Organic Electronics Materials: New Revenues and New Challenges

NanoMarkets has just published a new report - “Organic Harvest: Opportunities in Organic Electronic Materials” and according to our latest numbers this currently “nichey” little 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.

In doing so it is going to take some interesting new paths. Today, organic electronics materials are all about OLEDs. We think 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.