NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report on ITO and Alternative Transparent Conductors

May 19, 2010 - PRLog -- Glen Allen, VA:  NanoMarkets, a leading provider of market research and analysis for advanced materials and emerging energy and electronics markets, has announced a new report that reexamines the market for indium tin oxide (ITO) and alternative transparent conductors.  The report titled, “Transparent Conductor Markets 2010: ITO and the Alternatives” is due to be released in June of 2010.  The report continues the firm’s industry leading coverage of the space since 2007.  Details including an excerpt can be found at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/transparent_conductor_markets_2010_ito_and_the_alternatives/


About the report:

This report provides a new opportunity analysis of the transparent conductor market landscape: ITO, the clear leader in both the largest market—displays—and in applications that are not yet commercial; other transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) that provide cost relief but little else; transparent organic conductors that are having a heyday in antistatic and other lower-performance applications; and the expanding field of nanomaterials including carbon nanotubes, graphene, metal nanowires and nanoparticles, and composite materials combining one or more of these materials, sometimes with others like ITO or organics.  The report also explores the alternative approaches to ITO deposition, mainly the on-again, off-again efforts toward commercializing ITO inks.

The report discusses strategic marketing issues and provides detailed forecasts of the market penetration by application of each of the transparent conductor classes, as well as discussing the latest activities of the leading and most promising companies working in this field.  In particular, we look at the future for ITO in the many applications in which final product prices are expected to decline, while ITO costs are expected to increase.

Outline of the report:

Executive Summary

2010: The slow road to recovery and the impact on transparent conductor markets
ITO’s strongholds: where ITO is assured of a growing market
ITO ceding ground: where alternative transparent conductors will make major inroads
Opportunities for other transparent conducting oxides
Opportunities for transparent organic conductors
Opportunities for nanomaterials

New Developments in ITO and Other Transparent Conductors

Introduction
ITO and cost: the rebounding market for indium
Is the indium market different now than before the recession?
Will the indium scare return?
Recycling and reclamation of indium and ITO
Addressing ITO’s flexibility and wastage concerns: alternative deposition
ITO inks and printing
How much indium can be saved?
Addressing just the cost: other transparent conducting oxides
Tin oxide and coated glass substrates
Zinc oxide and the top of the layer stack
Other TCOs, with and without indium
Transparent organic conductors as a low-cost, flexible alternative
PEDOT:PSS and performance
Cost trends for PEDOT:PSS
Nanosilver and other nanometals: metal’s new life as a conductor
From metal grids to random metal networks
Cost considerations with nanosilver
Nanosilver’s performance
Carbon nanotubes: the prospect of higher performance and lower cost
Limiting the carbon nanotube: making them “just conductors”
The carbon nanotube cost roadmap
A word about graphene

Applications and Markets for ITO and Other Transparent Conductors

Conventional flat-panel display markets: stuck on ITO
Efforts to introduce different transparent conductors
What will it take to displace ITO?
Newer displays: e-paper, OLEDs, and the promise of flexibility
Where e-paper stands with regard to transparent conductors
The elusive goal of flexibility
Touch-screens: increasing demands on transparent conductors
Analog-resistive touch-screens and the durability issue
Analog-resistive touch-screens and the cost issue
Distributed-capacitive touch-screens: where transparency and conductivity rule
Photovoltaics: ITO on the way out
Thin-film silicon and the ongoing exodus from ITO
OPV and DSC: what will replace ITO, and will it matter?
Are alternative FTO and AZO here to stay?
Solid-state lighting: rapid changes and the impact on transparent conductors
The quest for anything but ITO
When will OLED lighting go flexible?
Other applications for transparent conductive coatings
Transparent antistatic coatings
Transparent electromagnetic shielding


Forecasts for ITO and Alternative Transparent Conductor Markets by material type and by application

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