Executive Summary OE-A Roadmap for Organic and Printed Electronics 8th Edition A working group within The Executive Summary is an excerpt of the White Paper “OE-A Roadmap for Organic and Printed Electronics” Copyright © OE-A, a working group within VDMA, Frankfurt, 2020 All rights reserved. Reproduction only with written permission by OE-A and citation of the Roadmap White Paper (ISBN 978-3-8163-0736-5). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - OE-A ROADMAP WHITE PAPER, 8th EDITION 1 About the OE-A Roadmap The OE-A Roadmap is one of the key activities of the OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association). It represents the common perspective of OE-A members on the current state of printed electronics based on the work of more than 250 experts. The OE-A Roadmap also gives short-, medium- and long-term forecasts on where the industry is heading. Roadmapping is an ongoing process within the OE-A. First published more than a decade ago, the OE-A Roadmap has been updated periodically and is now in its eighth edition. The 130-page Roadmap is White Paper organized into the six key industry sectors Electronics and Printed Organic OE-A Roadmap for Organic Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Printing and Printed Electronics and Packaging, Smart Buildings and Internet of Things. 8th Edition Furthermore, it gives insight into recent, short-, medium- and long-term developments of the major application clusters Flexible and OLED Displays, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics, Electronics and Components, Integrated Smart Systems and OLED Lighting. In addition to key industries and applied technologies, a chapter is dedicated to the enabling technologies Functional Materials, Substrate Materials and Printing, Coating and Patterning techniques. Each chapter is led by a renowned expert in the respective A working group within field. The OE-A Roadmap aims to provide information on technology and applications, to support the industry, governmental agencies and scientists in identifying strategies regarding R&D activities and Cover page of the White Paper “OE-A Roadmap for Organic product plans. and Printed Electronics”. Elaborating on major findings of the Roadmap on Organic and Printed Electronics, the OE-A periodically publishes a white paper providing more in-depth insight into the respective applications and technologies. For the first time, the white paper will also look more closely at the six key industry sectors and how printed electronics will be of benefit. Besides showing current technologies and applications enabled by printed electronics, the OE-A experts provide individual Roadmaps for each of the industry sectors, giving short-, medium- and long-term forecasts for product developments. Information on obtaining the full document of the OE-A Roadmap White Paper can be found at https://oe-a.org/roadmap 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - OE-A ROADMAP WHITE PAPER, 8th EDITION Executive Summary Organic and printed electronics is based on the combination of new materials and cost-effective, large-area production processes to enable new applications which are not possible to create with (only) conventional electronics. A key advantage of organic and printed electronics is the ability to make thin, lightweight, flexible, robust and environmentally friendl y electronic products. One of the key activities of the OE-A since its inception has been the regular updating of the Roadmap for this young but growing industry. This document summarizes the major findings of the OE-A’s eighth edition of the Organic and Printed Electronics Roadmap based on work done since the seventh edition of the OE-A Roadmap was completed in 2017. In 2017 we already found that the growth in organic and printed electronics (OPE) industry had continued and that there were already applications (organic light emitting diodes i.e. OLED displays, for example) where it was already a strong player with signs pointing to further growth. This growth has been realized, with foldable displays and even rollable OLED TVs entering the market. Other applications, such as organic photovoltaics (OPV) or OLED lighting, are still relatively niche markets, as stated in the last Roadmap, but with signs of increased growth and more commercial products in the market. The number of wearable products including OPE is continuing to grow. Touch sensitive surfaces based on OPE are becoming more and more prevalent, e.g. in automobiles seat heaters are being printed instead of being made from wire coils. Sales of products including OPE were over 35 billion US$ in 2019, with the market expected to grow to over 74 billion US$ by 20301. The largest share of the market continues to go to OLED displays, where the market was over 26 billion US$ in 2018 and expected to grow to over 52 billion US$ by 20232, though other fields are also growing1. Printed primary batteries and electroluminescent (EL) displays continue to have stable sales. Printed transparent conductive films have reached increased utilization in interactive display products, e.g. in automobiles and home appliances, and there has been progress in textile-based and skin wearable flexible devices. The growth of interest in and establishment of OPE in important industrial sectors, such as auto- motive, consumer electronics, health care/wellbeing, smart buildings, printing and packaging and the Internet of Things, which was observed as a nascent phenomenon in the 7th edition, has continued. As a result, we have dedicated an entire chapter to the innovative products that are appearing in these sectors and those that are expected to appear in the coming years. These industry sectors implement solutions from a wide range of technology applications; for example in the automotive sector products such as OLED taillights and curved interactive surfaces are appearing, and the use of sensors is increasing. In the figure below we summarize a number of the OPE solutions finding their way into major industry sectors. Some of the solutions are already commercial on a significant scale, while others are still concept prototypes. 1 https://www.idtechex.com/de/research-report/printed-organic-and-flexible-electronics-2020-2030- forecasts-technologies-markets/687 2 https://www.oled-info.com/dscc-amoled-revenues-reach-over-52-billion-2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - OE-A ROADMAP WHITE PAPER, 8th EDITION 3 Organic and Printed Electronics Solutions in Important Industry Sectors Automotive OLED lighting for rear lights and interior human-centric lighting; flexible and OLED displays for side mirror replacement and HMI; sensors for seat occupancy and hands-on detection; Seamless integration of touch sensors for HMI; In-mold electronics for new interior design; Printed heating foils for electric vehicles Consumer Foldable & flexible displays for smart phones / tablets / Electronics wearables; Curved touch surfaces with sensing & signage for white goods; Smart wearables and textiles; OLED lighting; Rollable TV Healthcare Smart medical packages for therapy monitoring; Patches for therapy and vital parameter monitoring; Sensors for On- and Off-body biomarker diagnosis; OLEDs for light therapy; Smart wound treatment and bandages Printing & Low-cost & low-power displays for price labels; Smart labels for Packaging brand protection and cross-media interaction; smart packaging with autonomous sensors; printed and hybrid NFC & RFID; Lighting Smart Sensors for material monitoring, energy management (climate, Buildings smart windows) and wellbeing (humidity, gas); energy autonomous sensors; Heating elements; BIOPV; OLED lighting; Internet of Optimized maintenance of buildings, machinery parts and in the Things mobility sector by structural health monitoring; energy autonomous devices; smart labels for logistics and consumer protection; Environmental monitoring; Organic and Printed Electronics solutions in important industry sectors. The trend from “technology push” to “market pull” defined by the needs of the end users has continued since the last Roadmap, and we document this in the chapter on important industry sectors. The OPE industry is not trying to put organic and printed electronics “everywhere” but is effectively implementing into products in use cases for which it offers specific advantages in performance, cost or form factor over conventional solutions. The consensus appears to be growing that many OPE applications from now to the mid-term future will involve hybrid system integration, with a “brain” based on silicon electronics and other parts of the system enabled by printing. 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - OE-A ROADMAP WHITE PAPER, 8th EDITION The current edition of the OE-A Roadmap continues the work started in previous versions and reports on the growth in the organic and printed electronics market in a wide range of applications. It also reports on technical progress that has been made in the field since the seventh edition of the Roadmap. In addition to our new analysis of OPE in important industry sectors, we continue to look at the development of the market in five key application clusters: • Flexible and OLED Displays, where curved OLED displays have reached the market and conformable LCD displays are being integrated into prototype automobiles, and the first devices with foldable displays are being brought to market • Organic Photovoltaics (OPV), where stability has improved strongly and more and more flexible modules are now available on the open market • Electronics and Components (printed memory and batteries, active components and passive components), where active matrix backplanes