Summary:
Carbon nanotubes offer the electronics industry properties that few materials platforms could ever hope to match. These include ultra-fast switching speeds, high conductivity for interconnection, excellent thermal properties and a high degree of compatibility with the dominant CMOS paradigm. Although carbon nanotube electronics has been speculated about for well over a decade, the first products are now about to reach the market in the form of non-volatile memory, field emission displays and sensors, with serious commercial work being done on using carbon nanotubes in thermal management and interconnects.
But while nanotube electronics promises interesting new products in a number of different areas, these products will all be facing stiff competition. Field emission displays, for example, will compete with displays using LCDs, LEDs, plasma and CRTs. A similar story can be told for nanotube-based sensors, memory and interconnects. It therefore becomes vitally important to determine what the real addressable markets for nanotube electronics products are. To provide clients with guidance on where the most attractive opportunities lie, NanoMarkets is releasing this new report, which combines a technology assessment, eight-year market forecast and appraisal of the market strategies of leading firms active in the emerging carbon nanotube electronics business.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
- E.1 Introduction
- E.2 Influential Companies
- E.3 Summary of Forecasts
Chapter One : Introduction
- 1.1 Background to Report
- 1.2 Objectives of Report
- 1.3 Scope of Report
- 1.4 Methodology of Report
- 1.5 Plan of Report
Chapter Two : Technology Assessment of Carbon Nanotube Electronics
- 2.1 Overview of Carbon Nanotube Electronics Technology
- 2.2 Conductivity, Semiconductivity and Processing Speed
- 2.3 Field Emission Devices
- 2.4 Thermal Properties
- 2.5 Compatibility with CMOS
- 2.6 Manufacturing Issues
- 2.6.1 Batch Consistency
- 2.6.2 Production Technology for Nanotube Electronics
- 2.7 Emerging Directions for Nanotube Electronics
- 2.8 Alternative Technology Platforms
- 2.8.1 Nanotubes and Nanowires
- 2.8.2 Non-Carbon Nanotubes
- 2.8.3 Other Nanoelectronics Programs
Chapter Three : New Products, Addressable Markets and Eight-Year Forecasts
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Forecasting Methodology
- 3.2.1 Size of Addressable Markets
- 3.3 Transistors, Logic and Processors
- 3.3.1 Current and Future Products
- 3.3.2 Addressable Markets and Competing Products
- 3.3.3 Forecasts
- 3.4 Memory
- 3.4.1 Current and Future Products
- 3.4.2 Addressable Markets and Competing Products
- 3.4.3 Forecasts
- 3.5 Interconnects
- 3.5.1 Addressable Markets and Current Offerings
- 3.5.2 Forecasts
- 3.6 Thermal Management
- 3.6.1 Addressable Markets and Current Offerings
- 3.6.2 Forecasts
- 3.7 Sensors
- 3.7.1 Addressable Markets
- 3.7.2 Current and Future Products
- 3.7.3 Forecasts
- 3.8 Displays
- 3.8.1 Addressable Markets and Competing Products
- 3.8.2 Current and Future Products
- 3.8.3 Forecasts of Display Market
- 3.9 Nanotubes and Packaging
Chapter Four : Leading Firms with Nanotube Electronics Programs and Products
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Eikos (www.eikos.com)
- 4.3 Fujitsu (www.Fujitsu.com)
- 4.4 General Electric (www.ge.com)
- 4.5 IBM (www.ibm.com)
- 4.6 Infineon (www.infineon.com)
- 4.7 Intel (www.intel.com)
- 4.8 Motorola (www.motorola.com)
- 4.9 Nanomix (www.nano.com)
- 4.10 Nano-Proprietary/Applied Nanotech (www.nano-proprietary.com)
- 4.11 Nantero (www.nantero.com)
- 4.12 NEC (www.nec.com)
- 4.13 Samsung (www.samsung.com)
- 4.14 Xintek (www.xintek.com)
- 4.15 Other Firms and Organizations Influencing Carbon Nanotube Electronics
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used In This Report
List of Exhibits
- Exhibit E-1 Summary of Carbon Nanotube Electronics Opportunities
- Exhibit E-2 Selected Firms Involved with CNT Electronics Exhbit E-3 Eight-Year Forecasts for CNT-Based Nanoelectronics: By Product Type ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 1-1 Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
- Exhibit 2-1 Non-Display Applications for CNT-based FEDs
- Exhibit 2-2 CNT Electronics vs. Other Nanoelectronics Programs
- Exhibit 3-1 Likely Evolution of CNT Electronics
- Exhibit 3-2 Evolution of Nanotube Electronics
- Exhibit 3-3 Eight-Year Forecasts for CNT-Based Processors and Logic ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 3-4 Potential Markets for CNT Memories
- Exhibit 3-5 Differentiating Benefits of CNT Memory Solutions by Applications Sector
- Exhibit 3-6 Eight-Year Forecasts for CNT-Based Memory ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 3-7 Eight-Year Forecasts for CNT-Based Interconnects ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 3-8 Eight-Year Forecasts for CNT-Based Thermal Management ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 3-9 Emerging Markets for CNT-based Gas/Liquid Chemical Sensors
- Exhibit 3-10 Eight-Year Forecasts for CNT-Based Sensors ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 3-11 FEDs vs. Other Flat Screen Television Technologies
- Exhibit 3-12 Eight-Year Forecasts of CNT Displays ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-1 Summary of Motorola NED Characteristics
- Exhibit 4-2 Applied Nanotechs Nanosensor Products
