Description

Nanotechnology has influenced the touch screen industry with respect to innovations in materials which improves performance of touch screen conductive modules, delivering more efficiency devices and bringing down operational costs. Using nanotechnology in touch screen market, may open new path for researches and allow obtaining various properties that was not possible before (for example, flexible devices such as wearables or large area devices such as interactive boards for schools). Currently, there is a lot of research working on that area and there are few companies that will start manufacturing within nano-impacted technologies soon.

The Nanotech TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides intelligence on technologies, products, processes, applications, and strategic insights on nanotechnology-related innovations and their impact across various industries. Technology focus areas include nanomaterials, nanocoatings, nanohealthcare, nanomedicine, and nanomanufacturing.

Miniaturization, a move toward lower power consumption, and the need for enhanced features are driving innovations in the electronics sector. Technology focus areas include semiconductor manufacturing and design, flexible electronics, 3D integration/IC, MEMS and NEMS, solid state lighting, advanced displays, nanoelectronics, wearable electronics, wireless charging, brain computer interface, advanced displays, near field communication, and next generation data storage or memory.

Keywords: Nanotechnology, touch screens, conductive thin layer, transparent conductive layer, touch screen wearables