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.

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.

NanoMarkets 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.

NanoMarkets has just released a new report tiled, “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.   

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.

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.

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.

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.