It explores thee following key aspects with respect to nanotechnology:
- Innovative push
- Business drivers and challenges
- Applications and devices
- Stakeholder categorization and strategies
- Adoption timelines and market sizes
- Impact on pricing
The report presents an all-round view of the gaps in current processes that nanotechnology will most effectively fill. It also presents the perspective of the major stakeholders and constructs a matrix model of their activities and strategies. Importantly, it systematically identifies the timelines for its mainstream adoption in different applications and projects its likely impact on the pricing of these devices and applications. The applications and devices covered include the following among others:
- Batteries
- Antennas
- Displays
- Memory
- Chipsets
- Processors
The report breaks down the results along to major geographical segments including North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Cover Photo Description: Atomicresolution Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) image showing stacks ofself-assembled quantum dots. Quantum dots are being actively researched as oneof the key nanomaterial components for wireless handsets. Source: Image by D. Bruls and P. M.Koenraad—Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; The EPSRCnanotechnology image library; http://www.nanofolio.org/images/gallery04.php;This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works3.0 License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/.
The wireless devices industry worldwide is driven by portability, miniaturization, power efficiency and consistent ROI, which are also its key desirable attributes. Nanotechnology principles, materials and techniques hold enormous potential towards realizing these attributes.