Printed and Flexible Sensors 2012-2022: Forecasts, Players, Opportunities

• Publication date: April 2012

The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of printed and flexible sensors will be 22.1% over the next ten years. In the main, printed and flexible sensors are creating new markets using their unique advantages of flexibility, area and functionality. They also offer cost improvements over some conventional sensors, although that is not the main selling point. This report studies the technologies and the current and emerging markets, providing detaile...

The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of printed and flexible sensors will be 22.1% over the next ten years. In the main, printed and flexible sensors are creating new markets using their unique advantages of flexibility, area and functionality. They also offer cost improvements over some conventional sensors, although that is not the main selling point. This report studies the technologies and the current and emerging markets, providing detailed ten year forecasts for biomedical, temperature, gas, strain, pressure, imaging and other types of sensors.

Printed and flexible sensors represent the latest in the development of devices that extend the humanoid's primary sensory abilities, giving specific exploratory insight into the properties we wish to identify, quantify and qualify. It is a technology that is surprisingly under-resourced given the enormous market opportunity and demand. These sensors are rarely standalone devices, and are integral parts of the "New Electronics" revolution, that will enhance our comfort while measuring gases in automobiles, measure our temperatures while detecting toxins on our skins.

Printed and flexible sensors offer distinct advantages and potential advantages over non-printed sensors, such as being lower cost to the point of being disposable, thin, lower and conformal profiled, flexible, large area, and the exciting possibility of creating devices on a variety of substrates each shaped and individually tailored to operate uniquely. They are making complex healthcare examinations faster and cheaper to do, adding intelligence to packaging, toys, industrial processes and much more. In the main, they will create new markets, going where conventional sensors cannot go. This report studies all these opportunities.

This report provides ten year forecasts for the growth of printed and flexible sensors, by sensor type and application. It provides a detailed look at the latest technical work, with company and university profiles, case studies of applications so far, and emerging opportunities. It studies the following types of sensors:

Defence and security
Force
Humidity
Photo/light/imaging
Pressure
Biochemical
Physical
Radio frequency and network sensors
Strain, stress and shear
Tactile
Temperature
Touch

The outcome is a report that identifies and reports trends based on an exhaustive analysis of recent progress in industry and academia as submitted to research journals and as conducted in the highest rated academic, industrial and commercial laboratories worldwide. This is done by the presentation of case studies and profiles highlighting the applications, application methodology and application areas of printed and flexible sensing and sensing solutions. Learn the market demand and state of technical progress and see how you can benefit from this under-addressed opportunity.

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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2. PRINTED SENSORS MARKETS
2.1. Definitions
2.2. Printed and Flexible SensorForecasts 2012-2022
2.2.1. Market Drivers for growth
2.2.2. Biomedical Sensors
2.2.3. Gas Environmental
2.2.4. Temperature Sensors
2.2.5. Force and Pressure
2.2.6. Imaging Sensors
2.2.7. Automotive
2.2.8. Consumer
3. PRINTED PHYSICAL SENSORS
3.1. Printed Force and Pressure Sensors
3.1.1. Technology
3.1.2. Applications
3.2. Players
3.3. Case Studies: Force and Pressure Sensors
3.3.1. Case Study: The Holst Centre: Intelligent Surfaces
3.3.2. Case Study: Sensor Products Inc.: Pressurex® Sensor Films for Solar module production.
3.3.3. Case Study: Stanford University: Transparent Stretchy Skin-like Pressure sensor
4. PRINTED STRAIN SENSORS
4.1. Screen Printed Piezoelectric Sensors
4.1.1. Technology
4.2. Players
4.3. Case Studies: Printed and Flexible Strain Sensors
4.3.1. Case Study: The US National Textile Centre, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
5. TACTILE SENSORS AND TOUCH SCREENS
5.1. Technology
5.2. Players
5.3. Touch Screens
5.4. Players
5.4.1. Case Study: Cambrios ClearOhm film used in smart phone
5.4.2. Case Study: PolyIC: Integrated touch sensors with graphic design
5.4.3. Case Study: Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research
5.4.4. Case Study: Peratech: Printed Electronics at Peratech
6. PRINTED TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY SENSORS
6.1. Technology: Printed and Flexible Temperature Sensors
6.2. Players
6.3. Technology: Printed and Flexible Humidity Sensors
6.3.1. Case Study: PST: Sensors spin-out launched from Cape Town
6.3.2. Case Study: Thinfilm & PST: Printed temperature Sensors with Memory
6.3.3. Case Study: ETH: Woven electronics
6.3.4. Case Study: Soligie: Developing Printed Sensors
7. PRINTED AND FLEXIBLE PHOTO SENSORS
7.1. Technology
7.2. Players
7.2.1. Case Study: STRL: Developing organic image sensors
7.2.2. Case Study: NikkoIA SAS: New organic photo detector company
7.2.3. Case Study: Scientists create imaging device based on the human eye
7.2.4. Case Study CONDUCTIVE COMPOUNDS: Radio opaque screen printable ink
8. PRINTED RADIO FREQUENCY AND NETWORK SENSORS
8.1. Technology
8.1.1. Case Study: RFID cell phone patent for diagnostic applications allowed in Korea
8.1.2. Case Study: Motorola: Printing wide area sensors
9. PRINTED BIOCHEMICAL SENSORS
9.1. Technology
9.2. Inorganic biomedical sensors
9.3. Disposable blocked artery sensors
9.4. Disposable asthma analysis
9.4.1. Screen Printed Optical Resonant Biosensors
9.5. Polymer bioelectronics and biosensors
9.5.1. Case Study: ETH-Zurich Breath sensor detects diabetes
9.5.2. Case Study: Carbon nanotube sensors detect minute levels of oxygen
9.5.3. Case Study: Ultrasensitive electronic sensor array speeds up DNA detection
9.5.4. Case Study: Scientists use print technology to develop biomedical sensors
9.5.5. Case Study: Stretchable electronics technology with standard endocardial balloon
9.5.6. Case Study: Smart fabrics make clever medical clothing
9.5.7. Case Study: UCSD: Intelligent underwear
9.5.8. Aneeve to develop hormone sensors from inkjet printed carbon nanotubes
9.5.9. Case Study Reebok and MC10 announce development collaboration
9.5.10. Case Study: Flexible electronics treating abnormal heart rhythms
9.5.11. Case Study: Carbon nanotubes detect toxins in drinking water
9.5.12. Case Study: Georgetown Gentag and SAIC: Developing glucose sensors
9.5.13. Case Study: Nano-Proprietary Inc: Nano-Biosensor patent
9.5.14. Case Study: SIGMA SPORT: Fabric based sensing - a challenge in physiological monitoring devices
9.5.15. Case Study: BIOIDENT: First printed lab-on-chip system announced
9.5.16. Case Study: Bed sheets monitor heart patients in their own home
10. DEFENCE AND SECURITY SENSORS
10.1.1. Case Study: Georgia Institute of Technology: Printed wireless sensor could detect explosives
10.1.2. Case Study: UC SAN DIEGO: Swimming with sensors
10.1.3. Case Study: UoL IMPERIAL COLLEGE: New security sensor devices made possible by metallic nanostructures
10.1.4. Case Study: US Army with the New Jersey Institute of Technology: Smart paint - science fiction?
10.1.5. Case Study: US ARMY: The future for military sensors may be in tiny solar cells
11. POWERING PRINTED SENSORS: ENERGY HARVESTING
11.1.1. Case Study: Printing Piezo energy harvesters
11.1.2. Case Study: VTT Piezoelectric paint in Finland
12. BIBLOGRAPHY
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