There is a wide variety of printed large area flexible electronic devices and at the same time a number of different visions and estimates for this new emerging industry and market. But as every new industry or technology, printed electronics has to overcome technology red brick walls, survive the valley of death for the start-ups and spin offs and be competitive enough against existing technologies, like silicon technologies.The talk wants to give a broad picture on these new markets and describes the potential market outlook based on the Organic Electronic Association roadmap. Out of the five markets defined by the OE-A the author describes two markets in detail, the market for OPV and flexible display.Then the talk tries to give a definition of common characteristics for printed electronics and the potential of not only single printed devices, but for integrated products which can consist of only printed devices or a mix of printed and silicone devices, also described now in literature as hybrid devices.
T. Kolbusch, K.-P. Crone, "Production technologies for large area flexible electronics" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP30), 2014, pp 444 - 446, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2014.30.1.art00106_1