Transparent conductive films are used for displays, some photovoltaics and touch screen modules. In 2012, 93% of the market uses Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) - which can be expensive depending on the current price of indium and is brittle, and barely flexible. Other metal oxides are used, particularly in some thin film photovoltaics which offer a cost advantage over ITO.

1. 2012-2022 Transparent Conductive Films
Transparent conductive films are used for displays, some photovoltaics and touch screen modules. In
2012, 93% of the market uses Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) - which can be expensive depending on the current
price of indium and is brittle, and barely flexible. Other metal oxides are used, particularly in some thin
film photovoltaics which offer a cost advantage over ITO.
However, now there are many other emerging technologies, from finely printed conductive meshes, to
layers of silver or copper that are highly transparent, to organic transparent conductors, and variations
such as carbon nanotubes and graphene. This report assesses the technical progress of these options,
and their market sweet spot (if any) and forecast penetration.
Each option has trade-offs between conductivity, cost, transmittance, and flexibility. Each can be
patterned in different ways. While sputtering will remain an important and high-volume technology for
coating of rigid substrates like glass, solution-based processes including printing and the use of organic
and nanoparticle materials have already gained a lot of traction and are expected to dominate the
market for the flexible applications within a few years. Significant new developments are being made
with both the materials used and how they can be deposited. This report addresses the performance of
the different options and profiles organizations around the world that are developing better solutions.
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While ESD (electro static discharge) applications have moderate requirements concerning the properties
of TCFs, demands in devices such as OLEDs are more complex. The main reason is that in that case, not
only the standard properties as conductivity, cost, transmittance and flexibility are important, but the
interactions with other layers play an important role, namely charge carrier injection. In addition, for
large area devices, homogeneity is more critical, especially when it comes to display and lighting
applications. The human eye is more sensitive to changes in brightness than to changes in colour, and
brightness of an light emitting device depends on the electrical conditions - voltage in the case of
inorganic electroluminescence, current flow in the case of electrochromic and light-emitting
semiconductors.
Market forecasts 2012-2022

2. IDTechEx find that the market for TCFs will be $1.63 billion in 2012. This is the cost of the material used
for the TCF, excluding the substrate and processing cost. It is based on a ground-up calculation of the
material usage by each type of device, and benchmarking with results from exhaustive interviews of
users and suppliers of TCFs. The report gives ten year forecasts by TCF technology, in addition to ten
year forecasts of the TCF area required by application.
We study the processing cost of different options - for example, the material cost of Carbon Nanotubes
(CNT) are similar to ITO but the structure of a CNT TCF is much simpler and much easier to make and
therefore overall the CNT TCF, like for like, can be cheaper.
Few Major points covered in Table of Contents
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS (TCF): MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES
3. APPLICATIONS AND REQUIRED PROPERTIES OF TCFS
4. MAIN CRITERIA OF TCFS
5. MATERIALS USED FOR TCFS
6. MANUFACTURING OF TCFS
7. COMPANIES
8. FORECASTS FOR TCF FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS 2012-2022
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