Organic Electronics Materials: New Revenues and New Challenges

By 2012, we expect that 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 we still have great expectations for them. At the moment, display backplanes using organic materials account for under $1 million mostly made up of some pentacene and some plastic substrates. We think, 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.