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Smart Lighting Markets and Opportunities 2013
This report is NanoMarkets’ latest analysis of the worldwide smart lighting market. Revenues from smart lighting are expected to escalate rapidly in the coming decade, driven primarily by rising energy costs.  However, NanoMarkets believes that the biggest wins in the smart lighting business will go to those who can differentiate themselves in the market by offering value-added features and interfaces to other building automation systems.  As it happens, it is becoming increasingly easy to achieve such differentiation.  The latest lighting research indicates that smart lighting can also lead to imp...
Published Date: May 2013
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Radiation Detection Materials Markets - 2013
This report identifies the latest opportunities for radiation detection materials and especially those that have emerged since NanoMarkets groundbreaking report on this topic in 2011.   While the materials discussed in this report are similar to those that NanoMarkets covered in the previous report, this report analyzes the commercial significance of the latest improvements in the materials covered.  However, a particular focus of this year’s report is how the opportunities for radiation materials are likely to change in the light of latest developments in end user sectors.  For example, we take a ...
Published Date: May 2013
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OLED Lighting Market Forecast 2013
NanoMarkets has been actively tracking the emerging OLED lighting sector now for more than six years, and this report is the latest in our ongoing series of industry analysis of the sector. In the report, we quantify the market opportunities for OLED lighting over the next eight years by providing granular volume and revenue forecasts for both OLED lighting panels and downstream OLED luminaires. As part of our analysis, we assess the OLED lighting supply chain, and we predict the likely pathways and time frames for commercialization of OLED lighting in different applications. We consider how the industry’s latest commercialization strategies and technical developments are influencing the prospects of this emerging market, and ...
Published Date: Mar 2013
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Price: $2795
The Market for Sensors in the Internet-of-Things Market: 2013-to-2020
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is essentially all about sensors without which it cannot achieve its promised functionality.  For this reason, NanoMarkets believes that IoT’s arrival will mean a surge in demand for sensors of many kinds.  Indeed, IoT could mean a remaking of the sensor industry, generating hundreds of new opportunities for Internet-connected sensors.  While the sensor sector has seen some fascinating new technologies emerge in the past decade, this is the first time we are seeing a mass market emerge for novel sensor types. With all this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this report to identify and quantify where the markets for IoT sensors will be found over the next eight years.  Coverage i...
Published Date: Feb 2013
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Price: $2695
Smart Mirrors Markets - 2013
The objective of this report identifies and quantifies the opportunities, challenges, and prospects for growth of smart mirrors. Specifically, it analyzes the capabilities of current and likely future smart mirror technologies and how these technologies may be deployed in both automotive and non-automotive applications.   Smart technologies covered in the report include the following: Self-dimming technology, which is further broken out into electrochromic and “other” self-dimming technologies in the auto...
Published Date: Feb 2013
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Price: $2495
Solar Storage 2013
This report provides a detailed analysis and forecast of the markets for energy storage for the solar industry with coverage of both the photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) sectors.  Opportunities are identified for the full range of storage options including batteries, supercapacitors and mechanical systems. A lot has happened since NanoMarkets last examined this market.  Perhaps most dramatically, small PV installations, which just a year ago would never have considered installing any kind of storage facility are now being pushed into buying batteries because of declining feed-in tariffs (FiTs) and other subsidy reductions.  At the same time, utility-scale solar – both PV and CSP – are ...
Published Date: Dec 2012
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The Silver Inks and Pastes Market - 2013
This latest report from NanoMarkets quantifies the market opportunities for silver inks and pastes in electronics applications over the next eight years.  In the report, we consider how the industry’s latest commercial strategies and technical developments, as well as the persistent environment of high silver prices, which has been in effect for over 18 months now, have affected the market for printed silver in electronics. We identify the applications in which printed silver will generate revenue for the industry in the near- and mid-term, and we examine the key players in the silver inks/pastes markets. The report provides granular, eight-year volume and revenue forecasts for this business by application and by material.
Published Date: Dec 2012
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Price: $2795
Bio-Plastics Markets
In this report NanoMarkets analyzes and quantifies the business opportunities available for Bio plastics in the polymer industry and along with it, discuss their applications. We also discuss the major players in the Bio plastic space and also identify the latest trends in Bio plastics. Apart from sharing the market share region wise, we have highlighted the market share based on the major types of Bio plastics. The focal point is on the following resin chemistries; Polylactic acid (PLA) Thermoplastic starch Bio-polyamides Poly hydroxyalkanoates (PHA) Cellulose Bio-polyethylene Bio-polyethylene terephthalate (PET) 
Published Date: Dec 2012
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Batteries and Supercapacitors for the Smart Grid - 2013
Energy storage is a vital component of the Smart Grids that are currently being built around the world.   These grids are designed to improve the reliability of electricity transmission and distribution, facilitate the integration of renewable energy generators, and allow long-distance trading of electricity supplies.  All of these functions require the grid to offer buffers where electricity can be stored locally.  However, for the most part the technologies up to this task have not been available.  To the extent that grids have incorporated storage it has either been through the use of conventional batteries originally targeted towards the automotive industry and which are not optimal for grid storage or throug...
Published Date: Dec 2012
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Price: $2795
Smart Glass in the Automotive Sector - 2013
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the worldwide automotive smart glass market, covering self-tinting, self-cleaning, self-healing and device-embedded glass. Eight-year revenue forecasts are included with break outs by type of materials, functionality and the applications within the vehicle in which smart glass is used.  The smart glass applications covered are windshields, mirrors, sunroofs, other automotive windows and dashboards. The companies discussed in this report include: 3M, American Glass,  Apple, ASG, AutoGlass, Balcony Systems, BASF, Bayer, Cardinal, Carlex, ChromoGenics, Corning, Dow Chemical, Gentex, Guardian, Hitachi, Hypho Technology, International Trading, NeoView Kolon, Nissan, NSG/Pilkington, P...
Published Date: Dec 2012
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Flexible Glass Markets, 2013 and Beyond
This report from NanoMarkets quantifies the market opportunities for flexible glass over the next eight years. In the report, we examine the latest technologies, strategies, and technical developments of the flexible glass industry and identify the key applications in which flexible glass will generate revenue for the glass industry in the near- and mid-term.  The report provides granular, eight-year volume (in area) and revenue  ($ US millions) forecasts for this business. “Flexible glass” is ultrathin glass that can—as the result of its thinness—be stored and used in roll form. The selling point of flexible glass is that, like plastic-based films, it can, at least in theory, provide a lighter weig...
Published Date: Nov 2012
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Self-Cleaning Window Markets - 2013
The key objective of this report is to identify and quantify the market for self-cleaning windows worldwide. With regard to quantifying the self-cleaning windows market, we include a detailed eight-year forecast in volume and value terms. The methodology for these projections is to be found in Chapter Three of this report. Since the market for self-cleaning windows is one with relatively few participants at the present time, an appraisal of the current self-cleaning windows products on the market and a critical review of some of the latest R&D in this space is presented here. Finally, we note that the subject of this report is primarily restricted to self-cleaning windows.  We acknowledge that...
Published Date: Nov 2012
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Price: $1995
Markets for Low-Cost Sensors 2012
This new report from NanoMarkets quantifies the markets for low-cost sensors over the next eight years. In the report, we examine the latest technologies, strategies, and technical developments of the sensor industry and identify the applications in which low-cost sensors can generate revenue for suppliers. The report provides granular, eight-year volume and revenue forecasts for this business. The low-cost sensor applications covered by this report include: smart packaging for consumer goods; pharmaceutical smart packaging and healthcare-related applications; interactive media and disposable electronics applications; lighting applications, including both standalone lighting control units and smart lighting systems; building aut0mat...
Published Date: Nov 2012
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Printed Electronics Version 3.0: A Market Forecast
The report quantifies these opportunities in terms of revenues generated by PE V3.0 at three levels of the value chain.  In addition, to an eight-year forecast of PE-enabled products, the report also contains projections of PE components and specialist inks.  The components covered are thin-film transistors, memories, batteries, sensors, displays and lighting.  The organizations discussed include: Agilent, Bank of America, Bemis, DuPont Teijin, eBay, E Ink, Enfucell, Esquire Magazine, Fujifilm Dimatix, GE, Gemalto, HelioVolt, Holst Centre, ISET, Jenn Feng, Kovio, MasterCard, Merck, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Nanosolar, Oxford Photovoltaics, PARC, Pioneer, PolyIC, PragmaticIC, Pragmatic Printing, Plastic Logic, Printed Electronics Limited, Qolpac, Samsung, S...
Published Date: Nov 2012
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Powered Smart Card Markets - 2012
This report, which quantifies the markets for powered smart cards and their major components. Specifically, the objective of this report is to quantify the markets for powered smart cards by application and by region, and to quantity the market for two key components of powered smart cards—batteries and displays—over the next eight years, in both volume/quantity and revenue terms.   We examine the latest component technologies, strategies, and technical developments of the industry.  NanoMarkets has provided coverage of powered smart cards now for several years as part of its analysis of the markets for low-cost displays and printed batteries, and in this report we share the insights that we have garnered into the mar...
Published Date: Oct 2012
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Building Integrated Photovoltaics Markets 2012
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) represents the merging of the building materials and solar panel business, with the "integration" part of the equation implying everything from novel forms of attachment to a building through to full-scale monolithic integration of PV layers into a tile or window. NanoMarkets has been covering the BIPV market now for more than six years and has published numerous industry analysis reports in this space. We believe that BIPV will prove to be a pathway to creating far larger addressable markets for PV in the future.  The BIPV concept will also enable the solar panel industry to create products with higher value added and wider profit margins than the now highly commoditized conventional panels...
Published Date: Oct 2012
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Building Attached Photovoltaics Markets - 2012
The report analyzes and pinpoints the opportunities that are likely to emerge in the BAPV market in the next few years.  Within the report we quantify those opportunities in a series of forecast charts and tables that are provided in both value and volume terms. Volume shipments are forecasted in terms of area covered and MW shipped.  Breakouts in the forecasts are provided by type of building, type of BAPV products roofing and key absorber materials used. In addition, we project the nations and regions that will generate the most revenues for BAPV. The report also addresses both the kinds of buildings and th...
Published Date: Oct 2012
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OLED Lighting Materials Market Forecast 2013
This is NanoMarkets latest report on the commercial development of materials used in OLED lighting applications.  In the report, we review the key technical and commercial developments of the past year and provide granular, eight-year volume and revenue forecasts for this business. Forecasts are provided for all key materials in the OLED stack – substrates, electrodes, emitters and hosts, hole and electron transport/injection/blocking materials, and encapsulation materials. Pioneering OLED firms are poised to move beyond luxury luminaires and designer kits over the next few years and into larger, general illumination applications like office lighting. These pioneering firms will shape which materials will be used. NanoMarkets...
Published Date: Oct 2012
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Advanced Glazing Systems Markets - 2012
According to building engineers, backed up by the evidence of infrared photography, the vast majority of energy loss in buildings is through windows.  In an era of rising real energy prices and uncertainties about future energy supply NanoMarkets believes that a fast growing market for advanced glazing systems can be expected and that this will create profitable business opportunities for a wide variety of companies.  In this new report, NanoMarkets has identified where these opportunities can be found and how much they will be worth.  The report covers the full range of high-performance windows systems that provide thermal, visual and IR management using the latest materials: In this report, firms in the ...
Published Date: Oct 2012
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Markets for Inorganic and Organic Thin-Film PV Encapsulation - 2012
Thin-film, DSC and organic PV are notoriously vulnerable to oxygen and water vapor; much more so than conventional crystalline silicon PV.  NanoMarkets believes that as these newer forms of solar panel technology become ever more pervasive, it is creating a growing opportunity to supply cost-effective encapsulation technology into the PV space.  Although, in the not-too-distant past, several firms have tried to exploit similar opportunities without success, NanoMarkets now believes that the time is right for PV encapsulation to lead to significant revenue generation for well-prepared companies and this report is designed to assist a variety of firms in preparing for the PV encapsulation opportunity.
Published Date: Oct 2012
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Price: $2495
Markets for OLED Encapsulation Materials 2012 - 2019
This is NanoMarkets' latest report on the commercial development of OLED encapsulation. The report analyzes the latest technical and market developments in the both OLED encapsulation materials and deposition strategies and it also contains granular eight-year forecasts of the revenues that we expect to be generated from this business, along with quantities of materials  shipped.  These in-depth forecasts are broken out by both product type and application within the OLED space. OLED encapsulation sector has changed considerably in the past two years. OLED displays have gone mainstream and OLED lighting is not far behind.  At the same time, novel ways to encapsulate OLEDs – notably Atomic Layer Deposition ALD --...
Published Date: Oct 2012
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Markets for Optically Functional Films and Coatings in Displays - 2012
The purpose of this report is to provide a market analysis of the opportunities and challenges for emerging optically functional films used in displays over the next eight years. In this report, we examine the latest products, strategies, and technical developments of the industry.  For example, we identify where new optical film products are likely to help grow addressable markets for different types of displays versus market-dominant LCDs, and where new films for LCDs may help these struggling displays maintain profitability. Note that hard coatings and other coatings designed to improve the durability of the di...
Published Date: Sep 2012
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New Opportunities for Optical Films in the Display Industry - 2012
The purpose of this report is to provide a market analysis of the opportunities and challenges for emerging optically functional films used in displays over the next eight years. In this report, we examine the latest products, strategies, and technical developments of the industry.  For example, we identify where new optical film products are likely to help grow addressable markets for different types of displays versus market-dominant LCDs, and where new films for LCDs may help these struggling displays maintain profitability. Note that hard coatings and other coatings designed to improve the durability of the displays are also commonly found on the front surface of most displays, but these coatings are not optically functiona...
Published Date: Sep 2012
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BIPV Wall Markets - 2012
The goal of this report is to quantify and analyze the market opportunity for BIPV technology in walling markets over the next eight years and it builds on industry analysis that NanoMarkets has carried out in the BIPV and smart windows business over the past few years.  NanoMarkets has been covering the BIPV space now for more than five years and the PV space for several years longer.  With regard to the scope of this report, we have included coverage of the use of BIPV in all areas that could broadly be considered walling.  We take this to include primarily curtain walls (and related shading products) and siding products of various kinds.  But we have also focused on  novel technologies in the BIPV space, ...
Published Date: Sep 2012
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Transparent Conductor Markets 2012
NanoMarkets believes that the next few years will be a turning point for the transparent conductor (TC) business.  We foresee opportunities for novel TCs where, for the first time, newer materials have unquestionable market advantages over ITO.  This report provides the necessary strategic insight into how TC firms can best generate new business revenues from the rapidly changing business environment in the display and solar panel sectors. It also provides insight into niche applications such as smart windows, BIPV, etc. Manufacturers of alternative TCs have looked toward the day when flexible displays hit the market, since ITO cannot be used in such displays.  That day is now at hand with the first flexible displays ...
Published Date: Aug 2012
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OTFTs, OFETs and Organic Memory Markets - 2012
Improved materials and new applications have brought a renaissance of interest in the commercialization of transistors and memories built from organic materials.  This NanoMarkets report provides an analysis and forecast of the OTFT/OFET and organic memory markets over the next eight years. In this report, we identify where the genuine performance improvements in these devices are occurring and how fast they can be expected to grow in process power and storage in the future.  This analysis is provided through an in-depth assessment of current commercialization efforts for OTFT/OFETs, memories and related organic “chips.” This study also provides a complete exploration of the marke...
Published Date: Aug 2012
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Thin-Film and Printed Battery Markets - 2012
The thin-film/printed battery sector has sent out mixed messages in the past year.  Several of longstanding firms in this space have established entirely plausible business models that could lead to profitability in a year or so.  Yet, at the same time, a few notable thin-film/printed battery firms have quit altogether.With these changes in mind, it seems that the thin-film/printed battery space is in need of re-examination and this is the goal of this report.  Building on NanoMarkets six years of covering the thin-film/battery, space, this report analyzes in detail the current strategies of the firms that now dominate this space and develops an extensive forecast of thin-film/printed batteries over the next eight years.  The report also examines where fi...
Published Date: Jul 2012
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BIPV Roofing Markets - 2012
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 ...
Published Date: May 2012
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Price: $2495
LED Phosphor Markets - 2012
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 spa...
Published Date: May 2012
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Price: $2495
Substrates and Encapsulation for BIPV
This report identifies the opportunities for encapsulation and substrate materials and systems in the emerging building-integrated PV (BIPV) market.  NanoMarkets believes that the BIPV sector will be the fastest growing part of the solar industry in the next decade, but that demand patterns for encapsulation and substrate materials from this sector will be different from the traditional PV industry. Even though glass will be the most widely used material for both encapsulation and substrates in the BIPV sector, special coatings may be required as the result of the use of novel absorber materials in BIPV.  In addition, NanoMarkets believes that in the emerging BIPV market there will be a considerable tren...
Published Date: May 2012
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BIPV Encapsulation Markets – 2012
As the subsidies that have supported the solar industry for years come into question or disappear altogether, the industry is looking around for new business models.  One possible direction for solar is towards building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), where the cost model is superior to regular PV.  BIPV holds out the hope that the PV industry can flourish with fewer subsidies. As things turn out, this opportunity for the PV, will also be a growing opportunity for the encapsulation business too.  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...
Published Date: May 2012
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Opportunities in the Organic Photovoltaics Market – 2012
The purpose of this update is to examine the latest opportunities and challenges for organic photovoltaics (OPV) over the next eight years. Specifically, this update provides a market analysis of recent developments in OPV, and it updates the NanoMarkets eight-year forecasts for OPV materials and devices. We examine the latest products, strategies and technical developments of the industry.  We assess whether performance improvements are likely to help grow addressable markets for OPV, or whether the OPV market’s growth will continue to underperform, thereby threatening to derail OPV completely.  As part of the update, we examine the potential for OPV in the building-integrated and/or b...
Published Date: Apr 2012
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Price: $1495
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   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.  We have also added a section that shows the main trends in the evolu...
Published Date: Apr 2012
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Encapsulation and Flexible Substrates for Thin-Film Photovoltaics
The high sensitivity to air and water vapor of thin-film PV (TFPV) is a factor that increasingly retards the market for this technology. TFPV got its big chance during the silicon shortage era, during which conventional crystalline silicon was held back by lack of availability of its main raw material.Now that the silicon shortage is over, there is a burden on the manufacturers of the newer forms of PV to find new ways to compete with c-Si modules.  Newer forms of PV are often touted for their flexibility, but the fact is that today they consist overwhelmingly of fully glass-encapsulated modules.  Rigid substrates also prevent new types of PV achieving cost advantages to the extent that they are barred from adopting R2R manufacturing processes.  The appa...
Published Date: Apr 2012
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Dye Sensitized Cell Markets – 2012
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 se...
Published Date: Apr 2012
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Metal Oxide Thin-Film Transistor Markets
Display backplanes fabricated with silicon TFTs are the industry standard for displays of all kinds.  However, in the past decade various attempts have been made to move beyond silicon either on cost or performance grounds.  A decade ago, the big promise seemed to come from organic transistors, but their promise has faded as their electron mobilities have proven to be woefully inadequate. This report analyzes the market for the next wave of non-silicon TFTs to be pitched towards backplane and other applications.  This wave uses metallic oxides and TFTs made from these materials promise electron mobilities of more or less the same level as amorphous silicon, but with lower costs.  Interest in these materials is at a high point with ...
Published Date: Apr 2012
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BIPV Glass Markets - 2012
This 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.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 tran...
Published Date: Mar 2012
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Smart Coatings and Photovoltaics 2012
This report 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 for almost sev...
Published Date: Mar 2012
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Transparent Conductors in Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaics-2012
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 industr...
Published Date: Feb 2012
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CIGS Photovoltaics Markets-2012
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 fut...
Published Date: Jan 2012
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Smart Lighting 2012
This report 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 repo...
Published Date: Jan 2012
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Conductive Coatings in Electronics and Energy Markets
NanoMarkets believes that the 2012-2013 period will be an important one for conductive coatings manufacturers.   Once a staid and stable business, the conductive coatings industry has seen a steady demand for ESD and EMI/RFI coatings and new forms of energy storage, solar, energy-efficient lighting, and the rise of flexible and transparent displays, all with unique and challenging coatings requirements. The industry is also seeing the emergence of nanomaterials and NanoMarkets is predicting that nanometals, graphene and carbon nanotubes will account for a sizeable part of the conductive coatings market in the not-to-distant future and that metal oxides and organic materials will make a greater impact on the conductive coatings market than ever before.
Published Date: Jan 2012
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Nanometals in Electronics and Energy Markets –2012 and Beyond
Nanometals” are a growing sector of the nanomaterials business that extend the uses of metals in electronics and energy markets in important ways.  Building on the traditional role of metals in these sectors, metallic nanoparticles and nanostructures (nanowires, nanorods, nanospeheres, etc.) are bringing higher performance to traditional electronics applications such as PCBs, giving nanometals immediate revenue potential.  But nanometals also have considerable potential in emerging areas of electronics such as printed electronics, creating the opportunity for new business revenue in the not-too-distant future.  The long-established use of nanosilver and nanogold in medical applications also has implications for the medical electronics business, we be...
Published Date: Jan 2012
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New Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries - 2012
  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 a...
Published Date: Jan 2012
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Smart Window Markets - 2012
After many years of being no more than a niche, the smart windows market now seems ready to take off.  NanoMarkets believes that several factors are combining to make this happen.  The most obvious perhaps is that there is growing awareness of energy conservation, green building and fuel efficient transportation by building owners and governments.  Second, the addressable markets for smart windows are expanding rapidly as the result of the growing wealth in China, India and to some extent Latin America. Concurrent with these demand side changes, improved smart windows technologies are emerging.  And as a result of all this, we believe that the smart windows market provides important growth opportunities to everyone from materials/coatings suppli...
Published Date: Jan 2012
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Price: $2995
Flexible Substrates Markets-2012
Report Summary Samsung’s announcement that it will go into production with flexible OLED displays in 2012 has rekindled an interest in flexible electronics and photovoltaics.  The emergence of this kind of technology would have many implications in the marketplace, but not the least would be the implications for firms that make the flexible glass, plastic, metals, paper and textiles that serve as the substrates for flexible electronics and solar panels. This report analyzes and quantifies the market for these flexible substrates.  Beginning with...
Published Date: Dec 2011
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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...
Published Date: Dec 2011
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Price: $3295
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. 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 ...
Published Date: Nov 2011
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Markets for Transparent Conductors in the Touch Screen Sensor Market 2012
The touch-screen sensor market has emerged as a key market for the novel transparent conductors.  Many of the suppliers of these materials have targeted the touch screen market as a source of new revenues and for a number of reasons.  Thanks to Apple, this market is viewed universally as a fast growth customer for transparent conductors, while at the same time the touch sector is said by many to be more open to adoption of new materials and processes than the mainstream display industry.NanoMarkets has been covering the transparent conductor market for six years now.  We largely agree with t...
Published Date: Nov 2011
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Opportunities for Transparent Conductors in the Touch-Screen Display Industry - 2011
Touch-screen devices have gone from being a sleepy niche in the display industry to one of its fastest growing segments.  Touch-screen displays – or rather the touch sensors that sit on top of them – are also large users of transparent conductive coatings.  No surprise then that touch screens are seen as an immediate opportunity for the many new firms that are crowding into the transparent conductor market.  And the attractiveness of the touch-screen market to the makers of novel transparent conductors is enhanced by the fact that the touch- sensor industry seems more than willing to rid themselves of a dependence on ITO with its high costs and low mechanical performance.However, today one medium-sized factory producing transparent conductors...
Published Date: Nov 2011
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Molybdenum Markets in the Electronics and Solar Industries - 2011
Report Summary In the past few years molybdenum has begun to find new markets in fast growing energy and electronics markets.  Most notably, molybdenum has found a stable market as an electrode material for CIGS solar panels.NanoMarkets believes that the use of molybdenum will continue to increase in the solar panel industry because of its strong ability to adhere to substrates and active layers.  One opportunity for molybdenum for sure is in the highly successful CdTe sector.  In addition to the solar sector, there is interesting development work being done on the use of molybdenum for...
Published Date: Nov 2011
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Price: $1995
The Markets for Flexible Glass – 2011
Report Summary \"Flexible electronics\" is an idea that has been with us for a while, but is only now beginning to inch towards reality. The concept of displays that can be rolled up and put in a pocket, or solar and lighting panels that conform to contours of a building fabric are attractive ideas, both from aesthetic and practical standpoints. But they will require flexible substrates and while a large share of the flexible electronics and solar panel market will be supported on plastic substrates, NanoMarkets believes that a substantial share of flexible substrate market will be garnered by \"flexible glass.\"...
Published Date: Oct 2011
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Markets for OLED Encapsulation Materials -2011
In this new report, NanoMarkets, analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for encapsulation materials and technologies in the fast-growing OLED market. The report covers the commercial implications of technical developments in both materials and deposition equipment, and we identify the key factors for success for encapsulation materials suppliers in this space.The report also contains detailed, eight-year forecasts of the materials used for OLED encapsulation broken out by product type and application.  Finally, 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 Vitex, Novaled and Tera Electronics, and we also at...
Published Date: Oct 2011
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Next-Generation Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric Markets - 2011
Report Summary It has been suggested that today’s dominant PV materials, crystalline silicon and cadmium telluride, are more likely to be replaced by entirely novel high-performance PV and thermoelectric technologies and materials, than today’s more well-known thin-film alternatives.   Prior generations of PV were developed using traditional R&D methodologies, where experiments to optimize materials and structures were conducted in series over many years.  Companies could reasonably expect it to take 10 to 20 years from first lab results through R...
Published Date: Oct 2011
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A Capacity and Opportunity Analysis of OLED Lighting Manufacturing
This report analyzes the current state of the art in OLED lighting fabrication and forecasts how facilities for manufacturing will evolve over the next decade.  It is the latest report in NanoMarkets’ ongoing coverage of the OLED lighting industry and is based on our company’s insider knowledge of how this industry is growing. This report answers vital questions that for executives throughout the entire OLED lighting industry:  Who is installing facilities to manufacture OLED lighting and what kind of processes are they using? What will be the roadmap for scaling up today’s OLED lighting fabs to full-scale production?  How will OLED lighting manufactu...
Published Date: Sep 2011
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Emerging Markets for Non-ITO Transparent Conductive Oxides
This report examines the market potential for transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) other than ITO.  Despite the newer advanced materials that are being proposed as substitutes for ITO, to date it is only TCOs that have successfully chased ITO out of a major end user market; thin-film PV, where fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) and aluminum zinc oxide (AZO) are already widely used.  At the same time newer TCOs are beginning to appear that have the potential to create new kinds of thin-film transistors (TFTs) for display backplanes for the newer types of displays such as those using OLEDs or even quantum dots. In the rush to cover the newer transparent conductive nanomaterials, NanoMarkets believes analyst firms have neglected the opportuni...
Published Date: Sep 2011
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Printed Gold: Gold Ink and Pastes Market - 2011
 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 t...
Published Date: Sep 2011
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Markets for Silver-Based Transparent Conductors – 2011
Report Summary Transparent conductive coatings and films have attracted both end user interest and investment in the past two years and none more so than nanosilver-based solutions.  There are as many as 15 firms now that have nanosilver-base transparent conducting materials on the market or who plan to get into this business in the not-too-distant future.   While there are a variety of other new approaches to transparent conductive materials, no other material has attracted as much attention as nanosilver.With the extremely high conductivity po...
Published Date: Sep 2011
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Nanotechnology And Nanomaterials In The Electronics Sector
Report Summary Nanomaterials are being widely applied in the electronics and computing industry, primarily arising from the need to create smaller, faster microchips and memory devices, as well as offering  improved performance for displays and sensors. Application of nanotechnology in integrated circuits is leading to improvements in processor density and performance, energy efficiency and reliability.  Intel is currently utilising an atomic layer deposition process to deposit high-k materials in the fabrication of 45 nm chips.Organic light-emitting...
Published Date: Sep 2011
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Nanomaterials Production 2002-2016: Production volumes, revenues and end user market demand
Nanomaterials are being applied across a raft of industries and technologies due to their outstanding magnetic, optical, catalytic and electronic properties, which depend greatly on their size, structure, and shape. Nanomaterials Production 2002-2016 is the only market study ever conducted on how much nanomaterials are produced.The report covers metal oxide nanopowders; carbon nanotubes; fullerenes and POSS; graphene; nanoclays; nanofibers; nanosilver; and quantum dots.
Published Date: Sep 2011
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THE WORLD MARKET FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY: Applications, Markets and Companies
Nanotechnology and nanomaterials represents a multi-billion industry today and will continue to grow over the next few years, driven by demand from the electronics, energy, chemicals, life coatings and catalysts sectors. Markets nanotechnology is leading to growth opportunities in are covered in this report including: Aerospace Automotive Coatings Cleaning and sanitary Composites Construction and exterior protection Cosmetics and personal care Electronics, optoelectronics and data storage Energy Environment, water and filtration Medical and biotechnology Military and defense Packaging Textiles The market...
Published Date: Sep 2011
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Markets for Indium-Based Materials in Photovoltaics
Report Summary This report is part of NanoMarkets’ ongoing analysis of both the PV materials space and the indium industry.  In particular we discuss what the evolution of new transparent conductors and the continued growth of the PV market will mean in terms of new opportunities for the indium industry. This opportunity analysis is carried out in the context of the big changes that the indium industry is going through at the present time with the recent developments in Chinese indium policy.  We also examine how new manufacturing technologies &...
Published Date: Aug 2011
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Radiation Detection Materials Markets - 2011
Report Summary 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 themse...
Published Date: Aug 2011
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Nanosilver Markets
  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...
Published Date: Aug 2011
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Price: $2795
Printed Battery Markets - 2011
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 f...
Published Date: Aug 2011
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Transparent Conductor Markets 2011
The report continues the firm’s coverage on the transparent conductor market spanning the past six years.  In our latest report we offer the following: 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:  Although NanoMarkets has always sought to provide the most detailed and accurate forecasts of the transparent conductor m...
Published Date: Jul 2011
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Functional Inkjet Inks for Digital Fabrication Applications -2011
Report Summary 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 form 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.  It is an additive technology it is less wasteful of materials and because it can rapidly produce highly customized products it is already widely used as a wa...
Published Date: Jul 2011
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Markets for OLED Materials
For the better part of a decade: OLED materials represented, at best, no more than niche opportunity for specialty chemical companies and a few start-ups.  The small PM OLED displays that found their way into MP3 payers and cell phone sub-displays represented an addressable market of sorts for materials firms, but one that seemed destined to be plagued forever with cost challenges and low margins. While materials firms were happy to participate in this market, their enthusiasm remained curbed by the fact that ...
Published Date: Jun 2011
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Silver, Powders and Flakes : 2011
The traditional silver powders and flakes business is being shaken up by the commercialization of silver nanopowders and nanostructures.  The arrival of these silver nanomaterials is enabling addressable markets for silver inks and powders to be expanded.   Nanosilver powders promise to become a potent new antibacterial preparation, for example.  And nanosilver inks have the potential to take printed electronics from the age of the membrane switch to the age of the printed sensor and backplane.   This new report from NanoMarkets analyzes the markets available for silver powders, flakes and nanomaterials over the next eight-years and provides detailed guidance on where the new revenue generating capabilities will emerge.  It inc...
Published Date: Jun 2011
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OLED Lighting in Europe 2011
Report Summary 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 day...
Published Date: May 2011
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OLED Lighting Global Market Forecasts: 2011
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.  In these projections we take into account developments in the OLED lighting industry in the time since we published our last forecast in August of 2010.  Our analysts have critically examined all the major recent OLED lighting announcements and have determined what the latest products, technical achievements and pilot line manufacturing mean to the future of OLED lighting and ...
Published Date: May 2011
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Price: $2495
Thin-Film Batteries: A New Market Opportunity Assessment 2011
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. ...
Published Date: May 2011
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Energy Storage Markets in the Solar Energy Industry
Report SummaryThe 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:
Published Date: Apr 2011
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Materials, Applications and Opportunities within Organic Photovoltaics - 2011
In this brand new report from NanoMarkets we provide 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 ni...
Published Date: Apr 2011
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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 industr...
Published Date: Apr 2011
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OLED Lighting in Asia - 2011
Report Summary This report analyzes the market opportunities and developments for OLED lighting in Asia and considers both the demand side of equation and the growth of an OLED supply structure in each of the countries considered.  In each country we consider what the patterns of adoption of LED lighting and the regulatory environment means for OLED lighting market prospects and include an eight year market forecast.  We also consider whether there will be an eventual shift of OLED lighting manufacturing to China and how the impact of the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan will impact the prospects ...
Published Date: Apr 2011
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Building Integrated Photovoltaics: Opportunities 2010
Report Summary Building Integrated Photovoltaics: Opportunities 2010 - Innovative Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) products and solutions provide a strategy for the PV industry to compete in an increasingly crowded marketplace. By comparison with standard PV products, BIPV products provide two key benefits to customers: improved aesthetics and cost benefits when the total cost of a building is taken into consideration. From the manufacturers perspective they also add the ability to strongly distinguish their products in a marketplace in which solar panels are rapidly becoming commodities imported from low-cost ...
Published Date: Apr 2011
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Chinese Indium Strategies: Threats and Opportunities for Displays, Photovoltaics and Electronics
China accounts for almost three-quarters of world Indium reserves and about half its Indium production; it therefore has enormous market power.  And China is willing to use it.  Although less reported than China’s activity to restrict the export of rare earths, the Chinese government has recently cut export quotas on indium.  And it seems certain that from here on out, China will treat its Indium supply as a key strategic asset to be manipulated for the nation’s geopolitical gain.This situation is already beginning to worry Japanese display makers and in many ways it couldn’t have come at a worse time for users of all kinds and nationalities.  The indium tin oxide (ITO) component in display bills-of-materials is already a cost burd...
Published Date: Mar 2011
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Next-Generation Smart Windows: Materials and Markets: 2011
Report Summary 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. &nb...
Published Date: Mar 2011
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Smart Coatings for Photovoltaics
Report Summary This new report from NanoMarkets examines the role of self-cleaning, self-healing, electrochromic and thermochromic coatings encapsulation 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, Nippo...
Published Date: Mar 2011
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Price: $2495
New Business Opportunities in Asian BIPV Markets
Report Summary We have provided coverage of the Building Integrated PV (BIPV) space for several years now and view this sector of the PV market as having high growth prospects, because of its attractive economics and aesthetics.But all BIPV markets are local and in different countries BIPV revenues will be shaped by local regulations and conditions in the building industry. And with this in mind, this report identifies and quantifies the business opportunities that are appearing as a result of the deployment of BIPV in Asia. While much of the rest of the world has seen massive declines in its construc...
Published Date: Mar 2011
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The Business Case for Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductors
Report Summary The Business Case for Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductors - In this report, we examine 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 earl...
Published Date: Feb 2011
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Smart Coatings Markets 2011
Report Summary Smart coatings include a wide variety of materials ranging polymers to many kinds of metal compounds to biomaterials of various kinds.  They may also be single layers or multilayer formulations.  What this very diverse collection of materials has in common and what these materials offer in the marketplace is the ability to offer significantly enhanced functionality in a number of important areas; hence the name “smart.”  More specifically, smart coatings are able to provide an appropriate and predictable response to outside conditions changes in environment.&n...
Published Date: Feb 2011
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Transparent Conductors for Display: Market Opportunities 2011
Report Summary Displays are without a doubt the largest market for transparent conductors and this is a situation unlikely to change.  Displays are also a safe haven for ITO, since, despite constant grumbling, the display industry has been unwilling to switch to ITO alternatives.  This is understandable, given the huge commitment of the dominant LCD sector to ITO in time and money.However, if the firms offering ITO alternatives are ever to move past their status as a cottage industry, they will have to take a measureable share of the display industry.  The two big strategic questions for the ...
Published Date: Feb 2011
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CIGS Photovoltaics Market Opportunities 2011
Report Summary CIGS Photovoltaics Market Opportunities 2011 - 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 ...
Published Date: Feb 2011
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Smart Grid Sensing, Monitoring and Control Systems : Market Opportunities 2011
Report Summary The recent acquisition by Cisco of the Smart Grid monitoring company Arch Rock highlights the key role played by sensing, monitoring systems in the Smart Grid. To make them truly "smart" electricity grids require "ears and eyes" and this is exactly what Smart Grid sensing and monitoring systems provide. Smart Grids also need "muscle" and this why sensing and monitoring systems also increasingly incorporate control functionality of various kinds. Because of their core value to the whole Smart Grid concept, we believe that Sensing, Monitoring and Control systems for the Smart G...
Published Date: Feb 2011
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Growth Markets for Conductive Polymers in Electronics and Optoelectronics
Report Summary Growth Markets for Conductive Polymers in Electronics and Optoelectronics - Often branded as a class of \"miracle\" advanced materials that will transform electronics and photovoltaics, the actual record of conductive polymers has been decidedly mixed. 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.Does this mean that the conductive polymer s...
Published Date: Jan 2011
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Transparent Conductors in Photovoltaics: Market Opportunities 2011
Report Summary Transparent Conductors in Photovoltaics: Market Opportunities 2011 - We view the opportunities for manufacturers of transparent conductor from sales 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, we analyze and quantifies these differences and identifies how transparent conductor firms with novel products can penetrate, grow, and make money in t...
Published Date: Jan 2011
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The Business Case for Building Integrated Photovoltaics
The Business Case for Building Integrated Photovoltaics  - As the conventional solar panels business becomes increasingly commoditized, the solar panel industry is seeking out new ways to add value to their products. Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) represents one strategy for achieving this. In the past, the business case for photovoltaics has been made entirely on the basis of return on investment, with the primary performance factor at the solar panel level being efficiency. From a strategic perspective, what BIPV brings to the table is a range of new ways that will enable solar panel makers to distinguish their products in the marketplace to a degree that has not been possible up to now. BIPV also cuts t...
Published Date: Jan 2011
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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 ...
Published Date: Dec 2010
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The Business Case for OLED Lighting
With new companies entering the OLED lighting business seemingly every month, it is increasingly vital to go beyond the hype and identify why the world really needs OLED lighting and how the manufacturing and marketing of OLED lighting can generate new business revenues.   Is the sudden rise of the OLED lighting business just a reaction to the fact that the developed world is phasing out incandescent bulbs leaving a gap that other types of lighting can fill, or is there more to it?   This timely report begins by identifying the factors that create mass markets for new lighting technologies, providing a guide to what OLED manufacturers will have to achieve before they can move beyond the current low-volume “designer lighting” ...
Published Date: Dec 2010
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Thin-Film Photovoltaics Materials Markets, 2011 and Beyond
This report provides the latest in NanoMarkets’ ongoing coverage of the markets for materials for the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) space.  NanoMarkets is unique in its coverage of the materials used in TFPV and we have been providing insightful analysis in this space for more than four years.  Much has happened since our report last year.  First Solar has established that CdTe can be a cost leader for solar panels.  And TFPV, because of its inherent flexibility, seems increasingly well suited to use in building integrated PV one of the fastest growing segments of the PV segment as a whole.At the same time, the silicon shortage has gone away and with it one of the most persuasive arguments for using a TFPV technology rather than conventional ...
Published Date: Dec 2010
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Market Opportunities for Supercapacitors
Like many “new” technologies, the supercapacitor actually has a long history that goes back decades.  In the past few years, though, new materials and improvements in manufacturing have made supercapacitors a force to reckoned with in the energy storage world.  In addition, the range of applications for supercapacitors have broadened to the point where it seems supercapacitors will almost certainly be a major revenue opportunity for both device makers and materials companies over the coming decade.The uses of supercapacitors also seem to fit well with the current enthusiasm for green technologies.  They have, for example, been used in green building, wind turbines, and for frequency regulation in Smart Grids.  Meanwhile, supercapacitor u...
Published Date: Nov 2010
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Transparent Conductor Markets in the OLED Industry 2011 and Beyond
Check the Related Report link on the right for new reports issued since this report was published NanoMarkets has predicted that OLEDs will be one of the fastest-growing markets for transparent conductors.  This is because after years of OLEDs being confined to small passive matrix (PM) displays, this technology is now bursting out of its confines into lighting and especially into cell phone main displays, a now completely commercialized application.  It seems that large active matrix (AM) OLED TVs priced competitively with LCD displays will not be far behind.  In the past, some OLED TVs have appeared on the retail market, but both their price and performance have suggested that they were intended to test the waters not to generate large amounts of ...
Published Date: Nov 2010
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Energy Storage Opportunities in the Wind Power Industry
Increasing the use of wind power is a key goal of energy policy set by governments around the world.  Renewable energy deployment plans in every major country include a substantial share for wind; wind is favored because it is a domestic source of energy, is “clean and green,” and because there is plenty of wind to be had.  For example, in the U.S., the American Wind Energy Association has claimed that the amount of wind energy available is much greater than the national demand for energy.But while large wind farms are already in place in Europe, Asia and the U.S., none of them can claim much commercial success and it is pretty clear why.  Wind energy is non-coincident – that is, it tends to be generated at times when it cannot be used ...
Published Date: Oct 2010
Published By: NanoMarkets

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