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Organic Electronics Materials: New Revenues, New Challenges
Glen Allen, VA — Organic electronics materials are poised on the brink of an enormous upsurge in worldwide applications, according to a new report. NanoMarkets has recently published a report on organic materials and according to its latest numbers this little niche business will exceed $1.0 billion in sales for the first time by 2010 and then go on to reach $15.8 billion by 2015.

Today, organic electronics materials are all about OLEDs. It is believed that some 80 percent of materials sold for OE at the present time are for this application. But that is going to change. Coming up fast are OTFT applications in RFID and display backplanes. During 2007, we saw the first tentative steps to the commercialization of both applications. Although the case for neither application has been made fully, OTFTs do seem to be an attractive route to both ultra-low cost RFID tags and flexible backplanes.

By 2012, organic electronics materials sales into the RFID sector will actually exceed sales of materials into the currently all-important OLED market. Sales into the display backplane sector probably never will exceed OLED materials sales, but they are still significant. At the moment, display backplanes using organic materials account for under $1 million, mostly made up of some pentacene and some plastic substrates. However, by 2015 we will be talking $1.8 billion of materials sold into the organic backplane sector, if the semiconductors, conductors, dielectrics and substrates are all added up.

Growth Still Slow
While 2007 hasn't been the best of years for the OLED industry. OLEDs have not moved into cell phone main display sector as fast as some people hoped and retooling by display firms in Asia made the second half of 2007 a very poor one for OLED production.

On the other hand, 2007 wasn't the worst of years for OLEDs either. We are seeing the beginnings of a new revolution in television in the form of OLED TVs. These are beautiful slim things with vibrant colors that do real justice to HDTV feeds in a way that the LCD displays could never do.

The good news for the materials firms is that one of these big OLED displays is going to use a lot more OLED materials than hundreds of those tiny little OLED displays that are currently used in MP3 players and cell phone sub-displays.

For more information, contact: NanoMarkets, LC, PO Box 3840, Glen Allen, VA 23058 804-270-7010 fax: 804-270-7017 Web: http://www.nanomarkets.net  
 
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