Flexible Glass Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Table of Contents

Flexible Glass Executive Summary

Flexible Glass Executive Summary ES-1

Flexible Glass Market Driving Forces ES-1

Flexible Glass as Substrates for Nanotechnology Deposition ES-3

Flexible Glass Used In A New Way Of Generating Solar Power ES-4

Lithium-ion and Advanced Lithium Battery Substrate Market Forecasts ES-7

Flexible Glass Market Description And Market Dynamics

1. Flexible Glass Market Description and Dynamics 1-1

1.1 Ultra Thin Flexible Glass Substrates 1-1

1.1.1 Nanotechnology Depends On Substrates 1-1

1.1.2 OLED Technology Ultra Thin Flexible Glass Substrates 1-2

1.1.3 Wearable Displays 1-3

1.2 Flexible Glass Replaces Polymer Foils 1-3

1.3 Solar Panels Built on Flexible Glass For Building Facades 1-3

1.3.1 Glass As A Building Material 1-4

1.3.2 Focus on Energy Efficiency with Glass 1-6

1.3.3 Characteristics Of A Thin Film Solar Cell 1-6

1.4 Vacuum Coating Technologies 1-9

Flexible Glass Market Shares And Market Forecasts

Flexible Glass Market Shares and Market Forecasts 2-1

2.1 Flexible Glass Market Driving Forces 2-1

2.1.1 Flexible Glass as Substrates for Nanotechnology Deposition 2-3

2.2 Flexible Glass Used In A New Way Of Generating Solar Power 2-4

2.2.1 Flexible Glass Processes Protect Flexible Solar

Power Shingles 2-9

2.2.2 Corning 2-11

2.2.3 Asahi Glass 2-12

2.3 Lithium-ion and Advanced Lithium Battery

Substrate Market Forecasts 2-13

2.4 Flexible Glass for Imprint Molding Processes 2-17

2.4.1 Passive Optics and LED Imprints 2-17

2.4.2 LED Component Imprinting 2-18

2.5 HDD Patterned Media 2-20

2.6 Imprint For Biological Applications 2-21

2.7 Imprint For Integrated Circuits 2-21

2.8 Glass Production Regional Analysis 2-22

Flexible Glass Application Middleware Product Description

3. Flexible Glass Product Description 3-1

3.1 Flexible Glass as Substrates 3-1

3.1.1 Corning 3-1

3.1.2 Corning 0211 Thin, Lightweight, Flexible Glass 3-1

3.2 Asahi Glass 3-8

3.2.1 Asahi Glass Flexible Solar Cell 3-8

3.2.2 Asahi Glass ETFE Film 3-9

3.2.3 Asahi Glass Flexible Solar Cells 3-12

3.2.4 Asahi Glass Textured Surface Film Traps Light,

Enables Highly Efficient Solar Cell 3-13

3.3 DuPont™ Substrate Materials: Robust Processing

Thin Film Solar Performance 3-16

3.3.1 DuPont™ Kapton® Polyimide Films 3-16

3.3.2 DuPont Teflon® FEP 3-18

3.3.3 DuPont Tefzel® ETFE 3-19

3.4 Vitex Systems 3-20

3.4.1 Vitex Systems Barix™ Barrier Film (BBF) 3-20

3.4.2 Vitex Processes Protect Flexible Solar Power Shingles 3-27

3.5 Solyndra 3-28

3.6 Applied Quantum Technology 3-31

3.7 Wurth 3-32

3.7.1 Würth Elektronik Research Efficient Solar Modules 3-33

3.8 Honda Solar 3-34

3.9 Frontgate 3-34

3.9.1 Frontgate Memory Flex Polarized Unisex Reader Sunglasses 3-35

3.10 Merck KGaA Displays, Lighting And Photovoltaics 3-36

3.10.1 Merck OLED Tiles 3-37

3.10.2 Micros Microscopes Flexible Glass Stage 3-38

3.11 Cixi Kaixuan Glass Fiber Facturein 3-39

3.11.1 Cixi Kaixuan Nano-Scale Glass Coating 3-40

3.12 Qualcomm Full Color, Low Power, Fast And Versatile

Mirasol Display Technology 3-40

Flexible Glass Technology

4. Flexible Glass Technology 4-1

4.1 Thin Film Poly-Si Solar Cells With A Thickness Of Less

Than 5 Pm On A Glass Substrate 4-1

4.2 Innovative LC Mixtures And Advanced LC Materials 4-2

4.2.1 Liquid Glass Invented in Turkey 4-4

4.2.2 Liquid Glass Coating Is Breathable 4-5

4.2.3 Liquid Glass Spray 4-5

4.3 Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) 4-6

4.3.1 Passive Optics and LEDs 4-7

4.3.2 LEDs Patterned With Photonic Crystals 4-7

4.4 HDD Patterned Media Disk Imprint Tools 4-8

4.5 Biological Imprint Applications 4-9

4.6 Integrated Circuits Bowing The Mold 4-10

4.7 Flexible Backplanes For E-Paper Displays 4-10

4.8 Thin-Film Rechargeable Lithium Batteries 4-11

4.9 Renewable Energy Flexible Solar Cell Study 4-12

4.9.1 Gettering in Large-Grained Thin Polycrystalline

Silicon Films on Glass Substrate 4-12

4.10 Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition 4-13

4.11 Fluorinated Materials for Energy Conversion 4-14

4.12 ETFE Film 4-14

4.13 Worldwide Demand For Electricity 4-15

4.14 Silicon Based Photovoltaic Systems 4-16

4.15 Thin Film Photovoltaic Systems 4-17

4.15.1 Commercial Rooftops for Solar Energy 4-18

4.15.2 Solar Energy Market Overview 4-21

4.15.3 Levelized Cost of Electricity 4-22

4.15.4 Installed Solar Costs 4-23

4.15.5 Lifetime Solar Costs 4-23

4.15.6 Solar Panel Lifetime Electricity Output 4-23

Flexible Glass Company Profiles

5. Flexible Glass Company Profiles 5-1

5.1 Applied Materials 5-1

5.1.1 Applied Materials Segment Analysis 5-2

5.1.2 Applied Materials Silicon Segment 5-2

5.1.3 Applied Three-Dimensional (3D) ICs 5-5

5.1.4 Applied Materials Deposition 5-6

5.1.5 Applied Materials Atomic Layer Deposition 5-6

5.1.6 Applied Materials Chemical Vapor Deposition 5-7

5.1.7 Applied Materials Applied Producer CVD Platform 5-7

5.1.8 Applied Materials Low k Dielectric Films — 5-8

5.1.9 Applied Materials Lithography-Enabling Solutions 5-8

5.1.10 Applied Materials Gap Fill Films — 5-9

5.1.11 Applied Materials Strain Engineering Solutions 5-9

5.1.12 Applied Materials Epitaxial Deposition 5-10

5.1.13 Applied Materials Polysilicon Deposition — 5-10

5.1.14 Applied Materials Tungsten Deposition — 5-11

5.1.15 Applied Materials Physical Vapor Deposition 5-11

5.1.16 Applied Materials Etch 5-12

5.1.17 Applied Materials Rapid Thermal Processing 5-14

5.1.18 Applied Materials Chemical Mechanical Planarization 5-15

5.1.19 Applied Materials Metrology and Wafer Inspection 5-15

5.1.20 Applied Materials Critical Dimension and Defect

Review Scanning Electron Microscopes (CD-SEMs and DR-SEMs) 5-16

5.1.21 Applied Materials Wafer Inspection 5-17

5.1.22 Applied Materials Mask Making 5-18

5.1.23 Applied Materials Display Segment 5-18

5.1.24 Applied Global Services Segment 5-19

5.1.25 Applied Materials Fab Services — 5-19

5.1.26 Applied Films Vacuum Coating Technologies 5-20

5.1.27 Applied Materials Energy and Environmental

Solutions Segment 5-20

5.2 Asahi Glass Co Ltd 5-25

5.2.1 Asahi Glass Fuel Cell 5-28

5.2.2 Asahi Glass Fuel Cells Close To Practical Use 5-29

5.2.3 Asahi Glass Fuel Cells In Daily Life In 2010 5-30

5.2.4 Asahi Glass Chemicals Business as Core Business to the

AGC Group 5-30

5.2.5 Asahi Glass ETFE Film With High Transparency

And Flexibility 5-34

5.2.6 AGC Asahi GlassRevenue 5-34

5.2.7 Asahi Glass Revenue 5-41

5.3 Battelle 5-46

5.4 China Glass Network 5-46

5.5 Corning 5-48

5.5.1 Corning Display Technologies Segment 5-48

5.5.2 Corning Revenue 5-50

5.5.3 Corning Display Technologies Segment 5-54

5.5.4 Corning Telecommunications Segment 5-54

5.5.5 Corning Environmental Technologies Segment 5-55

5.5.6 Corning Specialty Materials Segment 5-56

5.5.7 Corning Life Sciences Segment 5-56

5.6 Directed Vapor Technology 5-57

5.6.1 Directed Vapor Deposition Next Generation

Coating Technology 5-57

5.7 du Pont 5-59

5.7.1 DuPont 5-59

5.7.2 DuPont™ Kapton® 5-62

5.7.3 DuPont™ Kapton® Polyimide Films 5-62

5.7.4 DuPont Teonex 5-65

5.8 EMD Chemicals for LCDs & Emerging Technologies. 5-66

5.8.1 Customer-Specific Liquid Crystal Mixtures From EMD 5-66

5.8.2 EMD 5-67

5.9 Hangzhou Needindex Info-Tech Co. 5-68

5.10 Merck Chemicals 5-69

5.10.1 Merck KGaA 5-69

5.10.2 Merck KGaA Portfolio For Displays,

Lighting And Photovoltaics 5-70

5.11 New York University 5-71

5.12 Nippon Sheet Glass Co Ltd c 5-71

5.12.1 Pilkington North America 5-73

5.12.2 Pilkington in North America 5-74

5.13 Nippon Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass 5-77

5.14 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 5-78

5.15 Photonics / Hoya Candeo Optronics 5-78

5.16 Schott 5-81

5.16.1 Schott Electronic Packaging Gmbh 5-86

5.16.2 Schott Ag Flat Glass 5-88

5.17 Solyndra 5-90

5.18 Vacuum Coating Technologies 5-92

5.19 Vitex Systems 5-93

5.20 Vitex Systems 5-96

5.21 Flexible Glass Suppliers 5-98

5.22 Handai tech co.,ltd 5-98

5.23 Shenzhen Luobo Yurun Investment Development Co.,Ltd 5-99

5.24 Qingdao Hengda Glass Technology Co,.Ltd 5-99

5.25 Anhui Yinrui Glass Machinery Co., Ltd. 5-100

5.26 Fu Yang DEMAN Machine Co., Ltd. 5-100

5.27 Jinan Zhaoyang Machine Co., Ltd. 5-100

5.28 ZongHeng Trading Co.,Ltd 5-101

5.29 Qingdao Blue Crystal Glass Co., Ltd 5-101

5.30 Zhengzhou Yuke Glass Technology Co.,Ltd 5-102

5.31 Tianjin JingYang Glass Co., Ltd 5-102

5.32 china glass network 5-103

5.33 JIANGSU HUIYU GLASS CO.,LTD 5-103

5.34 PATTERN GLASS FACTORY 5-103

5.35 Jinan Senfeng Technology CO.,LTD 5-104

List of Tables and Figures

Flexible Glass Executive Summary

Table ES-1 ES-2

Flexile Glass Market Driving Forces

Figure ES-2 ES-6

Flexible Glass Solar Panel Substrate Market Forecasts

Dollars, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Figure ES-3 ES-7

Flexible Glass Thin Film Battery Substrate Market

Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Flexible Glass Market Description And Market Dynamics

Figure 1-1 1-7

Cross Section Of A Thin Film Solar Cell

Flexible Glass Market Shares and Market Forecasts

Table 2-1 2-2

Flexile Glass Market Driving Forces

Figure 2-2 2-6

Flexible Glass Solar Panel Substrate Market Forecasts

Dollars, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Table 2-3 2-7

Flexible Glass Solar Panel Substrate Market Forecasts

Units and Dollars, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Table 2-4 2-8

Photovoltaic Solar Panel Market Forecasts Units and

Dollars, 2010-2016

Figure 2-5 2-12

Asahi Glass Solar Business

Figure 2-6 2-13

Flexible Glass Thin Film Battery Substrate Market

Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Table 2-7 2-14

Flexible Glass Thin Film Battery Substrate Market

Forecasts Units and Dollars, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Table 2-8 2-15

Worldwide Lithium-ion and Advanced Lithium

Battery Market Forecasts, Automotive, Power Tools,

Electric Grid, and PC Card, Dollars, 2009-2015

Table 2-9 2-16

Flexible Glass Thin Film Battery Substrate Market

Forecasts Units and Dollars, Worldwide, 2010-2016

Figure 2-10 2-18

Heptagon Imprint Lithography

Figure 2-11 2-19

LED Imprinting Mold

Figure 2-12 2-23

Flexible Glass Regional Market Segments, 2016

Table 2-13 2-24

Flexible Glass Regional Market Segments, 2016

Flexible Glass Product Description

Table 3-1 3-2

Corning Thin, Lightweight, Flexible Glass Applications

Table 3-2 3-3

Corning Thin, Lightweight, Flexible Glass Key Benefits

Table 3-3 3-4

Corning Microsheet PI0211 Product Configuration(s):

Table 3-4 3-5

Corning Thin, Lightweight, Flexible Glass Product Specifications

Table 3-4 (Continued) 3-6

Corning Thin, Lightweight, Flexible Glass Product Specifications

Table 3-4 (Continued) 3-7

Corning Thin, Lightweight, Flexible Glass Product Specifications

Figure 3-5 3-9

Asahi Glass ETFE Film With High Transparency And Flexibility

Table 3-6 3-10

Asahi Glass Flexible Cell Functions

Table 3-7 3-11

Asahi Glass ETFE Film Flexible Cell Characteristics

Figure 3-8 3-13

Asahi Glass Flexible Glass Green house

Figure 3-9 3-14

Asahi Glass Solar Curve Factor

Figure 3-10 3-15

Asahi Glass Textured Finish to Solar Panel

Table 3-11 3-17

DuPont Kapton® Features

Table 3-12 3-18

DuPont Teonex® PEN and Melinex® ST Polyester Films

Figure 3-13 3-21

Vitex Systems Barix™ Barrier Film (BBF)

Figure 3-14 3-22

Vitex Systems Barix™ Barrier Film (BBF)

Figure 3-15 3-24

Vitex Systems Guardian™ thin-film encapsulation systems

Figure 3-16 3-26

Vitex R&D cluster Thin-Film Encapsulation System

Figure 3-17 3-29

Solyndra Thin-Film CIGS (copper indium

gallium (di)selenide) Photovoltaic Tubular Panel

Table 3-18 3-32

Würth Elektronik Research Substrates To Replace Glass

Table 3-19 3-34

Flexible Glass Eyeglasses

Table 3-20 3-35

Frontgate flex Polarized Unisex Reader Sunglass Features

Figure 3-21 3-39

Micros Microscopes Flexible Glass Stage

Flexible Glass Technology

Table 4-1 4-3

EMD4LCDs & Emerging Technologies Materials

Figure 4-2 4-11

Heptagon UV Replication onto Glass Wafers

Flexible Glass Company Profiles

Figure 5-1 5-26

Asahi Glass Transparent Conductive Film Glass Substrates

Figure 5-2 5-28

Asahi Glass Fuel Cell

Figure 5-3 5-31

AGC Asahi Glass Ecoglass Sun Balance

Figure 5-4 5-32

AGC Asahi Glass Comparison Between Ordinary

Windshield and Coolverre

Figure 5-5 5-33

AGC Asahi Glass Effects of Coolverre

Figure 5-6 5-35

Asahi Glass Revenue

Figure 5-7 5-36

Asahi Glass Sales Ratios

Figure 5-8 5-39

AGC Asahi Glass New Glass Products

Figure 5-9 5-40

AGC Asahi Glass New Glass Products

Figure 5-10 5-41

Asahi Glass Segments

Figure 5-11 5-42

Asahi Glass Sales

Figure 5-12 5-43

Asahi Glass Performance Trends

Figure 5-13 5-44

Asahi Glass Growth Positioning

Figure 5-14 5-45

Asahi Glass Production Technologies

Figure 5-15 5-58

Directed Vapor Technology

Figure 5-16 5-60

DuPont Photovoltaic Encapsulant Functions

Figure 5-17 5-61

DuPont Photovoltaic Encapsulants

Table 5-18 5-63

DuPont Kapton® Features:

Table 5-19 5-64

DuPont Technical Data for Standard Kapton® Polyimide Film

Table 5-20 5-65

DuPont Teonex

Table 5-21 5-72

Nippon Sheet Glass / Pilkington

Table 5-22 5-80

Hoya 売上高推移 Net Sales

Figure 5-23 5-82

fSchott Products Glass-to-Metal-Seals and Ceramic-to-Metal-Seals

Figure 5-24 5-83

Schott Automotive Glass

Figure 5-25 5-83

Schott Defense Seals

Figure 5-26 5-83

Schott Industry Special Products

Figure 5-26 (Continued) 5-84

Schott Industry Special Products

• Figure 5-26 (Continued) 5-85

Schott Industry Special Products

Table 5-27 5-86

Schott Electronic Packaging Product Benefits:

Figure 5-28 5-87

Schott A Flexible Glass Fiber Light Guides Transmit The Light

Figure 5-29 5-89

Schott Ultra thin Glass Flexible Substrates

Figure 5-30 5-94

Vitex Metal Foil Substrate