table of contents
Executive Summary
E.1 Emerging Opportunities in Silver Inks for Printed Electronics
E.1.1 Silver and the New Printed Electronics
E.1.2 Market Positioning for Silver Inks
E.1.3 Applications for Silver Inks in PE
E.1.4 Silver Costs as a Challenge for the Silver Ink Business
E.2 Firms and Strategies to Watch
E.2.1 Silver Inks and the Traditional Electronic Materials Industry
E.2.2 Novel Silver Inks and the Future of Printed Electronics
E.2.3 Notes on Asia
E.2.4 Silver Inks and Integrators
E.3 Summary of Forecasts
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to Report
1.1.1 Printed Silver Market Evolution
1.1.2 Printed Silver: New Concerns and New Opportunities
1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology of this Report
1.4 Plan of this Report
Chapter Two: Evolution of Silver Ink Technology
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Changes in the Past Year
2.1.2 Impact of Silver Industry Trends and the Price of Silver
2.2 Ink Formulations: Nano
2.2.1 Nanosilver Inks
2.2.2 Impact of Nanomaterials on Curing Times and Temperatures
2.2.3 Impact of Nanomaterials on Conductivity
2.3 Pure Silver Inks and Hybrid Inks
2.3.1 Inks of Pure Silver
2.3.2 Silver + Palladium
2.3.3 Silver + Carbon
2.3.4 Thoughts on Copper and Copper + Silver
2.4 New Developments in Processing and Printing
2.4.1 Processing Trends
2.4.2 The Rise of Flexo and Gravure
2.4.3 More Thoughts on Ink-jet
2.5 Safety and Environmental Concerns with Silver
2.5.1 Regulation of Nanosilver
2.6 Key Points Made In this Chapter
Chapter Three: Strategies of Silver Ink Suppliers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Advanced Nano Products (ANP)
3.2.1 Silver Inks and Pastes Offered
3.3 Cabot
3.4 Cima NanoTech
3.4.1 Product Strategy
3.5 Creative Materials
Source: Creative Materials
3.6 DuPont
3.6.1 DuPonts Thick-film Ink Business
3.6.2 DuPont and Silver Inks
3.6.3 Future Directions
3.7 Ferro
3.8 Five Star Technologies
3.8.1 Company Goals, Capabilities and Investors
3.8.2 Products
3.9 Harima Chemical
3.10 InkTec
3.11 NanoDynamics
3.11.1 Company Overview
3.11.2 ND Materials: Silver Ink Products
3.12 NanoGram
3.13 NanoMas
3.13.1 Company Overview
3.13.2 Technology and Products
3.14 National Starch (Henkel Electronics)
3.15 NovaCentrix
3.15.1 Metalon Silver Products
3.16 Parelec
3.16.1 Company Background
3.16.2 Parmod Silver Inks
3.17 PChem Associates
3.18 Sigma Technologies
3.19 Sun Chemical
Chapter Four: Applications and Forecasts
4.1 Introduction: Forecasting Methodology
4.1.1 How Much Confidence Should You Have In these Forecasts?
4.1.2 A Note on Conventional Inks and Ink-jet Printing
4.2 Traditional Thick-film Applications for Silver Conductive Inks
4.2.1 A Note on Membrane Switches
4.2.2 Thick-film Applications: Eight-Year Forecast
4.3 Applications for Silver Inks in RFID
4.3.1 Printing, Silver and RFID
4.3.3 RFID Applications: Eight-Year Forecast
4.4 Applications for Silver Inks in Photovoltaics
4.4.1 Silver in PV Contacts
4.4.2 PV Cell Applications: Eight-Year Forecast
4.5 Applications for Silver Inks in Displays and Backplanes
4.5.1 Silver and Frontplanes: An Eight-Year Forecast
4.5.2 Silver and Backplanes
4.6 Applications for Silver Inks in Sensors
4.6.1 Sensors and Silver Inks
4.6.2 Sensors and Silver Inks: An Eight-Year Forecast
4.7 Applications for Silver Inks in Lighting
4.7.1 Silver and EL Lighting
4.7.2 Silver and OLED Lighting
4.7.3 Silver and Lighting: Eight-Year Forecasts
4.8 Other Applications for Silver Inks in Novelties and Disposable Electronics
4.8.1 Silver and Disposable Products
4.9 Summary Projections of the Printed Silver Markets
4.9.1 Summary by Applications
4.9.2 Eight-Year Market Forecast of Silver Inks by Type of Printing Technology and Type of Ink
4.10 Key Points Made in this Chapter
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in this Report
About the Author
List of Exhibits
Exhibit E-1: Product Strategies for Silver Conductive Ink Makers
Exhibit E-2: Competitive Claims Made by Silver Ink Manufacturers
Exhibit E-3: Product Strategies for Silver Conductive Ink Makers
Exhibit E-4: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market By Application ($ Millions)
Exhibit 2-1: Conductivity of Metals
Exhibit 2-2: Advantages Claimed for Nanoparticulate Silver Inks
Exhibit 3-1: Suppliers of Silver Inks, Pastes and Powders to the Printed Electronics Industry
Exhibit 3-2: ANP Nanosilver Inks for Ink-Jet
Exhibit 3-3: Creative Materials: Silver Ink Product Range
Exhibit 3-4: Five Star Technologies: ElectroSperse Product Line
Exhibit 3-5: InkTec Silver Conductive Inks
Exhibit 3-6: Specifications of NanoMas Nanosilver Ink
Exhibit 3-7: Henkel Electronics: Acheson Silver Inks
Exhibit 3-8: NovaCentrix: Metalon Inks
Exhibit 4-1: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: Traditional Applications/Share of Silver Products Market
Exhibit 4-2: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: Traditional Thick Film Applications ($ Millions unless shown)
Exhibit 4-3: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: RFID Antenna Applications ($ Millions Unless Shown)
Exhibit 4-4: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: RFID Chip Applications ($ Millions Unless Shown)
Exhibit 4-5: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: Photovoltaic Applications ($ Millions Unless Shown)
Exhibit 4-6: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: Display Frontplane Applications ($ Millions unless shown)
Exhibit 4-7: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: Sensor Applications ($ Millions unless shown)
Exhibit 4-8: Flexible OLED with Printed Cathode
Exhibit 4-9: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: Lighting Applications ($ Millions unless shown)
Exhibit 4-10: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market by Application ($ Millions)
Exhibit 4-11: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: By Type of Ink Used ($ Millions unless shown)
Exhibit 4-12: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver Ink Market: By Printing Technology Used ($ Millions unless shown)
