How Plastic Electronics and Carbon Nanotubes Are Creating New Opportunities in the Display Business

SUMMARY

Summary:

For decades display technology meant CRTs. In the 1980s, the arrival ofelectronic games and cell phones resulted in the spread of primitive LED and LCDdisplays. With HDTV now a reality, there has been a burst of activity with newtypes of thinner, higher-resolution screens based on LCDs, plasma and even MEMS.Nanotechnology now appears to offer some important new directions for displaysthat could present serious challenges to established CRT, LCD and plasmadisplays for the television and IT market, as well as revolutionary new flexibledisplays that will address the needs of the burgeoning mobility market.

This report examines the impact that nanotechnology will have on the displaybusiness and when that impact will occur. In addition to an assessment of thenew nanotech-enabled displays, this report also provides profiles and strategicappraisals of firms active in the nanodisplay sector, along with an eight-yearmarket forecast broken out by display type, size and technology platform.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Chapter One: Introduction

• 1.1 Background to Report
  1.2 Scope of Report
  1.3 Methodology of Report
  1.4 Plan of Report

Chapter Two: Assessment of Nanotechnologies Impacting theDisplay Industry

• 2.1 Plastic Electronics and Flexible Displays
  2.1.1 Comparison of Alternative Technologies for Flexible Displays
  2.1.2 Key Technical and Market Advantages
  2.1.3 Prospects for Roll-up Displays and "Electronic Paper"
  2.1.4 Outstanding Technical Issues and Factors Retarding the Market
  2.2 Carbon Nanotubes and Field Emission Displays
  2.2.1 Key Technical and Market Advantages
  2.2.2 Comparison with Existing Display Technologies
  2.2.3 Outstanding Technical Issues and Factors Retarding the Market
  2.3 The Role of OLEDs

Chapter Three: Strategic Assessment of Firms Involved withNano-Displays

• 3.1 Applied Nanotech
  3.2 Asahi Glass
  3.3 Cambridge Display Technologies
  3.4 cDream
  3.5 DuPont
  3.6 France Telecom
  3.7 Eikos
  3.8 E Ink
  3.9 French Atomic Energy Authority
  3.10 Hitachi
  3.11 ITRI
  3.12 Lucent/Bell Labs
  3.13 Mitsubishi
  3.14 Motorola/Freescale
  3.15 NHK
  3.16 Noritake
  3.17 Philips/Polymer Vision
  3.18 Polymer Vision
  3.19 Samsung
  3.20 Sony
  3.21 Firms Working On Military Displays

Chapter Four: Forecast of Nano-Display Markets by Size andTechnology Platform

• 4.1 Television Displays
  4.2 Computer Displays
  4.3 Cell Phone/Handheld Displays
  4.4 Military Displays
  4.4 Other Displays