E-Paper Displays: Markets, Forecasts, Technologies 2010-2020

Published by: IDTechEx Ltd

Published: Sep. 1, 2009 - 132 Pages

Table of Contents

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

2. INTRODUCTION

2.1. Scope

2.2. How e-paper displays are being applied

2.3. Flexible is a big market

2.4. Color, switching speed

2.5. E-Books

2.6. Cellphones, music players

2.7. Smart card displays

2.8. Electronic apparel

2.9. Posters/signage

2.9.1. Clear Channel

2.10. Smart packaging/brand enhancement

2.10.2. Duracell

2.10.3. Cloetta bisquit/ACREO winking sign

2.10.4. VTT Technology beer package game

2.11. E-paper displays have the largest market share for all flexible displays

3. ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS

3.1. E Ink

3.1.1. Technology

3.1.2. Products

3.2. Sipix: Microcup® electrophoretic display

3.2.1. Technology

3.2.2. AUO and Sipix

3.3. Bridgestone: Quick Response Liquid Powder Display™

4. ELECTROWETTING DISPLAYS

4.2. Liquavista

4.2.1. Technology

4.3. ITRI, Taiwan and PVI, Taiwan

4.4. adt, Germany

5. OTHER BISTABLE DISPLAYS

5.1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

5.2. Kent Displays

5.3. TRED

5.3.1. Technology

5.4. Nemoptic

5.4.1. Technology

5.5. Products

6. ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAYS

6.2. Ntera

6.3. Acreo

6.3.1. Electrochemical displays on paper

6.4. Aveso

6.5. Ajjer

7. DISPLAY MAKERS

7.1. Prime View International (PVI)

7.1.1. Technology

7.1.2. Flexible e-paper displays using EPLaR

7.2. Plastic Logic

7.3. LG

7.4. i-Rex

7.5. Samsung

7.6. Seiko Epson

7.7. NEC

7.8. Polymer Vision

7.8.2. Technology

7.8.3. What went wrong

8. OTHER RELATED FLEXIBLE DISPLAY COMPONENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

8.1. Electrofluidic Displays: Gamma-Dynamics

8.2. Thermochromic displays

8.3. Optical shutter film: Citala, USA

8.4. Adhesives, Delo Germany

9. E-READERS

9.1. Content availability

9.2. Amazon Kindle and Kindle 2

9.2.2. Amazon Kindle DX

9.2.3. FUJITSU FLEPia

9.3. Iliad & Digital Reader

9.4. SONY Readers

9.5. Brother Industries, Japan

9.6. TXTR

9.7. Hanvon

10. FORECASTS

10.1. Forecasts by technology

10.1.1. Forecasts for color versus non color 2009-2020

10.1.2. Electrophoretic displays market forecasts 2009-2020

10.1.3. Electrochromic displays market forecasts 2009-2020

10.1.4. Forecasts by application

10.2. Costing

APPENDIX 1: LIST OF E READERS, PAST AND PRESENT

Tables Page

Table 1.1 Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020

Table 1.2 Market forecasts by application, 2009-2020

Table 2.1 Main factors driving the rapid growth of electronic smart packaging

Table 10.1 Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020

Table 10.2 Market Forecasts for electronic paper and the market share for color electronic paper, 2009-2020

Table 10.3 Electrophoretic displays market forecasts 2009-2020

Table 10.4 Electrochromic displays market forecasts 2009-2020

Table 10.5 Market forecasts by application, 2009-2020

Figures Page

Fig. 1.1 Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020

Fig. 1.2 Market forecasts by application, 2009-2019

Fig. 2.1 Printed Electronics Applications

Fig. 2.2 Flexible devices offer advantages in terms of consumer satisfaction

Fig. 2.3 Samsung Alias™ 2

Fig. 2.4 Reprogrammable electrophoretic decoration on Hitachi mobile phones only needs power when being changed

Fig. 2.5 T-equaliser animated t-shirt

Fig. 2.6 An example of the display on a billboard picture in use in London

Fig. 2.7 Duracell batteries/Avery Dennison tester

Fig. 2.8 Cloetta

Fig. 2.9 VTT Technology beer package game

Fig. 3.1 Electronic ink microcapsules

Fig. 3.2 EPD pixel appearance

Fig. 3.3 Retail Shelf Edge Labels from UPM

Fig. 3.4 Secondary display on a cell phone

Fig. 3.5 Samsung Alias™ 2

Fig. 3.6 SEIKO E-Ink watch

Fig. 3.7 Lexar portable USB flash drive

Fig. 3.8 World's first display on a magazine cover

Fig. 3.9 Microcup® Structure

Fig. 3.10 Sipix Roll-to-Roll micro embossing process

Fig. 3.11 Embosser mold and embossed microcups

Fig. 3.12 Structure of Sipix e-paper

Fig. 3.13 Electrophoretic display on a commercially sold financial card

Fig. 3.14 SD card from A Data with a Sipix display

Fig. 3.15 Sipix Clock

Fig. 3.16 Schematic of the features of Electronic Liquid Powder™

Fig. 3.17 Bridgestone e-paper price tag

Fig. 3.18 Bridgestone fully bendable electronic paper

Fig. 3.19 Relationship between radius of curvature and reflectivity in the states of black and white in flexible QR-ELP™

Fig. 3.20 Roll to roll processing steps for Bridgestone’s e-paper display

Fig. 3.21 Flexible Full Color QR-LPD

Fig. 4.1 Example of a droplet contracting and relaxing

Fig. 4.2 Water droplets on hydrophobic surface (a) without and (b) with voltage applied

Fig. 4.3 Electrowetting display principle

Fig. 4.4 Comparison of power consumption for a variety of video displays

Fig. 4.5 The concept of the “future of electronic paper” according to Liquavista

Fig. 4.6 Excellent viewing angles in TFT backplanes and backlights

Fig. 4.7 Flow chart of the manufacture process

Fig. 4.8 adt electrowetting displays

Fig. 4.9 EnOcean wireless switch

Fig. 5.1 Color LCD by photo alignment

Fig. 5.2 Color printable flexible LCD

Fig. 5.3 KENT Displays’ Reflex™ LCD

Fig. 5.4 TRED's EMD² technology

Fig. 5.5 Principle of operation for Nemoptic's BiNem® technology

Fig. 5.6 A4 e-paper display

Fig. 6.1 Electrochromic display on a Valentine’s card sold by Marks and Spencer in the UK in 2004 and electrochromic display with drive circuits in a laminate for smart cards..

Fig. 6.2 Ntera Display

Fig. 6.3 The dollhouse. When energy is added to the system the color of the wallpaper changes and a picture appears on the wall

Fig. 6.4 Two state electrolytic display on paper

Fig. 6.5 Seven segment display printed with bi-stable inks

Fig. 6.6 Aveso electrochromic display

Fig. 7.1 Glass e-book backplane

Fig. 7.2 Field shielded pixels

Fig. 7.3 TFT design

Fig. 7.4 Glass e-Book module making

Fig. 7.5 THE EPLaR process

Fig. 7.6 TFT DC stability

Fig. 7.7 Mobilities on glass, EPLaR before release & EPLaR after release

Fig. 7.8 9.7’’ and 6’’ flexible e-paper displays by PVI

Fig. 7.9 Photograph of a 9.7" EPLaR display

Fig. 7.10 The Plastic Logic e-reader

Fig. 7.11 A4 size Flexible Color e-paper

Fig. 7.12 Cross section of LG’s e-paper display

Fig. 7.13 Seiko Epson e-reader

Fig. 7.14 A3 and A4 e-paper displays

Fig. 7.15 The Readius® by Polymer Vision

Fig. 7.16 A Polymer Vision display

Fig. 7.17 Display Processing Steps

Fig. 8.1 Comparison of electrophoretic/electrofluidic display performance in color and grayscale

Fig. 8.2 Duracell battery tester

Fig. 8.3 Interactive game on a beer package by VTT Technologies in Finland

Fig. 8.4 Edge encapsulation of an electrophoretic display with adhesive (blue). The DELO adhesive can be cured through the UV-blocked barrier layer (glass, PET, PEN, etc.) by means of visible light.

Fig. 8.5 Selection of different development products

Fig. 8.6 Example for the flexibility of a cured adhesive film with a thickness of 150μm (no substrate, just adhesive).

Fig. 9.1 Kindle and Kindle 2

Fig. 9.2 Kindle DX

Fig. 9.3 Effect of 16 level grayscale and smoothing algorithm on text display

Fig. 9.4 The Fujitsu FLEPia

Fig. 9.5 Digital Reader and Iliad by iRex Technologies

Fig. 9.6 The device uses an ink display and incorporates a touch screen

Fig. 9.7 The SONY LIBRIé

Fig. 9.8 Brother Industries large area e-reader

Fig. 9.9 The txtr reader is based on E-Ink technology

Fig. 9.10 Hanvon Technology claims the world's first 5" Electronic Book series,

Fig. 10.1 Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020

Fig. 10.2 Market Forecasts for electronic paper and the market share for full color electronic paper, 2009-2020

Fig. 10.3 Market forecasts by application, 2009-2020

Fig. 10.4 Component cost breakdown for the Amazon Kindle 2 109

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