NanoMarkets Report Details Opportunities in Organic Electronics

Innovations are making traditional thermal deposition techniques increasingly effective in today’s OE fab. This contrasts with the consensus of a few years ago, which said that printing would soon become the wave of the future for fabricating OE devices. New roll-to-roll vacuum equipment is increasing throughput, lowering costs and making deposition more uniform. Organic vapor phase deposition (OVPD) is improving on the traditional evaporation process by eliminating the need for line-of-sight deposition. Thermal evaporation molecular jet (MoJET) printing is bringing printing like control to thermal evaporation. Both OVPD and MoJET-by depositing material uniformly one point at a time-simultaneously solve the patterning, uniformity, and utilization problems inherent in typical vapor deposition. NanoMarkets' new report claims that total sales of all equipment for OE applications are expected to grow from $226 million in 2011, to $378.6 million in 2014.