Flexible Display Technology Trend and Market Forecast (2008~2020)

Flexible Display Technology Trend and Market Forecast (2008~2020) published by DisplayBank in June, 2010. This report price starts from US $ 7500.

Introduction

Abstract

Flexible Display Market to Reach $30B in 2020

In today' s market, the fast-growing information technology has brought about an era where customers are provided with information easily whenever and wherever they want. Consumers are drawn to mobile phones with easy mobility and portability.

Given this trend, there is an increasingly spotlighted demand for thinner and lighter display devices to represent the ubiquitous era; hence, the need for a flexible display which is rugged and flexible, foldable, even bendable like paper, design-changeable, able to be rolled up, and non-fragile even when it is dropped, has become apparent.

Every nations and companies fully conduct flexible display related R&D activities. LG Display plans to introduce an e-Reader which employs a flexible metal foil substrate-based e-paper technology in 2H' 10.

The overall flexible display market is expected to sharply grow from about $34M in 2010 to $2.4B in 2015 and to $30B in 2020. Of this, the conventional market replacement market is predicted to grow to about $1.11B in 2015 and to about $11.4B in 2020, whereas the new market is expected to sharply grow to about $1.28B in 2015 and to about $18.4B in 2020.

The focus application of flexible display is predicted to be the e-paper technology-based e-Book and advertisement board until 2011. Thereafter, a small and medium alternative application focused on mobile phone is expected to lead the market.

In order to commercialize such flexible display, accomplishments in various R&D fields including display device, backplane, substrate, material, process technology, and manufacturing equipment must be made.

Therefore, Displaybank discusses the flexible display industry trend as well as related maker trend and technology issue to forecast the future flexible display market.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Overview

• 1.1. Research Background
• 1.2. Research Methodology

Chapter 2. Flexible Display Overview

• 2.1. Denifition of Flexible Display
• 2.2. Flexible Display Application
• 2.3. Flexible Display Realization Technology

Chapter 3. Flexible Display Substrate Technology Key Issues

• 3.1. Plastic Substrate
  • 3.1.1. Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)
  • 3.1.2. Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN)
  • 3.1.3. Polycarbonate (PC)
  • 3.1.4. Polyether Sulfone (PES)
  • 3.1.5. Polyimide (PI)
  • 3.1.6. Acrylite
  • 3.1.7. Cyclic Olefin Copolymers (COC)
  • 3.1.8. FRP
• 3.2. Metal Foil Substrate
• 3.3. Thin Film Glass Substrate
• 3.4. Property Requirement of Flexible Display
  • 3.4.1. Thermal Stability
  • 3.4.2. Thermal Expansion Coefficient (CTE)
  • 3.4.3. Gas Barrier Property
  • 3.4.4. Flexibility and Durability
  • 3.4.5. Optical Penetration Rate
• 3.5. Transfer Technology
  • 3.5.1. EPLaR Process (Philips)
  • 3.5.2. Etching Stopper Process (Sony)
  • 3.5.3. SUFTLA Process (Seiko-Epson)
• 3.6. Key Issue of Flexible Display Substrate Technology

Chapter 4. Flexible Display TFT Technology and Key Issues

• 4.1. TFT Structure
  • 4.1.1.General Structure of TFT
  • 4.1.2. Various Approaches to New TFT Structure
• 4.2. TFT Operation Principle
• 4.3. TFT Requirement
  • 4.3.1. TFT Property
  • 4.3.2. Charge Mobility
  • 4.3.3. On/Off ratio
  • 4.3.4. Threshold Voltage
  • 4.3.5. Subthreshold Swing
  • 4.3.6. Contact Resistance
• 4.4. Inorganic TFT
  • 4.4.1. a-Si (Amorphous Silicon) TFT
  • 4.4.2. LTPS (Low Temperature Poly Silicon) TFT
  • 4.4.3. Oxide TFT
• 4.5. Organic TFT (OTFT)
  • 4.5.1. OTFT Technology
  • 4.5.2. OTFT Key Issue

Chapter 5. Flexible Display Mode Technology and Key Issues

• 5.1. E-Paper Technology
  • 5.1.1. Electrochromic Display
  • 5.1.2. Electrowetting Display
  • 5.1.3. Electrophoretic Display
  • 5.1.4. Toner display
  • 5.1.5. LCD Display
• 5.2. Liquid Crystal Display Technology
• 5.3 Organic Light-Emitting Diode Display Technology
• 5.4. Flexible Display Key Issues
  • 5.4.1. Flexible Display Substrate Technology
  • 5.4.2. Protective Film Technology
  • 5.4.3. TFT Manufacturing Technology on Plastic Substrate
  • 5.4.4. Printing Process Technology
  • 5.4.5. Roll-to-roll Process Technology

Chapter 6. Flexible Display Trend by Maker

• 6.1. Korea
  • 6.1-1. LG Display
  • 6.1-2. Samsung Electronics
  • 6.1-3. Samsung Mobile Display (SMD)
  • 6.1-4. i-Component
• 6.2. Japan
  • 6.2.1. Sharp
  • 6.2.2. Toshiba
  • 6.2.3. Pioneer
  • 6.2.4. Seiko-Epson
  • 6.2.5. Hitachi
  • 6.2.6. Fujitsu
  • 6.2.7. Sony
  • 6.2.8. Toppan Printing
  • 6.2.9. Bridgestone
  • 6.2.10. Sumitomo Bakelite
• 6.3. U.S. and Others
  • 6.3.1. E-ink
  • 6.3.2. Sipix
  • 6.3.3. Vitex Systems
  • 6.3.4. UDC
  • 6.3.5. Kent Display
  • 6.3.6. Polymer Vision
  • 6.3.7. Plastic Logic
  • 6.3.8. PVI
  • 6.3.9. Hearst

Chapter 7. Flexible Display Market Forecast

• 7.1. Basis of Flexible Display Demand Forecast
• 7.2. Flexible Display Technology and Product Roadmap
  • 7.2.1. Flexible Display Technology and Product Roadmap in Conventional Application Replacment Market
  • 7.2.2. Flexible Display Technology and Product Roadmap in New Application Market
• 7.3. Flexible Display Market Forecast in Conventional Application Replacement Market
  • 7.3.1. Study on New Product Replacement Speed in Conventional Market
  • 7.3.2. Mid to Long-term Demand Forecast of Conventional Application Display
  • 7.3.3. Flexible Display Market Forecast in Conventional Application Replacement Market
• 7.4. Flexible Display Market Forecast in New Application Market
  • 7.4.1. Flexible Display Market Forecast in New Application Market
• 7.5. Overall Flexible Display Market Forecast

8. Index

• 8.1. Table
• 8.2. Figure

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