idtechex research: problems that printed electronics is solving

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Problems that Printed Electronics is Solving

Raghu Das, CEOIDTechEx.com / [email protected]


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What is Printed, Flexible, Organic Electronics?Enabling materials and

manufacturing processes...

...creating these devices...

...being exploited by these industries…

…because benefits caninclude…

• Metallic ink • Organic semiconductors• Inorganic semiconductors• Dielectrics• Carbon nanotubes, graphene• Conductive polymers• Glass, polymer, paper and steel substrates

• Flexible barrier films, adhesives, encapsulants

• Quantum dot materials• Printing processes (inkjet, gravure, flexo, screen, roto-screen, dip pen nanolithography, lithography)

• Vacuum deposition, spin coating, ALD, CVD, sputtering

• Sintering, curing (photonic, heat, UV, IR)

• Thin Film Transistor Circuits (TFTs)

• Memory• Displays (OLED, e-paper, electrochromic, electrowetting, electroluminescent)

• Lighting (OLED, LED)• Sensors (photo detectors, temperature, pressure, bioelectronic etc)

• Photovoltaics (CdTe, CIGS, DSSC, OPV)

• Batteries, supercapacitors• Transparent conductive films• Actuators and haptics• RFID• New Products• Stretchable electronics• Touch screens

• Healthcare• Consumer Goods• Consumer Electronics• Aerospace and Military• Media & Advertising• Architecture & the Built Environment

• Transportation

Lowcost

NEW FORM FACTORSflexible, thin, conformal, transparent, stretchableTECHNICALLY

SUPERIOReg better displays,

readability in sunlight, PV more efficient

in lower light levels, bio-compatible

PRODUCTIONLarger areas,

faster production and turn around


Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands are loosing markets share to supermarket own brands which legally copy with much development or marketing costs.

Brands seek differentiation, customer loyalty and protected uniques that are valued by customers.

“Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) shrinkage is $60 billion yearly of $3 trillion turnover.” ECR Europe

Problems in the Retail Industry

Stockouts at retailers cost six percent of sales. One third of these are items in the retailer’s store.

Consumers and regulations increasingly demand more information printed on the package – which instead needs to sell the product.

And… it has to sell the product! – be entertaining, etc


A glimpse how printed, flexible and large area electronics is addressing these challenges

Thin Film Electronics


Two thirds of the people who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today

Diagnose and treat yourself – not enough carers, doctors or nurses

Problems in Healthcare

Source : National Statistics

“Medication non-compliance costs the US alone approximately $100 billion and 125,000 deaths yearly”

In the third world, 32 million children under the age of five die every year from food related illness. 20 million die yearly of preventable diseases. UN

“A high proportion of drugs in the US military are unnecessarily trashed because handling/ storage is not monitored” US Military DOD Shelf Life Extension Program SLEP


Today these are usually bulky, rigid devices where the user conforms to the device, rather than the device conforms to the user

Many sectors will suffer from heavy commoditization

Largest challenges are in increasing sensor reliability, developing efficient energy harvesting and storage systems for power-hungry components and making devices increasingly invisible to the wearer.

Flexible electronics will provide a strong differentiator

Problems with Wearable Technology

Source: IDTechEx report “Wearable Technology 2015-2025” www.IDTechEx.com



Respiration sensors detecting changes in dimensions of the conductive track induced by breathing

Impact sensor by BeBop. Here 6 layers of various stretchable inks are printed

Activity tracking functionality (HRM, EMG, etc) by Clothing+ and DuPont

Vista Medical

Rest Devices

BlueSpark


Weight of wiring, components etc which effects the fuel efficiency and they cover relatively large areas

Moving from petrol to electric, requiring improvements in big batteries, supercapacitors, thermal interface materials

Distributed sensors needed for autonomous vehicles

Progress towards totally energy independent vehicles

Problems with Vehicles



Boeing use a printed electronics system for bird strike detection

Increasingly, supercapacitors are being made by printing to reduce cost

Mechanical switches and copper wiring replaced by a molded one piece printed

system

Structural electronics – the boot lid is the supercapacitor (Volvo working with Imperial

College)

T-ink


Large investments in Asia can disrupt industries globally, collapsing margin for incumbents, such as the PV industry and LCD panel industry. Companies have to innovate to differentiate products

Smart phones and tablets are beginning to saturate. Cash rich companies seek new things

Consumers want higher degrees of customization. Smaller batches or a higher number of product liens are being made and this trend will continue

Incremental desirable improvements are thinner devices, more robust devices, smaller/no edge bezels around screens, longer battery life, ease of charging…

Problems in Consumer Electronics, IoT etc



Apple watch has an OLED

display in plastic to be thinner,

and more robust

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge: has a wrap-around OLED display (rigid plastic) with a 7 mm bending radius at the sharpest point.

KENT Displays launch the Boogie Board enabling a completely new product category


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