This is the latest in NanoMarkets’
ongoing series of industry analysis reports on silver inks and pastes.
In this report we analyze how the changes within the applications for
silver inks and pastes have impacted the business and what this means over the
coming years.
On the positive side, the solar
panel industry is reviving and is much more oriented toward crystalline
silicon (c-Si) panels than before the great solar crash. This is good
news for the silver pastes business, because c-Si panels are major consumes of
silver. Silver inks and pastes suppliers also have some reason to be
hopeful about the likelihood of large OLED lighting and displays panels
finally being commercialized, since silver undoubtedly has a role to play in
OLED electrodes.
The negatives for the silver inks
and pastes business include the fact that plasma televisions and membrane
switches, both which have consumed a considerable amount of silver pastes are
phasing out and printed electronics is gradually being abandoned as a viable
application by many suppliers.
This report also examines the
commercial implications for silver inks and paste markets. In this
year’s report, we place a special emphasis on the replacement of silver by
copper in critical applications such as solar panels. We also re-examine the
future of silver inks and pastes in the light of the rising Internet-of-Things
meme and address whether or not there will there be demand for printed silver
used within all those sensors and smart objects. Finally, we take one
more look to see if nanosilver inks will ever make it out of the “research
material” category.
In this evolving market
environment, this report identifies which market opportunities for silver inks
and pastes are likely to be the most important over the next decade. And
as with other NanoMarkets reports, we also include detailed eight-year
forecasts in both volume and value terms, with breakouts by application, type
of material and type of printing process used. The report also contains
an assessment of the product/market strategies of leading silver inks and
pastes firms – both the traditional and the new suppliers that appearing from
China and India.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary
E.1 The Silver Inks and Pastes
Market: Luck Still Holding
E.2 Thick Film: Signs of Life
E.3 Solar Panel Prospects:
Silver Inks and Pastes Opportunities
E.3.1 Using Less Silver per Panel
E.3.2 Silver and the Future of
Thin-Film PV
E.4 Future Revenue Generation for Silver
Inks/Pastes from Lighting, Displays, and Sensors
E.5 Key Firms to Watch in the
Silver Inks and Pastes Business
E.5.1 Traditional Suppliers:
DuPont, Henkel, and Heraeus
E.5.2 Competition from Around the
World
E.6 Summary of Eight-Year Forecasts
for Silver Inks and Pastes
E.6.1 Impact of Silver Prices
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to this Report
1.1.1 Changes Since the Last Report
1.1.2 Continuing Prospects for
Silver Inks and Pastes
1.2 Objectives and Scope of this
Report
1.3 Methodology of this Report
1.3.1 Data Sources
1.3.2 Forecasting Methodology
1.3.3 Pricing Assumptions and
Pricing Trends for Silver Inks and Pastes
1.3.4 General Economic and Policy
Assumptions
1.4 Plan of this Report
Chapter Two: Silver Inks and Pastes
– Materials, Processes and Suppliers
2.1 Legacy Materials: Thick-Film
Pastes and Thin-Film Inks
2.2 Opportunities for Nanosilver
Beyond R&D
2.3 Competing Materials
2.3.1 Copper as a Potential Threat
2.3.2 Carbon-based Conductive Inks
2.4 Shifts in Processing and
Printing Methods to Meet the Demand of Different Applications
2.4.1 Alternative Printing Methods
Hold Onto Niches
2.4.2 Screen Printing Broadens Its
Reach
2.5 Key Suppliers of Silver Inks
and Pastes
2.5.1 Traditional Silver Materials
Suppliers Focus on PV
2.5.2 Offerings from PCB Materials
Suppliers
2.5.3 Nanosilver Suppliers Address
Challenges
2.5.4 Competition from China and
India
2.6 How Changes in Silver Prices
Affect the Market for Silver Inks and Pastes
2.7 Key Points from This Chapter
Chapter Three: Photovoltaic Panels:
Opportunities and Challenges for Silver Inks and Pastes
3.1 Growth in Crystalline Si Helps
Silver Paste Market
3.2 Efforts to Reduce the Amount of
Silver in Panels
3.3 How Efforts to Improve Solar
Cell Efficiency Affect Silver Paste Suppliers
3.3.1 Changes in Printing Methods
3.3.2 New Solar Cell Designs
3.4 Competing PV Technologies a
Potential Threat
3.5 Eight-Year Forecast of Silver
Inks/Pastes for PV– by PV Type and Usage
3.6 Eight-Year Forecast of Silver
Inks/Pastes for PV – by Type of Materials and Type of Printing Process
3.7 Key Points from this Chapter
Chapter Four: Displays and Lighting
as Markets for Silver Inks and Pastes
4.1 Plasma TVs – a Dying Breed
4.2 Opportunities for Silver in
Growing Display Markets
4.2.1 Liquid Crystal Displays
4.2.2 Silver in Touch Displays
4.2.3 What about OLED displays?
4.3 Will OLED Lighting Provide a
New Opportunity for Silver Inks and Pastes?
4.4 Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver
Inks/ Pastes for Displays – by Display Type and Type of Ink/Paste
4.5 Eight-Year Forecast of Silver
Inks/Pastes for Displays – by Type of Printing Process
4.6 Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver
Inks/ Pastes for OLED Lighting – by Type of Ink/Paste
4.7 Eight-Year Forecast of Silver
Inks/Pastes for OLED Lighting – by Type of Printing Process
4.8 Key Points from this Chapter
Chapter Five: Opportunities
for Silver Inks/Pastes in Sensors
5.1 Will the IoT be Good for
Silver?
5.1.1 Printed Silver in Sensors
5.1.2 Opportunities in RFIDs
5.2 RFID and Sensor Antennas:
Eight-Year Forecast by Type of Ink/Paste
5.3 RFID and Sensor Applications:
Eight-Year Forecast by Type of Ink/Paste
5.4 Silver Inks/Pastes for RFID and
Sensors by Type of Printing Process
5.5 Key Points from this Chapter
Chapter Six: Ongoing
Opportunities for Silver Pastes in Thick-Film Electronics
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