1. The Market for Gold Inks 2013-2019
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Published:October 2012
No. of Pages: 72
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Gold is a precious metal that is used in the electronics industry due to its stability characteristics.
In this report we look at the opportunity for gold-based inks in the printed electronics space,
assessing it's potential penetration in applications varying from thin film transistors to emerging
photovoltaics, photo-detectors and other types of sensors.
This report is looking to identify and assess the opportunities for a printable nano-gold ink,
excluding its use in graphic arts applications.
Compelling benefits highlighted by potential users in our interviews are its high stability - unlike
silver there is no crystal growth which is often damaging when interfacing with other materials- and
no tarnishing, leading to high reliability and longevity. It has a high work function making it of
particular interest as an electrode in many printed architectures. It is also of interest to those
working with organic materials as these are prone to failure over time when interfaced with silver
electrodes due to migration issues.
However, gold's high cost is an important disadvantage -starting with the costs for the bulk
material. In fact, prices for silver inks are already considered too high, with efforts underway to
identify solutions such as copper-based inks in order to reduce costs. Despite this, we have
identified several market opportunities where the benefits of using gold could potentially outweigh
the higher cost.
There are several organizations using nano-particle gold inks today, but most of the work is R&D
and some way from commercialisation. Suppliers of gold ink today that are selling ink
commercially -albeit in small quantities- include NanoMas Technologies Inc, Johnson Matthey and
Harima (inkjet-printed inks). Screen printable versions are also available (such as from
Electroscience Ltd, UK). In addition to these, some companies have formulated gold inks in-house
or supply gold inks to a few key customers, but do not make them available commercially.
All these companies are profiled and/or interviewed in this report, giving insight in the role that gold
inks will play in future electronics applications.
Forecasts to 2019 are also included in this report, highlighting the most relevant applications in
which the performance benefis of gold-based inks could outweigh its inherent high cost.
This report would be very useful to developers of gold inks, but also to companies who consider
moving away from ink solutions based on other metals due to issues relating to their performance.
The stability (no tarnishing, no oxidizing) that gold inks provide could be the non-compromising
solution that, if applied in a way that doesn't utilise large amounts of the bulk material, could

2. establish routes to becoming cost effective in niche markets.
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Major points covered in Table of Contents of this report include
Table of Contents
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Situation Today
1.2. Market Opportunities
2. GOLD INK: METRICS AND COMPARISONS WITH SILVER AND COPPER
3. PRINTED ELECTRONICS: MARKETS OVERVIEW AND SIZE
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Definitions
3.3. Total market opportunity
4. POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR NANOGOLD IN PRINTED ELECTRONICS - WHERE IT
COULD BE USED FOR AND ASSESSMENT OF EACH ONE
4.1. Transistors and Memory
4.2. Transistor and Memory interviews
4.2.1. Prof Vivek Subramanian, University of California Berkeley, USA
4.2.2. Wolfgang Mildner, Managing Director, PolyIC, Germany
4.2.3. Professor Iain McCulloch, Imperial College, London
4.2.4. Dr. Luigi Occhipinti, Thin/ThickFilm Memory: STMicroelectronics
4.3. OLED Displays/Lighting
4.4. OLED Displays/Lighting interviews
4.4.1. Jim Dietz, VP of business development, Plextronics
4.4.2. Dr Ansgar Werner, Senior Manager, head of BL materials, Michael Hoffman, team leader on
OPV products, Novaled
4.4.3. Jeremy Burroughes, CTO, CDT
4.4.4. Stephen Clemmet, CEO, Polymertronics
4.5. Photovoltaics
4.6. Photovoltaics interviews
4.6.1. Odersun: Carlos Bermejo Pascual, Product marketing manager, CIGS Solar Cells
4.6.2. Soltecture: Merten Guse, Director of product management, CIGS Solar cells
4.6.3. Solarion: Markus Munch, Solar module division director, CIGS Solar Cells
4.6.4. Avancis: Dr Thomas Niesen, Development Engineer, CIGS Solar Cells
4.6.5. ENSOL
4.7. Conductors, edge connectors, sensors, stretchable electronics
4.8. Sensors interviews
4.8.1. Dr David Sime, Director Technology Transfer, Soligie, USA
4.8.2. Dr Gordon Smith, CTO, GSI Technologies
4.8.3. Gilman Callsen, MC10, USA

3. 4.9. Other - Piezoelectric energy harvesters
4.9.1. Dr. Paul H Chappell, University of Southampton
4.10. Material companies interviews
4.10.1. John Hannafin, President and CEO, NanoMas Technologies
4.10.2. Stephen Clemmet, CEO, Polymertronics
4.10.3. Sally Martin, DuPont
4.10.4. Dr. Ian Clark, Sales & Marketing Directod, Intrinsiq Semiconductors
4.10.5. Dr Jurgen Steiger, Senior project manager, Evonik Degussa
4.10.6. Stan Farnsworth, VP Marketing, Novacentrix
4.10.7. Charles Barclay , Electroscience Ltd
4.11. IBM Nano-printing of gold
5. MARKET FORECASTS FOR GOLD NANOPARTICLE INKS, 2013-2019
5.1. Market Assessments
5.2. Printed transistors and memory
5.3. Electrochemical Sensors including Organic Photodetectors
5.4. Other conductor applications
5.5. Further Comments
5.6. Conclusions
6. COMPANY PROFILES
6.1. ElectroScience Ltd
6.2. Harima
6.3. Johnson Matthey
6.4. Liquid X Printed Metals Inc.
6.5. Nanomade
6.6. NanoMas
6.7. Noritake
6.8. ULVAC
APPENDIX 1: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTANCY
List of Tables
1.1. Uses for printed nano-gold inks
1.2. Novel uses for printed nano-gold inks
1.3. Estimated market size for gold ink
2.1. Key specifications of gold, silver and copper
3.1. Description and analysis of the main technology components and devices representing
printed and potentially printed electronics
3.2. Market forecast by component type for 2013 to 2019 in US $ billions, for printed and
potentially printed electronics including organic, inorganic and composites
4.1. Semiconductor options for transistor technologies
5.1. Potential outlook for gold in printed transistors and memory
5.2. Potential for printed sensors
5.3. Potential for other conductor applications
5.4. Estimated market size for gold ink

4. 6.1. Properties of silver and gold inks from Liquid X
6.2. Noritake gold pastes.
6.3. ULVAC product table
List of Figures
1.1. Price of bulk silver and gold in US$/ounce
1.2. Gold-silver ration until 2012
1.3. Estimated market size for gold ink
3.1. Market forecast by component type for 2013-2019 in US $ billions, for printed and potentially
printed electronics including organic, inorganic and composites
4.1. Schematic of the tunable color filter. The combination of a gold film with ring-shaped holes
and the use of liquid crystals (red and green) enables pixels of a defined color that can be turned
on and off
4.2. From Printing to Nano-Printing
5.1. Estimated market size for gold ink
6.1. Harima's gold nanoparticles
6.2. Electronic tracks printed at room temperature
6.3. Gold-based resistive strain gauges by Nanomad
6.4. Printed TFT utilizing NanoGold™ inks and a TEM image of Nanomas' gold nano-particles.
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