Nascence of Printed Electronics Market Ensures Heated R&D Activity in Academic and Industry Platforms, Observes Frost & Sullivan

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Nascence of Printed Electronics Market

Ensures Heated R&D Activity in Academic and

Industry Platforms, Observes Frost & Sullivan

PR Newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 21, 2012

- Advances in materials and equipment expand the application scope

of printed electronics

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California

,

June 21, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- Printing techniques

is an emerging market characterized by frenetic research and development

(R&D) activities, as well as inking of numerous partnerships. Governments all

over the world are lending their support to printed electronics (PE) by way of

funding R&D efforts on techniques and processes, thereby encouraging more

companies to enter the market. As printing methods are already well

established and the technical expertise required for setting up business is low,

this market is easily accessible to new entrants.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.technicalinsights.frost.com),

Opportunities in Printed Electronics

, finds that flexography, gravure,

offset, inkjet, and screen-printing are the PE techniques currently in use. On the

other hand, new technologies like atomic layer deposition and aerosol jet

printing have a huge scope; with the right kind of effort, PE can be fine-tuned to

achieve low costs and high volume production capacities.

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country.

"PE enables the use of flexible substrates, which lower production costs and

allows the fabrication of mechanically flexible circuits," says Technical Insights

Industry Analyst Saju John Mathew. "The choice of printing methods is

determined by requirements concerning printed layers, properties of printed

materials, as well as economic and technical considerations of printed

products."

Some factors that have popularized PE include its low-cost volume fabrication,

flexibility, transparency, reliability and environment friendliness.

Due to its high throughput and low manufacturing cost, PE has a quick time-to-

market turnaround. PE integrates the techniques and technology from printing,

electronics, material science and chemistry - especially organic and polymer

chemistry. Organic materials differ from conventional electronics in structure,

operation and functionality, which in turn influence the device, circuit design,

optimization, and fabrication method.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Rather, there are a variety of PE

technologies that are ensconced in their own niche sector based on their

attributes. Additionally, the industry's supply chain is missing an integrated

manufacturer that can link all the different components.

The materials involved in the manufacturing of PE possess diverse optical,