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The future is flexible and you can roll it up and tuck it in your pocket! Light, thin, flexible, detachable, disposable screens are poised for mass production. Electronic products from mobile phones and PDAs to computers, hand held games, toys, electronic books, and clothing are set to be transformed by the very latest electronic technology. Bendable, rollable, mouldable electronic displays open the door to greater interactivity, added value and even brand new consumer products.
The opportunities for electronics, plastics, and printing companies worldwide are immense. The flexible display market is estimated to grow 5-7% over the next 2-5 years, according to some industry experts, and current market projections range anywhere from $100-500 million by 2010.
Cash in on the opportunities
To cash in on the opportunities you need the facts: where exactly is the technology now? just how far can it be taken? what are the different manufacturing options and crucially – what are the relative costs? Covering both LCD and OLED displays, Pira’s new study has the answers. It examines the evolving market and product possibilities, technology challenges and investment opportunities in flexible displays. It looks at display elements and structures, mapping out future directions for the technology. You’ll read about key applications and printing/deposition techniques, from inks to dynamic plate printing and static plate contact legacy presses. You’ll get all the information you need make a balance assessment of the technology.
Essential for:
- OLED and LED manufacturers
- Lighting companies
- Display manufacturers
- Inks and substrates providers
- Polymer and chemical producers
- Organic material and substrate suppliers
- Packaging and consumer good companies
- Printable electronics and inkjet developers
- RFID tag and component suppliers and developers
- Smart card companies
Contents
- Brief survey of rigid and flexible displays
- Technology and context
- Display elements and structures
- Display elements
- Structures made from flexible display elements
- Legacy technologies: the incumbents
- New technologies for flexible (and printable) displays
- Futuristic display technologies
- New product assessment/design methodologies
- Swot applications for flexible and/or printable displays
- Substitute products Radical innovation Paradigm changes Printing and other desposition methods for flexible/printable displays
- Requirements Printing processes: a categorisation and description
- Substrates, ink and processes: an interdependent trio Inks
- Dynamic plate printing
- Static plate contact legacy presses
- Planning
- Other postprocessing
- Attaching silicon in-line
- Supporting innovation in printing processes
- Other film or pattern deposition processes
- Case studies