pre-publication pricing in effect through June 3^rd.

Key findings:

With the arrival of active matrix displays for cell phones, OLED materials makers have at last got a sizeable addressable market to chase after. Mass markets for OLED lighting may emerge for OLED lighting and OLED TVs in the 2013-2015 which will give another boost to the prospects for firms that make and license OLED materials. Already, firms including Novaled and UDC are reporting very encouraging financial results.

The report notes that the OLED materials market has begun to see the first IP challenges. Because the current generation of OLED materials is extremely expensive, there is a strong incentive for firms to enter this market. As a result, NanoMarkets believes that there will be more IP challenges and a trend towards “reverse engineering.”

Although most OLED displays and lighting will use small molecules, the polymer OLED paradigm is still receiving strong support from Sumitomo and Novaled has backed a hybrid approach that combines the best of small molecules and OLEDs. NanoMarkets believes that polymer OLED materials will generate more than $255 million by 2016.

About the report:

This new report from NanoMarkets identifies the new business opportunities for OLED materials worldwide. It covers the core organic materials for both small molecule and polymer OLEDs as well as cathode, anode, encapsulation and substrate materials. The report also includes analysis of all the leading firms offering materials to the OLED industry including Agfa, BASF, Cheil Industries, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Hodogaya Chemical, Idemitsu Kosan, Nippon Steel Chemical, Novaled, PPG, Plextronics, Showa Denko, Sumitomo, Sun Fine Chem and UDC. In addition, the report contains a detailed eight-year forecast broken out by volume and value of material consumed and by all the major layers of the OLED stack

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the OLED material and lighting space and the firm is recognized as a leading source of expertise for both OLED materials and nanomaterials. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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New NanoMarkets Report Forecasts European OLED Lighting Market to Reach $1.5 Billion by 2016

Published: May 19, 2011 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released its latest report titled, “OLED Lighting Markets Europe-2011,” that says the market opportunities in Europe for OLED lighting will generate $1.5 billion (USD) in OLED lighting panel sales by 2016. The report is the latest in NanoMarkets’ continuing coverage of the global OLED lighting marketplace.

NanoMarkets has also recently released reports on the market for OLED lighting in Asia and an update of the firm's global market forecast for OLED lighting. In addition, the firm has issued a report on the business case for OLED lighting and will soon issue a new report on the OLED materials market. An analysis and forecast of OLED lighting manufacturing capacity worldwide will be published by NanoMarkets in September of 2011.

Key findings:

German markets and firms will be the largest factor in the European OLED lighting scene for the foreseeable future. According to NanoMarkets’ projections, Germany will account for one fourth of all OLED lighting sales during the 2011 to 2018 period. In addition, the OLED lighting manufacturing in Europe is concentrated in Germany which is home to major facilities operated by BASF, Fraunhofer IPMS, Philips, Heraeus, Osram, Ledon, Merck and Novaled. German OLED lighting panel sales will reach almost $360 million in OLED panel sales by 2016.

After Germany, the U.K. will generate the greatest revenues from OLED panel sales during the forecasting period covered by the report, with almost $210 million in revenues by 2016. The U.K.’s prominence in the OLED lighting field is driven by the relatively large size of the country and the fact that it started phasing out incandescent bulbs earlier than any other European nation. The U.K. is also home to some highly innovative OLED firms such as CDT, E2M, Lomox and PolyPhotonix

European firms including Blackbody, Osram and Philips, already dominate the worldwide market for OLED luminaires and will continue to do so. There are already as many as 20 luminaires produced by European firms; albeit in limited quantities. Reflecting Europe’s long-established strength in industrial design, many of these luminaires have been created by leading lighting and furniture designers such as Ingo Maurer and Tom Dixon.

About the report:

This new report from NanoMarkets identifies the new business opportunities for OLED lighting in Europe and examines both consumer demand and the manufacturing infrastructure that has developed in the region. The report focuses on the main regions of Western Europe, with additional comments about the potential market for OLED lighting in Eastern Europe. The report includes analysis of all leading European firms active in the OLED lighting space at both the panel and luminaire level as well as profiles of all the national and pan-European OLED lighting R&D projects. It also includes a detailed eight-year forecast broken out by nation and by type of lighting. The lighting types covered in this report include primarily general illumination, architectural lighting and vehicular lighting.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the OLED lighting space and the firm is recognized as a leading source of expertise for the OLED lighting supply chain. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.netfor a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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NanoMarkets Announces Availability of New Report on Silver Inks and Pastes

Published: May 19, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just posted a free report on the market for silver inks and pastes used in electronics. The report can be accessed from the firm’s website at http://nanomarkets.wufoo.com/forms/silver-inks-and-pastes-report-request. The report is a subset of a larger report the firm released at the beginning of the year titled, “Silver Inks and Pastes Markets 2011” that outlined the opportunities for silver inks and pastes manufacturers in a time of rapidly increasing silver prices and shifting demand.

The firm will be releasing a new report on the market for silver powders and flakes in June of 2011.

About the Report Silver Inks and Pastes Markets 2011

NanoMarkets has been tracking the silver inks and pastes market for five years and is considered the premier supplier of business information to this sector of the printed electronics business. This report provides an entirely new look at the state of the silver inks and pastes industry in which we consider the impact of the ongoing worldwide economic problems and changing silver prices, along with the latest trends in the various applications sectors into which silver inks and pastes are sold. We have also expanded coverage from last year in a number of ways including more about both silver ink applications and the companies that produce them.

With all this in mind we take an entirely fresh look in this report at what the suppliers of silver inks are doing both in terms of how they are adapting their product ranges to the current market environment and the market strategies that they plan to employ in the future. One particular area of focus for us here is the future of nanosilver and other high-value inks. These products have now been available for several years and their theoretical advantages are well understood. Yet the market for such products has never seemed to take off in the way that some advocates of these inks hoped they might. Is this because of inadequate formulations? Or immature applications? Are nanosilver inks a product with a commercial future?

In this report, we also take a much closer look than ever before at the applications for silver inks and pastes. In particular, we examine the latest developments in the display and lighting space and how they are growing the opportunities for silver ink/paste makers. In addition, we have also added considerably on our analysis of the opportunities in the sensor and thick film applications sectors for silver formulations.

In this year’s report we have provided additional coverage of the silver/ink and paste companies with an entirely new section on the small Asian companies that continue to be players in this space. As usual we have included a granular eight-year market forecast for silver inks and pastes that reflect today’s market environment and price points.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to PV, printed electronics and conductive coatings. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report on OLED Materials Scheduled for May 2011 Release

Published: May 09, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report, “Materials for OLED Markets – 2011” to its schedule. The report will be available during this month and continues the firm’s industry leading coverage of the global OLED materials business. Additional details about the report are available on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net .

NanoMarkets has listed the report at pre-publication pricing through May 21^st.

About the report:

In this report, NanoMarkets provides its latest assessment of the opportunities in OLED materials. Included in this report are granular eight-year forecasts of OLED materials, with breakouts by type of material and application. The report covers the commercial implications of technical developments, such as in doping and novel OLED device structures and it also takes an in-depth look at the product and marketing strategies of the major players in this space ranging from giant chemical firms such as BASF, DuPont and Sumitomo to specialty firms such as Novaled and Plextronics. The report also examines whether after years of unkept promises, printing may now have found an important role in the OLED space.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets has been providing forecasts of the OLED lighting market for more than five years. Other reports in the NanoMarkets’ OLED lighting series include reports covering Asian and European markets for OLED lighting, as well as specialized analysis of business opportunities in OLED lighting materials and OLED manufacturing. NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to electronics and display materials.

Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of Latest Global OLED Lighting Market Forecasts, Sees $4.8 billion Market in 2016

Published: May 09, 2011 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released its latest forecasts of the global OLED lighting market and sees a $4.8 billion (USD) market developing in 2016. The firm goes on to state that it expects to see a mass market OLED lighting products by the beginning of 2014 and that the automotive industry becoming a demand factor within the coming years. Further details of the report can be found at www.nanomarkets.net.

The firm has recently issued a report on the market potential for OLED lighting in Asia and will have a similar report for the European market available before the end of the month.

Key points from the report:

The OLED lighting industry has developed rapidly over the past year, with nine companies now shipping OLED panels for lighting applications.

OLED lighting panels are today used only in luxury fixtures, but NanoMarkets expects "mass market" OLED lighting on the market in the 2013-2014 period and revenues generated by OLED-based general illumination products are expected to reach $2.7 billion in 2016

The unique features of OLEDs, such as flexibility and color tunability, makes OLED lighting technology highly suited to architectural applications. NanoMarkets sees architectural applications of OLED lighting generating more than $950 million by 2016.

Within two to three years, the large OLED panel makers will start to see design wins worth millions of dollars from the automotive industry and NanoMarkets expects this segment will generate $805 million in OLED lighting revenues by 2016.

About the report:

This new report provides NanoMarkets' latest forecasts of OLED shipments and revenues in a number of sectors including general illumination, architectural lighting, signage, vehicular lighting, personal illumination products and backlighting. The forecasts are based on NanoMarkets’ analysis of all the major players in the OLED lighting space and their plans for shipping products. The report also discusses what economic and technical challenges will need to be overcome in order to reach acceptable revenue levels as well as examines the alternative scenarios and the impact of panel size, efficiency, luminance and lifetimes.

About NanoMarkets:

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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New NanoMarkets Report Forecasts the Market for Energy Storage in the Solar Power Industry

Published: April 28, 2011 Category: Renewable Energy Smart Grids

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just issued a new report that says the solar power industry will use $953 million (USD) in energy storage systems in 2016, rising to $1.5 billion in 2018. The report, Energy Storage Markets in the Solar Energy Industry is the latest in NanoMarkets’ ongoing coverage of energy storage and renewable energy markets. A related report, Energy Storage Opportunities in the Wind Power Industry was issued in Q4 of 2010.

Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net

From the report:

The demand for high energy density batteries is expected to surge to meet the needs of the growing number of utility-scale solar plants. Such plants are already being heavily promoted by large solar panel firms in anticipation of lowered PV subsidies for consumers. The growing trend towards grid-scale PV will also be fueled by anti-nuclear sentiments following the Japanese disasters. High energy density batteries for solar power storage are expected to reach revenues of $763 million by 2016.

In the wake of reduced feed-in tariffs for PV, large commercial users will want to better manage the energy they generate and sell back to utilities. NanoMarkets believes that energy storage will become a key part of this new management effort and his trend will help take sales of lead-acid and lead-carbon batteries for solar power storage to $465 million by 2016.

The efforts towards reengineering the humble lithium ion battery to do duty in the Smart Grid is already showing signs of paying off in early solar power storage projects. By 2016, sales of lithium ion and related batteries for solar power storage will be worth $274 million, making this the second largest segment of the solar storage market in value terms.

About the report:

This NanoMarkets report analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for firms seeking to understand the opportunities created by energy storage technologies in the solar power sector; both PV and CSP are covered. It provides an analysis of the market in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, China and India, with eight-year forecasts of energy storage sold into the solar sector for each of these countries/regions, as well as for the world as whole. These forecasts are broken out by major energy storage technologies in both volume (MWh) and value terms. The report also includes discussions of major solar-related storage projects around the world and the major firms to watch in the space.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets is a leading provider of market research and industry analysis of opportunities within advanced materials and emerging energy and electronics markets. The firm has published numerous reports related to smart grids, renewable energy and related energy storage market opportunities. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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New NanoMarkets Report Forecasts the Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics Markets

Published: April 28, 2011 Category: Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just published a new report titled, Materials, Applications and Opportunities in Organic Photovoltaics that continues the firm’s coverage of thin-film and organic photovoltaics markets. In its latest report, the firm says that the OPV market will generate $387 million in revenues by 2016 up from $56 million in 2011.

The firm recently released reports on dye sensitized cells (DSC) released earlier this month and on encapsulation and substrates for organic photovoltaics. Additional details about the new and previously issued reports can be found at www.nanomarkets.net. The reports may be purchased individually or as a set.

Findings from the report:

Since NanoMarkets issued its last report on OPV in 2010 there has been a growing recognition that OPV is a niche technology and so the industry has shifted focus towards small markets where the technology has something immediate to offer. OPV is expected to find a sizeable market in the portable power market with this application consuming $250 million in 2016. BIPV glass will use $113 million of OPV in 2016.

The report notes that OPV has come a long way from when it offered just a few percent efficiency to the 8 percent efficiency available on champion cells today. NanoMarkets notes that Mitsubishi expects to see OPV champion cells reach 15% efficiency by 2015.

OPV continues to attract both start-ups and investments and NanoMarkets claims that growth for OPV will largely be enabled by improved materials including specialize donor/acceptor materials that play to OPV’s strength such as the ability of OPV to function well under indoor lighting. NanoMarkets estimates that OPV materials markets will grow to almost $200 million by 2016, but with half of these revenues coming from encapsulation and substrate materials, reflecting the vulnerability of OPV to oxygen and water vapor in many of the niches it serves

About the report:

Materials, Applications and Opportunities in Organic Photovoltaics identifies the new business opportunities that are emerging from the OPV sector and covers both on-grid and off-grid uses including portable electronics, embedded electronics, BIPV glass, and BIPV roof and siding. The report also discusses OPV-related materials markets including donor, acceptor and HTL/EBL materials as well electrode materials, encapsulation systems and substrates. In addition, the report includes a granular, eight-year forecast broken out by MW, square meters of PV material and market value. Among the companies discussed in this report are Agfa, BASF, Eight19, GPEC, Heliatek, Heraeus, Konarka, Merck, Mitsubishi, Plextronics, Solar Press, Solarmer, and Sumitomo.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published several reports on photovoltaics related topics including studies of the OPV, DSC, CIGS, TFPV materials and BIPV markets.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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NanoMarkets Issues New Report on Dye Sensitized Cell Panel and Materials Markets, Sees $1.9 billion ($US) Opportunity by 2016

Published: April 19, 2011 Category: Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Revenues generated by solar panels (including BIPV products) using Dye Sensitized Cell (DSC) technology will reach $1.9 billion ($US) by 2016, according to a new report from industry analyst firm NanoMarkets. “Dye Sensitized Cells: Materials, Applications and Opportunities” is the latest in NanoMarkets’ continuing coverage of thin-film and organic PV technologies and the materials that are used in them. The firm will be releasing a new report on the markets for organic PV (OPV) and related materials later this month.

Findings from the report:

• Projects with DSC-based BIPV involving Pilkington and Tata Steel appear to have progressed well in the past year, suggesting a healthy market in the future. NanoMarkets projects that revenues from DSC-based BIPV will account for over 80 percent of the DSC market by 2016.

• New and more cost effective DSC materials are being developed. For example, costly Ruthenium dye may eventually be replaced by chlorophyll derivatives, copper-based dyes, and mixed “cocktails” of various dyes. Solid-state, printable and transparent electrolytes are also on their way to the marketplace. Major firms including BASF, Merck and Sony have all worked on developing new DSC materials, although Dyesol remains at the center of the DSC materials business. By 2016, the DSC panel industry is expected to consume more than $780 million in materials.

• DSC represents a substantial opportunity for the building materials industry to add PV capabilities to their premium tiles, siding and architectural glass. By 2016, building substrates of this kind are likely to represent a market worth around $500 million.

About the reports:

“Dye Sensitized Cells: Materials, Applications and Opportunities” identifies the new business opportunities that are emerging from the DSC sector and covers both on-grid and off-grid uses including portable electronics, embedded electronics, BIPV glass, and BIPV roof and siding. The report also discusses DSC-related materials markets including dyes, TiO2, electrolytes, catalysts, electrode materials, encapsulation and substrates. In addition, the report includes a granular, eight-year forecast broken out by MW, square meters of PV material and market value.

“Materials, Applications and Opportunities within Organic Photovoltaics – 2011” provides a comprehensive examination of the marketplace, technologies, and manufacturing approaches in the organic photovoltaic (OPV) business. Starting with a look back over the past year, we identify where the long-term promises of OPV are beginning to be kept and where sustainable applications are emerging for this interesting solar technology. This report also focuses on how both materials and solar panel manufacturers are changing their strategies to adapt to an environment in which OPV costs have failed to come down to point hoped for just a few years ago. Under this new circumstances can their ever be large enough revenues from OPV for it to be more than just a market niche or for OPV to continue to interest the large chemical companies that are now involved in it? And does OPV have enough going for it to break out of the limited world of solar chargers to become a viable BIPV technology?

About NanoMarkets:

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report Titled, Energy Storage Markets in the Solar Energy Industry

Published: April 13, 2011 Category: Renewable Energy Smart Grids

Glen Allen, VA: NanoMarkets today announced the addition of a new report to its schedule titled, Energy Storage Markets in the Solar Energy Industry. The report continues the firm’s coverage of the market the opportunities within energy storage and the solar (photovoltaics) space and will be released April 28, 2011. Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net. NanoMarkets is offering the report at pre-publication pricing through the end of April.

About the Report:

The solar energy industry is continuing to evolve and grow, leading to diverse opportunities in the energy storage space. Small lead-acid batteries have been used for many years in small off-grid photovoltaics (PV) systems and will remain an important part of the “solar storage” market.

But recent developments have created significant new revenue opportunities:

· The new breed of microgrids requires much larger energy storage systems than the traditional batteries used for off-grid applications. One need here is for considerably higher energy densities to handle microgrids that include large PV generators. It is as yet unclear, what kind energy storage systems will be best for this kind of applications

· As metering technology advances, the introduction of energy storage by building owners will give those owners the ability to the best advantage of feed-in-tariffs. This is virgin territory waiting for a specialized type of energy storage systems to emerge.

· Utility-scale solar plants – both PV and solar thermal – are suddenly being taken much more seriously, because of the recent problems of the nuclear industry. Large solar plants inevitably require large energy storage systems, with energy density requirements that most of today’s commercialized storage systems cannot yet offer.

· Utilities will have to cope with a highly distributed network of solar energy sources, generating energy in an intermittent fashion. This is not a situation with which current grids are designed to cope and the Smart Grids of the future will need to incorporate energy storage buffers, if they are to optimize the use of solar in their network. Deployment of batteries in the grid to meet these requirements have not yet begun

NanoMarkets believes that as the result of such trends, there is a large and growing opportunity for energy storage firms of many kinds to sell into the solar power market. This will mean that the energy storage firms will have to better understand where the money will be made in this space over the next few years and what kind of batteries will be used; the dominance of lead-acid batteries in the solar power space is clearly about to change.

In this report, we analyze in detail the requirements for solar-power-related storage and where in the solar power industry purchases of energy storage systems are likely to be made. We also examine the many different energy storage technologies that might serve the needs of solar storage. In addition, we take a look at solar-related energy storage in the context of a total market picture, looking at how solar energy storage will be impacted by the arrival of improved renewable energy management systems, improved weather forecasting, and Smart Grids. This report is a unique guide to where energy storage firms can make money in the solar power industry.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to smart grids, renewable energy and related energy storage market opportunities. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report Titled, OLED Lighting in Europe - 2011

Published: April 11, 2011 Category: Electronics and Devices OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it has added a new report to its schedule titled, “OLED Lighting in Europe – 2011” that will be available in late April. Details of the report are available on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net. The report is the next in NanoMarkets’ ongoing coverage of the emerging global OLED lighting market and follows recent releases on OLED lighting in Asia, a business case analysis for OLED lighting and materials market opportunities.

About the Report:

NanoMarkets believes that the European market will represent a major opportunity for OLED lighting however, not without substantial potential risks. Factors favoring the technology include stringent government regulations, generous government funding, a large and relatively wealthy population and strong industrial base comprised of two of the "big three" in OLED lighting and many of the world’s leading specialty chemical and materials companies. In addition, Europe has always been a leader in lighting design and innovation. From the earliest days of OLED lighting market, the most interesting OLED lighting designs have come out of European lighting firms and design houses.

Still, important questions hang over the future of OLED lighting in Europe. How will the financial reforms currently being undertaken by European governments impact the OLED lighting market, for example? And will the much-strained European construction markets provide enough impetus to generate significant new business for OLED lighting? Also, while there are many government/industry cooperative projects involving OLED lighting throughout Europe, it is still far from clear the degree to which these will be able to provide ideas for commercial products. Lastly, while Europe has been at the forefront of many design wins over the years, the same cannot be said of its ability to manufacture. Will OLED lighting wind up in Asia or will Europe be able to hold on to a dominant position?

In this new report from NanoMarkets analyzes and quantifies the business opportunities available for OLED lighting in the major European countries. In addition, we show how European companies are shaping OLED lighting markets in the rest of the world. The report will provide detailed market forecasts in volumes and values by country.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for thin-film, organic and printed electronics and in particular, OLED lighting. Please visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s coverage.

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New NanoMarkets Report Predicts Asian OLED Lighting Market to Reach $2.1 Billion by 2016

Published: April 06, 2011 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, Virginia: NanoMarkets has released its latest report titled, “OLED Lighting Markets Asia-2011,” that says the market opportunities in Asia for OLED lighting will generate $2.1 billion by 2016. The report is the latest in NanoMarkets’ continuing coverage of the global OLED lighting marketplace. Additional details are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net

NanoMarkets will soon release additional reports during April and May that will address the market for OLED lighting in Europe, a forecast of global manufacturing for OLED lighting, and an update of the firm's global market forecast for OLED lighting.

Key findings:

• NanoMarkets’ report states that Japan will dominate the OLED lighting business through 2014 despite lingering issues from the earthquake and tsunami. Japanese consumers have greeted LED lighting enthusiastically and will do the same as OLED lighting gets onto retail shelves. Meanwhile, Japanese firms are taking up key positions in every part of the worldwide OLED lighting supply chain from design and manufacture through to wholesale distribution. Sales of OLED lighting in Japan are expected to reach $1.1 billion by 2016.

• Although, the addressable market for OLED lighting in China is limited, NanoMarkets expects the Chinese OLED lighting market to reach $420 million by 2016. OLED lighting markets and manufacturing in China are expected to benefit from current Chinese industrial policy which emphasizes the need to develop high-tech industries to serve the domestic Chinese market.

• Korea is early in its embrace of OLED lighting and NanoMarkets predicts sales of only reach $230 million by 2016. But, the influence of both Samsung and LG cannot be understated as both have made a strong commitment to OLED lighting and NanoMarkets notes how Samsung’s strong international brand has brought OLED displays into the mainstream. The firm sees great potential for OLED lighting from Samsung’s involvement in the technology.

About the report:

This new report from NanoMarkets identifies the new business opportunities for OLED lighting in Asia and examines both consumer demand in the major countries and the manufacturing infrastructure that is developing for OLED lighting in this region. The main countries covered are Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan, but the report examines markets in other Asian countries, such as India and the Philippines, where NanoMarkets expects OLED lighting markets to emerge in the next few years. The report includes a detailed eight-year forecast broken out by nation and by type of lighting. The lighting types covered in this report include general illumination, architectural lighting and vehicular lighting.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. It provides regular and comprehensive industry analysis of the OLED lighting space and the firm is recognized as a leading source of expertise for the OLED lighting supply chain. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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New NanoMarkets Report Projects Smart Windows Market to Exceed $1.0 billion by 2015

Published: March 30, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, Virginia: According to a new study by NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm based here, revenues from smart windows will reach $1.0 billion by 2015 and then ramp up to $2.5 billion by 2018. Details of the report, "Next-Generation Smart Windows: Materials and Markets: 2011" are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

Findings from the report:

·Until recently electrochromic self-tinting windows were no more than a niche market; but they will see their addressable market surge, with revenues reaching almost $600 million by 2015. The change agents here will be falling prices (in part because of expiring patents), and a broader range of dimmability at a time when energy efficiency is paramount.

·Declining prices for smart windows will enable them to find wider use in automobiles for both safety and reasons of fashion. Electrochromic glass is already used in self-dimming rear-view mirrors, but NanoMarkets also expects to see self-cleaning glass used in car windshields with thermochromic glass finding a role in sun roofs. By 2015, the market for automotive smart windows is expected to reach $330 million, about ten times the size of the market today.

·Smart windows are about to get smarter. While today’s market is dominated by self-dimming and self-cleaning windows, other types of smart windows are being commercialized. These include self-repairing windows based on microencapsulation and windows that are also solar panels during the day and blinds at night.

About the report:

This new report from NanoMarkets identifies the new business opportunities for smart windows that are emerging as the result of new developments in materials science and the rapidly growing demand for green building materials. Areas covered include self-cleaning, self-repairing and self-tinting windows, as well as windows that combine transparency with lighting and photovoltaic capability. The report also includes a detailed analysis of the nations and regions where smart windows are most likely to find their most viable markets.

In addition, the report includes a detailed eight-year forecast broken out by volume, value and region.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published many reports on green building materials including smart coatings, building integrated photovoltaics and OLED lighting.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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NanoMarkets Announces New Research Effort on Thin-Film Battery Markets

Published: March 29, 2011 Category: Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it has initiated a new research effort into the thin-film battery market the results of which will be released in June of 2011. Details of the report “Thin-Film Batteries: A New Market Opportunity Assessment – 2011,” are available on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net. The firm is offering the report at pre-publication pricing through its release date.

About the Report:

NanoMarkets has been providing guidance on the thin-film and printable battery market for more than five years. In this new report, we analyze the latest developments in thin-film batteries and how they will lead to increasing business opportunities. In its assessment of the latest technology, this report compares the existing technologies underpinning thin-film batteries and also examines the latest thinking on the electrode and electrolyte materials, showing how they can contribute to the growth of the thin-film battery sector. In addition, we take a look at the synergy that is rapidly developing between thin batteries and energy harvesting. For many years, thin film batteries have seemed to be a technology in search of an application. However, in this report NanoMarkets shows that there are true applications arising for these kinds of products and how the various firms in this space plan to make money in the future. As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report includes an eight-year forecast in volumes and value terms. We also discuss the funding of firms in this space and how that will shape the thin-film battery market.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for thin-film, organic and printed electronics. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s coverage.

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Robert Nolan

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Reports on Organic and Dye-Sensitized Cell Photovoltaics Due in April

Published: March 28, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of two new photovoltaics reports to its publication schedule. The two reports titled, “Dye Sensitized Cells: Materials, Applications and Opportunities – 2011” and “OPV: Materials, Applications and Opportunities – 2011” will be released in April and continue the firm’s coverage of the photovoltaics business since 2006. Details of the reports are available on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net. The firm is offering the reports at pre-publication pricing through the second report’s release date.

About the Reports:

OPV: Materials, Applications and Opportunities – 2011

Money continues to be invested in the OPV space and new companies have appeared in the past year or so. This is despite the fact that conversion efficiencies remain well below those of every other PV technology and OPV costs have failed to meet the expectations of a few years back.

In this brand new report from NanoMarkets the firm provides a comprehensive examination of the marketplace, technologies, manufacturing approaches and the overall current state of the OPV business. Starting with a look back over the past year, we examine both key materials suppliers and panel manufacturers and the applications for their products. We consider how revenues will be profitably generated by this interesting technology over the near and longer term. The report contains detailed forecasts broken out by materials, technologies and markets by volumes and dollars.

Dye Sensitized Cells: Materials, Applications and Opportunities – 2011

Dye sensitized cells (DSC) were once little more than a curiosity, positioned at the edge of the organic photovoltaics space. However, recent developments suggest that this approach to photovoltaics is rapidly commercializing; offering a potential low-cost technology solution for BIPV and mobile PV applications. Much of the new bullishness surrounding DSC has been enabled by recent materials-related innovations. These innovations new transparent electrolytes, replacing platinum electrodes with less costly electrodes using carbon and cobalt, and re-thinking the DSC cell architecture.

More companies are also into the DSC and as a result, NanoMarkets believes the time has come for this industry analysis report that focuses exclusively on the DSC space. In addition to analyzing the opportunities for this technology in the BIPV and mobile PV space, this report appraises the strategies of the main firms active in this space. As with all NanoMarkets reports, it also provides an eight-year forecast for the DSC sector by volume and value of shipments.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for thin-film and organic photovoltaics. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s coverage.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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New NanoMarkets Report Pegs Smart Grid Sensor Market at $6.3 Billion by 2014

Published: March 23, 2011 Category: Smart Grids

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just issued its latest Smart Grid report titled, “Smart Grid Sensing, Monitoring and Control Systems.” In the report NanoMarkets says that revenues from sales of sensors and related software to the worldwide Smart Grid sector will be $6.3 billion by 2014 and will reach $13.0 billion by 2018. Details of the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

Findings from the report:

Sales of sensors and related software for home area network (HAN) applications will reach $1.1 billion by 2014, five times what they are today. Although sophisticated home energy monitoring has been in vogue in the past, subsidized smart meter deployments will make it cost effective for the first time.

Transformers are the power companies’ biggest capital investments but have traditionally been managed manually, retroactively and inefficiently. Next-generation sensors deployed at substations will aid utilities to avoid unplanned failures, reduce maintenance costs and extend useful transformer life. As a result, NanoMarkets expects to see transformer monitoring sensors generate revenues of $935 million by 2014 to reach $2,725 billion by 2018

Europe will be the largest market for Smart Grid sensors until 2016, accounting for almost 40 percent of the market in 2014. Asia is often considered to be the “land of opportunity” for Smart Grids, but European nations have focused on smart distribution, which is heavily dependent on sensor deployment. By contrast Asian countries have been more interested in building high capacity bulk transmission systems.

About the report:

This new report from NanoMarkets identifies the new business opportunities for sensing and monitoring that are emerging from Smart Grid deployment worldwide. Areas covered include transformer monitoring, SCADA and AMI monitoring, along with sensors for smart appliances, HANs, renewable energy integration, distribution and transmission grids. The report includes a detailed eight-year forecast broken out by volume, value and region.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports on both Smart Grids and sensors. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of New Report on Opportunities for Smart Coatings in the Solar Panel Industry

Published: March 10, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, Virginia: In a just-published report, industry analyst firm NanoMarkets claims that smart coatings offer solar panel makers ways to increase efficiency, lower costs and create higher value-added products. Since these are the three main factors determining success in the photovoltaics (PV) industry, NanoMarkets believes that sales of smart coatings to the (PV) sector, which are negligible now, will reach $504 million in 2016, growing to $847 million in 2018.

Additional details about the report, “Smart Coatings in Photovoltaics” are available at http://www.nanomarkets.net

From the report:

• Self-cleaning coatings deposited on PV panels promise both higher panel performance and lower maintenance costs. Self-cleaning glass is already available from major glass manufacturers, so no great leaps in technology are required to deploy it in the PV space. By 2016, self-cleaning smart coatings sold into the PV sector will reach more than $150 million in revenues.

• Electrochromic and similar on-demand tinting smart coatings will generate $222 million from sales to the PV sector in 2016. NanoMarkets believes that by then lucrative opportunities will have arrived in this sector through the melding of BIPV glass panels with electrochromic smart windows. NanoMarkets also foresees electrochromic PV windows that incorporate OLED technology, so that they can serve as lights after dark.

• Thermochromic smart coatings are also expected to play a role in PV. These can be used to turn panels “off” under extreme heat conditions that could permanently damage them. Some PV technologies—notably CdTe PV—are sensitive to heat and permanent degradation is possible if the panels are operated at too high a temperature.

About the report:

This new report from NanoMarkets examines the role of self-cleaning, self-healing, electrochromic and thermochromic coatings in the photovoltaics space over the next eight years. It includes an assessment of where the main opportunities will appear and when and includes a detailed eight-year forecast of smart coating usage in the PV space, broken out by volume and value. This report will be essential reading to marketing and business development executives at all coatings and materials firms selling into the PV space as well as product managers in the PV industry itself.

Among the companies mentioned in this report are, Bayer MaterialScience, Cardinal Glass, Corning, Gentex, GlasNovations, Nippon Sheet Glass, Nissan, PPG, Peer, SAGE Electrochromics, Saint-Gobain, and Soldadigm.

About NanoMarkets

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to PV materials. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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NanoMarkets Report Analyzes the Impact of Chinese Indium Export Policies on Electronics and Materials Markets

Published: March 08, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, Virginia:  Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just released a new report that examines the impact on the electronics and related materials industries of recent Chinese policies to restrict the export of indium.  This activity has recently been formalized in a new Chinese five-year plan, which is designed to stimulate domestic Chinese high-tech industries.  NanoMarkets, the foremost supplier of information for the indium and ITO industries, claims that this move by the Chinese government will have significant negative implications for several classes of electronics products but also serve as a catalyst for growth in companies in the extraction and electronic materials industries.

Additional details about the report, “Chinese Indium Strategies:  Threats and Opportunities for Displays, Photovoltaics and Electronics” are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

Findings from the report:

·         High indium prices may force the conservative display industry to shift to ITO alternatives, especially those using nanomaterials. NanoMarkets believes that indium is headed for prices at over $1,000 per kilo and higher prices have been suggested in the Chinese press; as much as $3,000 per kilo.

·         Japanese indium users – who currently use 70 percent of China’s indium production -- may find themselves without sufficient indium within a year.  As a result, NanoMarkets expects firms in countries that have not been large suppliers of indium to rush into the market.  This includes firms in Australia, Canada, Laos and Peru, among others.

·         For the first time, there will be significant amounts indium extraction from sources other than zinc mines; sources such as tin and tungsten mining.  Chinese indium policy seems certain to incentivize new sources outside of China to produce indium either through primary extraction methods or through recycling/reclamation.

·         A sharp rise in the indium price will harm the resurgent CIGS PV industry but in turn will open the door for CdTe and c-Si PV which will become for more price competitive.  In addition, new classes of absorber materials (zinc or tin) might emerge that are CIGS-like but don’t actually use indium.

About the report:

China is the world’s largest supplier of indium by far.  As such its policies affect the markets for all indium related electronic materials.  In this report, NanoMarkets discusses the impact and opportunities of these policy shifts in the areas of displays, lighting, photovoltaics, compound semiconductor chips, lead-free solders, etc.

The report examines in depth evolving Chinese indium policy both in economic and political terms and explains how it will create new opportunities for both the extraction industry and the advanced materials industry worldwide.  In particular, it looks at the impact on markets for novel transparent conductors and compound semiconductors.  The information was sourced from NanoMarkets ongoing interview program in advanced materials and also from Chinese language sources.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to indium, ITO and other electronics materials.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Announces Addition of “Smart Grid Sensing, Monitoring and Control Systems: Market Opportunities 2011” Report to Firm’s Publishing Schedule

Published: February 28, 2011 Category: Electronics and Devices Smart Grids

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report “Smart Grid Sensing, Monitoring and Control Systems: Market Opportunities 2011” to its publication schedule. The report will be available the week of March 17th. The firm is offering pre-publication pricing for the report through March 15^th. Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

Cisco’s acquisition of start-up Smart Grid monitoring company Arch Rock highlights the key role that sensing, monitoring systems play in the Smart Grid and represents a significant new revenue opportunity for firms to tap into. This new report provides insights and forecasts on the full range of sensing, monitoring and control systems that are – and will be – sold into the Smart Grid. It covers the full range of systems, from those designed to add value to AMI networks, to those used in conjunction with transmission systems. And it shows how new technologies are enabling such systems to add functionality to meet the very demanding needs of today’s Smart Grids. In the report, NanoMarkets considers the state of the art in such systems today, what new features and functions and features will be added in the future and who the leading suppliers and products will be in this rapidly emerging market. As with all NanoMarkets reports, this new report contains granular eight-year market forecasts.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to electronics and display materials. Visit http://www.nanomarkets.netfor a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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NanoMarkets Announces Addition of “Smart Coatings in Photovoltaics” Report to Firm’s Publishing Schedule

Published: February 28, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report “Smart Coatings in Photovoltaics” to its publication schedule. The report will be available on March 10^th. The firm is offering pre-publication pricing for the report through March 8^th. Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

NanoMarkets believes that there will be growing opportunities to sell smart coatings into the PV sector given their ability to effect substantial improvements in the efficiency and costs for PV devices as well as add new functionality to PV devices that will open important niche markets.

Examples of where smart coatings can help PV firms provide better value to their customers include the ability to provide enhanced protection to PV panels and reduce maintenance requirements. Self-repairing coatings reduce the impact of scratches—virtually impossible to avoid in many outdoor markets, especially BIPV ones—that can obstruct light or, worse, lead to breakage. And self-cleaning coatings help to keep dirt from blocking light from PV panels, maximizing power output—and reducing the cost of keeping them clean.

Improvements in transparency and durability are not the only value adders that can be provided to the PV industry by smart coatings. Electrochromic and thermochromic coatings—normally targeted for ambient lighting and shading purposes—have a role to play in the PV market as well. Most other sources of electricity come with a way to manually control the output, such as a throttle or even a simple “off” switch.

All of these functionalities mean added value for the end user, which is why we believe that smart coatings will do so well in the PV sector. This is the reason that NanoMarkets is publishing this report. In addition to the analysis of the market opportunities, this report also contains an eight-year forecast of the market for smart coatings in the PV industry, by type of smart coating. This report will be essential reading for firms that produce or develop smart coatings of all types and for PV firms seeking to add value to, and make more money from their products by using smart coatings.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to PV, printed electronics and conductive coatings. See www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s reports and related articles.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

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NanoMarkets Announces Addition of “Next-Generation Smart Windows: Materials and Markets: 2011” Report to Firm’s Publishing Schedule

Published: February 28, 2011 Category:

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just announced the addition of a new report to its publication scheduled titled, “Next-Generation Smart Windows: Materials and Markets: 2011” that will be released March 23^rd. Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net. The report is available through March 21^st at special pre-publication pricing.

About the Report:

So-called “smart” windows have been available for many years but have never turned into much of a business. Windows that automatically adjust to strong sunlight by tinting to provide a more comfortable interior to buildings have failed to take off supposedly because of inferior technology. And self-cleaning windows are also decade-old product offerings that have never generated large revenues because of reportedly high price points.

However, NanoMarkets believes that despite such beginnings, smart windows have a strong future ahead of them. On the demand side, the primary driver will be the price of energy that will make energy optimization of all building materials increasingly saleable products. From the perspective of next-generation smart windows an important marker of this trend is the emerging “green buildings” movement. However, in addition to these demand side factors, NanoMarkets also expects the technology that underpins smart windows to improve and to expand in functionality.

We also expect next-generation smart windows to add to the architectural and aesthetic appeal in buildings. And improved smart window technology means larger addressable markets for “conventional” self-cleaning and self-tinting windows; products with price points and capabilities to sell in larger addressable markets well beyond the niches they now serve.

But we also think that entirely new kinds of smart windows products will begin to make their appearance in the next few years; products that combine more traditional smart window functions with other newer technologies. For example, there is much talk about smart windows that don’t just block the sun, but serve as solar panels. Or products that combine smart windows with OLED (or EL) lighting, so windows can serve as transparent panels during the day and lighting at night. In addition, we consider that next-generation smart window technology will offer practical and sleek ways to add value to residential and commercial buildings. They are also expected to find their way into the transportation market – into mirrors and sunroofs in automobiles and to aircraft windows as well – markets where at the present time smart windows have the smallest toe hold.

Such trends, NanoMarkets believes, will create a number of important opportunities at various levels of the value chain. These opportunities include, of course, new types of products that can be sold by firms in the window business; whether manufacturers or retailers or the companies that lie in between. But they also mean new opportunities for materials firms of all kinds who will need to supply new kinds of materials to support next-generation smart windows. This, we believe could generate substantial revenues; windows use considerable amounts of materials.

This new report explains where these opportunities are to be found and how they are best exploited. It builds on NanoMarkets long experience with materials used for smart building products such as lighting and building-integrated solar panels. In addition to the analysis of the market opportunities, this report also includes an eight-year forecast of the market for smart windows, by application area and by the type of “smart” functionality of the windows. This report is essential reading for firms that produce or develop smart coatings of all types and for window suppliers seeking to add value to, and make more money from, their products by giving them new functionalities.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to PV, printed electronics and conductive coatings. See www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s reports and related articles.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

(804) 360-2967

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NanoMarkets Issues New Report on Smart Coatings Market Opportunities, Sees $3 billion Opportunity in 2018

Published: February 23, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA:  Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets LC, an established industry analyst firm covering the coatings space, has just released a new report identifying the opportunities for smart coatings over the coming eight years. According to NanoMarkets, sales of smart coatings are expected to grow from around $230 million ($US) this year to reach $1.3 billion in 2016, reaching $3.0 billion by 2018.  NanoMarkets sees this growth as providing significant opportunities for firms in specialty chemicals, building materials, medical devices, and electronics.

Although, self-healing, self-assembling and other smart coatings have been available for some time, NanoMarkets believes that these products are on the verge of finding broad commercial acceptance primarily to provide longer lifetimes for a wide range of products, including those in the energy, and construction industries. Key examples of where smart coatings can add to product longevity include anti-corrosives and ant-microbials.  NanoMarkets sees the functionality of smart coatings eventually expanding to provide a broad range of functionality in rapidly evolving markets such as drug delivery and smart textiles.  “Smart” is the new “nano,” according to NanoMarkets.

Additional details about the report, including sample pages and a table of contents are available on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net.   Members of the press may request the report’s executive summary.

About the Report:

“Smart Coatings Markets -- 2011” is the latest report from NanoMarkets in its ongoing coverage of coatings markets.  In this report, NanoMarkets identifies the market segments where smart coatings are being used today and the applications in which they will generate revenues in the future.  Applications covered include military, medical, energy, automotive and transportation, construction and textiles.

The report provides full review of the latest smart coatings technology and a sector by sector analysis of smart coatings markets.  Among the applications markets covered are self-cleaning and touch-sensitive surfaces, smart windows, self-priming paints, sensors, bioactive and anti-microbial coatings, camouflage anti-corrosion materials, etc.  The report also contains a detailed eight-year forecast of revenues for smart coatings broken out by product type.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for coatings and thin-film electronics.

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Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
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NanoMarkets Issues New Forecasts of CIGS Market, Sees $3.7 billion ($US) Opportunity in 2016

Published: February 22, 2011 Category: Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just published its latest market analysis and forecast of the CIGS photovoltaics business. According to NanoMarkets’ new report, sales of CIGS are expected to grow from around $615 million this year to reach $3.7 billion in 2016. The report also notes that there are now more than 50 producers in the CIGS market, more than double the number of a few years back.

NanoMarkets notes that this somewhat bullish forecast is based in part on the fact that CIGS is the only commercialized PV technology that can combine conversion efficiencies that are close to conventional PV with the thinness, and light-weight associated with thin-film PV. In addition, the report notes that the prospects for CIGS have been bolstered by the willingness of large firms such as Intel, Shell, Dow Chemical and LG to invest significant amounts of capital in CIGS even during a recessionary period.

The market for conventional PV panels using CIGS as an absorber material is expected to reach $2.9 billion in 2016. However, NanoMarkets expects that 2016 will be when significant revenue will be generated by CIGS-based building-integrated PV (BIPV) with sales of this technology expected to reach $721 million by 2016.

Additional details are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

“CIGS Photovoltaics Market Opportunities 2011” is the latest report from NanoMarkets in its ongoing coverage of thin-film PV. In this report, NanoMarkets identifies the market segments where CIGS firms can most profitably operate and analyzes the latest developments at the leading firms in terms of capacity expansion, financing and deployment of the latest production technology. The report also discusses the impact of the changing environment in the materials industry, especially in the light of recent efforts by the Chinese government to constrain the export of indium.

Among the firms discussed in this report are AQT, Ascent Solar, CIS Solartechnik, CIS Solar, Global Solar, Heliovolt, ISET, Jenn Feng, Miasole, Nanosolar, NEXCIS, Odersun, Scheuten Solar, Solarion, SoloPower, Stion, Sulfercell and Telio.

About NanoMarkets:

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NanoMarkets Issues New Report Addressing the Business Case for Transparent Conductors, ITO and Alternatives

Published: February 15, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just issued a new report that addresses the business case for transparent conductor alternatives to indium tin oxide, (ITO). NanoMarkets pegs the total transparent conductor market at slightly over $3 billion ($US) in revenues in 2011 and growing to over $10 billion in 2018. The market for alternatives to ITO will be worth almost $1.9 billion at that same time. NanoMarkets’ new report notes that while materials costs are obviously crucially important to commoditized markets such as photovoltaics and displays, simply reducing BOM costs will not be enough of an impetus for display and other manufacturers to switch from ITO to alternative transparent conductors.

The report is the next in a series from the firm in its industry leading coverage of the transparent conductor space. Other recent releases include analyses of transparent conductor market opportunities in photovoltaics, displays and OLEDs. Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net

About the Report:

“The Business Case for Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductors” is the latest report from NanoMarkets that addresses the market opportunities within transparent conductors, both ITO and alternatives. In this report, NanoMarkets examines the business case for using alternative transparent conductors in key applications including displays, lighting and photovoltaics. The materials considered are other TCOs, conductive polymers, nanosilver coatings, and nanocarbon coatings.

The report looks at the current and future performance factors of the major alternatives to ITO and compares them in quantitative terms to ITO then considers how these comparisons are likely to change over time, especially given the early technology stage at which transparent conducting nanomaterials find themselves. The principal factors include transparency, conductivity, flexibility/resiliency and cost in addition to other factors.

In the second part of this report, we examine the business cases that have been made in all the applications areas in which transparent conductors are used and how these are likely to evolve over the next few years as materials and end user technologies change. In particular, we look at how the arrival of next-generation displays, solid-state lighting and new types of solar panels are shifting the balance against ITO. And we show how the relative advantages of the various transparent conductors being offered are translated into cost savings and money making opportunities in each of the applications areas being considered.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for thin-film electronics and related materials and has been covering this market since 2005.

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Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

(804) 360-2967

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report Titled “CIGS Photovoltaics Market Opportunities 2011” to Be Released in February 2011

Published: February 14, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has added a new report to its portfolio titled “CIGS Photovoltaics Market Opportunities 2011.” The report is scheduled to release the week of February 28, 2011 and continues the firm’s coverage of thin-film photovoltaic markets that dates back to early 2006. Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net. The report is available on the NanoMarkets website at prepublication rates through February 28, 2011.

About the Report:

In recent years, CIGS has become a collection of contradictions. While it has achieved the highest conversion efficiency among the thin-films, its progress toward high volumes has been sluggish. And while the volume growth of leading companies has been well behind the level of expectations that CdTe has set, dozens of small companies continue to enter the CIGS market, especially in China and Taiwan. Finally, while flexible CIGS PV—especially in the form of BIPV—is widely considered the path for success, there are still concerns about the durability of such flexible products given CIGS’ sensitivity to moisture.

In this report NanoMarkets addresses the questions of what will it take for the large manufacturers of CIGS PV to finally approach the Gigawatt range in volume, what do the small players stand to gain by entering this crowded field, what is the value proposition of CIGS that makes it so attractive, will CIGS ever make real money, and will investors be available to build the necessary capacity?

This report also analyzes the money-making opportunities for CIGS PV examined from the perspectives of CIGS’ strengths (high performance and flexibility) and its weaknesses (sensitivity to moisture and difficult manufacturing processes). It takes an honest look at the processes and strategies of the various firms making CIGS and at the markets in which CIGS has unique advantages.

This report also includes NanoMarkets’ eight-year forecasts of the market for CIGS PV broken down by type of application—BIPV, flexible devices, etc.—and by the manufacturing technology used, including deposition technology and flexible vs. rigid manufacturing.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. See www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s reports and related articles.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Addition of New Report Titled “Smart Coatings Markets 2011” to Firm’s Publishing Schedule

Published: February 07, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has added a new report to its portfolio titled “Smart Coatings Markets –2011.” The report is scheduled to release the week of February 14, 2011 and addresses the growing market potential that “smart coatings” promises to deliver to coatings and materials suppliers as well as companies within the energy, medical device, automotive, building products and military application markets.

Additional details about the report are available at www.nanomarkets.net. The report is available on the NanoMarkets website at prepublication rates through February 11, 2011.

About the Report:

Smart coatings are able to provide an appropriate and predictable response to outside conditions changes in environment which offers a huge commercial potential to provide additional longevity, safety and efficiency in the. And, from the perspective of the coatings supplier, smart coatings offer a new way to add value to products, create protectable IP and attract capital. Although many of the most interesting smart coatings are only just beginning to emerge from industrial laboratories, NanoMarkets believes that these coatings have a huge future revenue potential. Smart coatings have market opportunities in smart windows, photovoltaics, drug delivery systems, antimicrobials, anti-corrosives and advanced sensors.

This report identifies where the sweet spots are for commercializing and marketing smart coatings, who the major players are and will be, and how smart coatings products will be enhanced in value by the latest developments in nanomaterials and bioengineering. It also discusses the interrelationship between smart coatings and the related areas of smart surfaces and multifunctional coatings. The report also includes an eight-year quantitative forecast by application and material type.

This report will provide invaluable guidance to marketing and business development executives working in the smart coatings area and to those in the materials space planning to get into this business.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to PV, printed electronics and conductive coatings. See www.nanomarkets.netfor a full listing of the firm’s reports and related articles.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

(804) 360-2967

rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report, The Business Case for Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductors

Published: January 31, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that the firm will release a new report titled, “The Business Case for Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductors” the week of February 15^th of 2011. The report follows other recently released NanoMarkets reports that have addressed the market for indium tin oxide (ITO) and alternatives and the market opportunities for transparent conductors in OLEDs, photovoltaics and displays. Details of NanoMarkets’ unique and industry leading coverage of the transparent conductor market are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

In this report, NanoMarkets examines the business case for using alternative transparent conductors -- that is transparent conductors other than ITO -- in key applications including displays, lighting and photovoltaics. The materials that we consider in this report are primarily other TCOs, conductive polymers, nanosilver coatings, and nanocarbon coatings.

We begin by taking a look at the current and future performance factors of the major alternatives to ITO and comparing them in quantitative terms with ITO. We then go on to consider how these comparisons are likely to change over time, especially given the early technology stage at which transparent conducting nanomaterials find themselves. The principal ways in which we make these comparisons is in terms of transparency, conductivity, flexibility/resiliency and cost, although we also cover other factors too.

NanoMarkets believes that now is the time for a serious reexamination of the business cases that make the most sense in the alternative transparent conductor markets. We regard this report as especially timely as indium prices look set to rise again, both as the result of an improving economy and under pressure from Chinese supply constraints. Both technological change and economics are about to change the picture for ITO completely and with that will upset existing business cases in the transparent conductor space. With this in mind, we are publishing this report as a guide to how transparent conductor choices will be made in the future.

Our analysis draws on NanoMarkets’ deep understanding of the transparent conductor market and of the strategies of the firms seeking to supply the materials in question. This report will be essential reading for firms in the transparent conductor business, whether existing or newcomers, and whether they supply ITO or an alternative material. It will also provide valuable insight to investors in those firms, as well as firms that use ITO and seek to reduce costs by substituting another material.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for thin-film electronics and related materials and has been covering this market since 2005.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

(804) 360-2967

info@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of Report, Transparent Conductors for Displays, Market Opportunities 2011

Published: January 31, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Electronics and Devices

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the release of its newest report addressing the market for transparent conductors titled, “Transparent Conductors for Displays, Market Opportunities 2011.” The report states that the display industry will consume $7.3 billion in transparent conductor material by 2017 and that while ITO usage will continue to rise in spite of increasing costs, NanoMarkets does anticipate that ITO alternatives – especially transparent conducting nanomaterials – will see significant opportunities from the emergence of OLED and electrophoretic displays who’s makers are less conservative about their materials choices. As a result, NanoMarkets expects revenues from the ITO alternatives in the display industry to approach nearly $500 million by 2017.

The report follows other recently released NanoMarkets reports that have addressed the market for indium tin oxide (ITO) and alternatives and the market opportunities for transparent conductors in OLEDs and Photovoltaics. The firm will also be releasing a new study in February that examines the business case for ITO and transparent conductor alternatives. Details of NanoMarkets’ unique and industry leading coverage of the transparent conductor market are available at www.nanomarkets.net.

About the Report:

In this report, NanoMarkets forecasts how the opportunities in transparent conductors in the display industry are changing and who will be the winners and losers as the result of these trends. The report also analyzes the money-making potential that the display industry provides for both ITO suppliers as well as for suppliers and developers of alternative transparent conductors. Some alternatives have been commercially successful in other industries; is it now the display industry’s turn? The report also includes forecasts of transparent conductor use by display type including, LCD and plasma displays, OLED displays, touch screens, electrophoretic displays and flexible displays and forecasts of transparent conductor use by material type including ITO, Other TCOs, conductive polymers, nanosilver and carbon nanotube-based materials. We believe that this report will be essential reading for suppliers and developers of transparent conductors of all types, as well as for executives in display-manufacturing firms.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for thin-film electronics and related materials and has been covering this market since 2005.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

(804) 360-2967

info@nanomarkets.net

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New NanoMarkets Report Says the Electronics Industry Will Consume $1.3 Billion in Conductive Polymers by 2016

Published: January 19, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, Virginia: According to a new report from industry analyst firm NanoMarkets, sales of conductive polymers to the electronics industry will reach $1.3 billion ($US) by 2016 as polymer firms diversify away from low-performance materials and look for higher-margin opportunities. NanoMarkets believes that the conductive polymer industry will be able to meet this goal by reducing costs and increasing performance in a number of key electronics and optoelectronics sectors.

Additional details about the report, “Growth Markets for Conductive Polymers in Electronics and Optoelectronics” can be found at www.nanomarkets.net.

From the report:

·         If low-cost roll-to-roll (R2R) printing processes and simpler device architectures can be effectively deployed for use with polymer OLEDs, conductive polymers will generate $295 million in sales to the OLED sector by 2016 for use in OLED displays and OLED lighting.

·         Conductive polymers, used principally as electrodes, can boost energy and power densities for batteries, fuel cells, capacitors and supercapacitors, enabling weight and size reduction for some of these devices.  By 2016, energy storage applications will account for almost $190 million in conductive polymer sales.

·         NanoMarkets sees conductive polymers as a key enabling technology for enhancing advanced sensors performance. This may occur through the use of polymer sensing materials or in the use organic electronic devices such as ChemFETs and polymer memories.  Sales of conductive polymers will reach $105 million by 2016 for sensor applications.

About the report:

Often branded as a class of “miracle” advanced materials that will transform electronics and photovoltaics, conductive polymers have decidedly mixed record. The early expectations for the role of polymer-based PV, or conductive polymers as a transparent conductive coating, have never been met. And in other areas of organic electronics, polymer materials – areas such as OLEDs and OTFTs – polymers have played second fiddle to small molecule materials. This is about to change.

This report analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for conductive polymers in both conductive and semiconductor applications including ant-static, EMI/RFI shielding, ITO alternatives, OLEDs, organic photovoltaics (OPV), energy storage and sensors. It provides a broad coverage of polymer types but focuses on PEDOT, other polythiophenes, polypyrrolle, PANI, and PPV. For each of the main applications studied, the report provides an eight-year market forecast, with indications of which particular conductive polymers are likely to do well in that market environment. Companies discussed in this report include: Agfa, American Dye Source, Arkema, BASF, DSM, DuPont, Henkel, Heraeus, LG Chem, Nissan Chemical, Ormecon, Panipol, Plextronics, Rieke Metals, Sanyo, Sigma Aldrich, Sigma Technologies, Sony and Sumitomo.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for thin-film electronics and related materials and has been covering this market since 2005.

Contact:
Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Release of a New Study on Transparent Conductor Sales to the Photovoltaics Industry

Published: January 12, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA: Consumption of transparent conductors by the photovoltaics (PV) industry is expected to reach $548 million by 2017, according to a new study by industry analyst firm NanoMarkets. The report, “Transparent Conductors in Photovoltaics: Market Opportunities 2011” states that photovoltaics is so far the only application for transparent conductors that has made a wholesale shift away from ITO thus creating a substantial opportunity for suppliers of other transparent conductive oxides.

Additional details about report can be found at www.nanomarkets.net.

From the report:

·         Because of the cost sensitivity of PV, non-ITO transparent oxides have already achieved a victory over ITO in this sector and suppliers of transparent conducting oxides -- mainly zinc oxide and tin oxide -- can expect to ride the PV wave to reach $268 million in sales by 2017, compared with just $51 million this year.

·         Starting in 2013, NanoMarkets expects nanomaterials to begin to impact the PV transparent conductor market.  NanoMarkets believes that such materials will be of particular interest to new entrants into the PV business, who will have not built a substantial sputtering infrastructure.  Such businesses can get immediate cost benefits from the R2R processes associated with nanomaterial deposition, both in terms of lower capital expenses and in terms of energy savings.  In value terms, nanomaterials will account for 23 percent of the PV transparent conductor market by 2017.

·         Although many kinds of nanomaterials will find markets in this space, NanoMarkets expects that nanosilver-containing films will be the first to take off in the PV space given the relative stability of the technology. The high price of silver will not constrain the volume of these films because the silver itself makes up only a very small portion of their value.

About the report:

This report analyzes and quantifies the markets for transparent conductors in PV using CdTe, thin-film silicon, CIGS, organic PV, and DSC absorber technologies. The transparent conducting materials covered comprise ITO, other transparent conductors, conducting polymers, nanosilver and composite films and carbon nanotube films. The report also includes an eight-year forecast of transparent conductor markets for PV applications, broken out by type of conductor and type of PV. It also examines the strategies that ITO firms will employ as they put up a fight to retain a share for as long as they can and what the implications of those strategies will be for all concerned. The report is targeted towards suppliers and developers of transparent conductors of all types, as well as for executives in thin-film and organic-based PV firms.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to PV, printed electronics and conductive coatings. See www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of the firm’s reports and related articles.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Sets Out the Business Case for Building-Integrated Photovoltaics in its New Report

Published: January 12, 2011 Category: Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has just issued a new report, “The Business Case for Building Integrated Photovoltaics,” which shows how building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) will be a game-changer for the entire PV industry. According to NanoMarkets, by 2016, the BIPV opportunity will be worth $11.5 billion worldwide.

Additional details about the report can be found at www.nanomarkets.net.

From the report:

PV panels have increasingly become a commodity with the investment ROI completely dependent on government-established subsidies and feed-in tariffs that are increasingly threatened by cutbacks.  BIPV offers manufacturers a clear opportunity to differentiate their products on more than simple cost and efficiency metrics and the chance to move beyond subsidy as the foundation of their business. By emphasizing aesthetics, suppliers of BIPV products will be able to better differentiate their products and expand their products.

BIPV creates an entirely new business model for the PV business and for the first time BIPV makes it possible to imagine a vibrant PV industry without subsidies. By sharing costs between PV and building skin functionality, BIPV radically changes the economics of PV.   The integration of PV with the building industry also opens up new sales channels for products and brings new entrants to the value chain. NanoMarkets points to the buildings products industry which is tired of seeing the PV business pass it by as a prime example of this.

About the report:

This new report provides insight into how to design money-making strategies in the BIPV sector.  It is intended to meet the needs of business development executives, marketers, product managers and investors in both the building products industry and the PV industry itself.

The report shows how BIPV changes the cost models for PV, and how BIPV products -- whether flexible, rigid or transparent -- can be created and sold profitably.  It also discusses, how BIPV aesthetics can be used to sell PV, how architects and designers will become increasingly crucial to the PV industry, and how new opportunities are arising as boundaries between the solar panel industry and the established building products and materials industries gradually dissolve.

The report also discusses distribution strategies for BIPV, how the retail, electrical and real estate industries stand to benefit from the growth of BIPV, and how solar panel makers can best optimize their marketing channels of the future.

Additional details about this report, including a table of contents and excerpt can be found at www.nanomarkets.net.

About NanoMarkets

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in providing industry analysis for the BIPV and PV materials industries.

Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets LC
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report on Transparent Conductors in Photovoltaics

Published: January 06, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials Renewable Energy

Glen Allen, VA:Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it will release a new report the week of January 17^th 2011 titled, “Transparent Conductors in Photovoltaics: Opportunities 2011.” The report continues the firm’s coverage of the transparent conductor market and the opportunities for suppliers and customers alike. Persons interested in learning more about the report should visit the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net. NanoMarkets is offering the report at pre-publication pricing through January 14^th.

About the Report:

NanoMarkets views the opportunities for transparent conductor manufacturers in selling to the PV sector as highly diverse. Each type of transparent conductor – oxides, polymers and nanomaterials – will have its own roadmap for adoption by PV panel maker. And, each type of PV – CIGS, CdTe, c-Si, etc. -- will have different requirements for transparent conductors. In this report, NanoMarkets analyzes and quantifies these differences and identifies how transparent conductor firms with novel products can penetrate, grow, and make money in this market. It also examines the strategies that ITO firms will employ as they fight to retain market share and what the implications of those strategies will be for all concerned.

As a highly competitive business that is increasingly sensitive to costs, the photovoltaics industry is examining every aspect of its operations; not just the materials it uses, but also the processes in which they are used. As PV manufacturers lean more heavily toward lower temperatures, flexible substrates, and roll-to-roll processing, the market TCOs which once looked so attractive will begin to slow. We then expect that there will be another shift in transparent conductive materials usage, one that will most probably emphasize nanomaterials.

The new report also includes an eight-year forecast of transparent conductor markets for photovoltaics applications, broken out by type of conductor and type of PV. We believe that this report will be essential reading for suppliers and developers of transparent conductors of all types, as well as for executives in thin-film and organic-based PV firms.

About NanoMarkets:

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

(804) 360-2967

rob@nanomarkets.net

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Market for OPV/DSC Substrate and Encapsulation Materials to Reach $1.3 billion by 2017

Published: January 05, 2011 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, VA: NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm based here, has just released a new report titled, “Encapsulation and Flexible Substrates for Organic and Dye-Sensitized Cell Photovoltaics” that claims that novel encapsulation and substrate materials are the key to the long-term survival of organic photovoltaics (OPV) and dye sensitized cell (DSC) photovoltaics. The report projects that a $1.3 billion encapsulation and substrate market will be possible by 2017, if manufacturers of these materials can offer products that will smooth the way for OPV/DSC technology to break into the building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) sector.

Additional details about report can be found at www.nanomarkets.net. The firm recently issued a companion report to this that addresses opportunities in encapsulation and substrates for thin-film photovoltaics in November of 2010.

From the report:

While the revenues from selling encapsulation materials into the OPV/DSC sectors will never be huge, the gross margins on those sales will be impressive. OPV/DSC technology will live or die on its ability to penetrate the BIPV sector and OPV/DSC panel makers will have to pay premiums for good encapsulation materials. In addition, NanoMarkets believes that the encapsulation products that are developed for OPV/DSC will find ready markets in OLED and other organic electronic markets in the future.

According to NanoMarkets, the substrate market for OPV/DSC is expected to reach $1.1 billion by 2017 with almost 70 percent of that value coming from glass. Since OPV/DSC allows a much higher degree of transparency than any other kind of PV that might be used with glass, NanoMarkets believes that glass substrate suppliers aiming at this sector of the OPV/DSC substrate market should focus on architectural glass substrates for BIPV, rather than the conventional glass panels used for every other kind of PV.

About the report:

This report analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for substrate and encapsulation materials used for solar panels using OPV or DSC for the absorber layer. It also analyzes the opportunities for substrate/encapsulation materials by application considering both mobile products and the critical BIPV sector. As well as a detailed eight-year forecast for all of the applications both in volume and value terms.

In addition, the report profiles the strategies of leading suppliers of encapsulation and substrate materials including 3M, Corning, Corus, Dow Chemical, DuPont, DuPont Teijin, Fujifilm, Mocon NSG, Pilkington, Saint Gobain, and Vitex. It also examines how the current generation of OPV/DSC firms including Dyesol, G24i, Heliatek, Konarka, Plextronics and Solarmer are approaching the need to improve OPV/DSC encapsulation and substrate materials.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the thin-film and organic PV business and has been covering this market since 2005. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Announces Availability of Transcripts from Firm’s Teleconference on Business Case for OLED Lighting

Published: January 03, 2011 Category: OLED Lighting

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it has released the transcripts from its December 14, 2010 teleconference that presented findings from its report, “The Business Case for OLED Lighting.” Persons interested in requesting a copy of the transcript for the event may do so on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net.

About the report:

This report provides a guide to what OLED manufacturers will have to achieve before they can move beyond the current low-volume “designer lighting” phase. It considers not just the general illumination market, after which OLED lighting makers are mostly chasing, but also the business case that can be made for using OLED lighting in architectural and automotive lighting. In each of these segments it takes a look at how OLED lights can compete with other lighting types, especially LED and fluorescent lights.

In this report, NanoMarkets also sets out what it will take to turn OLEDs into the “light bulb of the future,” including design, performance and pricing considerations. And with regard to pricing, it examines how consumers will adapt to pricing based on total cost of ownership models and which segments of the user population will adapt to it fastest.

This report analyzes the key issues that establish the business case for OLED lighting in its various addressable markets. It is based on NanoMarkets’ ongoing program of personal and telephone interviews in the OLED lighting space, as well as our company’s extensive database of information in this space; NanoMarkets was the first industry analyst firm to cover the OLED lighting space. NanoMarkets has also drawn on the firm’s OLED lighting market forecasts, which are updated regularly.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to organic, thin film and printable electronics materials and applications.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
info@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets Issues Latest Report on the $4.5 Billion Silver Inks and Pastes Market

Published: December 13, 2010 Category: Advanced Materials

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released a new report that pinpoints the opportunities that exist in the silver inks and pastes market despite the disruption caused by the recent surge in silver prices. With major users of these materials attempting to reduce silver consumption, NanoMarkets sees a new opportunity for specialist types of inks including nanosilver inks; products that have largely been a disappointment to date.

Additional details about report, “Silver Inks and Pastes Market - 2011” can be found at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/silver_inks_and_pastes_markets_2011/.

From the report:

· Increasing silver prices and a decline in the number of plasma TVs sold will cause the total market for silver inks and pastes to stagnate at around $4.5 billion ($US) market over the next few years. However, there will still be opportunities for firms nimble enough to compete in this new market environment.

· NanoMarkets expects strong growth for silver inks that contain smaller amounts of bulk silver because they either mix silver with a lower cost material or use specially engineered silver particles. NanoMarkets estimates that these specialist inks could generate revenues of $660 million by 2016.

· It also says that firms that make nanosilver inks should message the potential cost reductions that the use of nanosilver inks can bring and believes that the sales of nanosilver inks could reach $300 million by 2016. The new report also suggests that suppliers should be focusing on applications such as miniaturized PCBs and certain types of capacitors where they can generate short term revenues.

· NanoMarkets, believes the PV sector will be much more able to reduce its use of silver than thick film. Nonetheless, it expects that there will still be significant opportunities for silver inks and pastes in the PV sector, because there are certain areas where they are indispensible. These areas include the front electrodes of c-Si PV cells and the silver grids applied on the front of thin-film and organic PV modules. Annual sales of silver inks and pastes in the PV segment will be around $1.9 billion for the next few years.

About the report:

This report analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for conductive silver inks and pastes in critical sectors including photovoltaics, displays, lighting, RFID, sensors, and traditional thick-film applications such as capacitors, membrane switches, PCBs, etc. The report includes profiles of more than 20 firms supply silver inks and pastes as well as a detailed eight-year forecast for all of the applications both in volume and value terms.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts for the silver inks business and has been covering this market since 2005. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan

NanoMarkets

(804) 360-2967

rob@nanomarkets.net

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