Electronics market

Perhaps the most familiar example in the specialty items category is the consumer electronics market which consists primarily of solar-powered calculators and watches. Although volumes are large in terms of units sold, the revenues are relatively small. Further, the competition is fierce for any photovoltaics manufacturer who seeks to sell commodity solar cells to the consumer goods producer. 

The commercial production of silicon in the form of binary and ternary alloys began early in the twentieth century with the development of electric-arc and blast furnaces and the subsequent rise in iron (qv) and steel (qv) production (1). The most important and most widely used method for making silicon and silicon alloys is by the reduction of oxides or silicates using carbon (qv) in an electric arc furnace. Primary uses of silicon having a purity of greater than 98% ate in the chemical, aluminum, and electronics markets (for higher purity silicon, see Silicon AND SILICON ALLOYS, PURE SILICON). 

The electronics market uses sihcon as trichlorosilane, which is decomposed with hydrogen at high temperatures to produce semiconductor-grade sihcon (see Silicon compounds). 

For the electricity electronics markets. Table 2.18 displays the performances and costs of six engineering thermoplastics reinforced with glass fibres and UL94 VO rated. The designer can choose between four levels of costs, five levels of water absorption and several levels of mechanical and thermal properties according to the requirements. 

The electrical electronics market, with consumption estimated from 3% up to 8% of the thermoplastics total according to the region, is the fourth outlet for thermoplastics. It is also an important sector for thermoplastic composites and TPEs. 

The electrical electronics market dictates some specific regulations. Among them a typical example is the UL (Underwriters Laboratories) requirements related to the long-term service temperature and the fire rating. 

Figure 2.31. Thermoplastic shares in the electrical electronics market...

The electrical electronics market can be divided into several sub-markets differentiated by their functions and requirements. 

Alternative electronic marketing technologies, similar to Muzac s elevator music offering... 

By far the biggest application for SiC technology is the high-power electronics market. It may not be as glamorous as the high-frequency or the optoelectronic markets but it is big. The current size of the power-device market is 16 billion [65] and it is growing at a rate of almost 10% per year [66]. The question on everyone s mind is how big will the SiC share be ... 

Figure 4.5 shows that each new generation of liquid crystals has triggered developments in the electronics market. As technology leaders, we have enabled LCD manufacturers to adopt new ideas with new high-tech liquid crystals. Other new concepts have often arisen from these for which no suitable LC mixture was available. 

We have employed a table of contents (TOC) and a bookmark-driven navigational construct that is similar to the structure employed in CBER s electronic marketing application. You should include at the top of the bookmark hierarchy the following bookmarks Roadmap, Main TOC, and Item TOC (i.e., for the item currently under review). When presenting a TOC in your electronic IND submission, analogous bookmarks should reside in the left-hand margin. 

The DLC market is expected to grow rapidly to reach the billion dollar size. Hundreds of millions of small size DLCs (IF, 5V) are used in the consumer electronic market for more than 20 years. Millions of larger size DLCs (350F, 2.5 V) have already been installed in industrial applications, like wind turbine pitch systems, since 2002. Today DLCs are already used in the car industry, as for example in the breaking actuator system of the Toyota Prius hybrid car, and in the aircraft industry, as for example in the door opening system of the Airbus A380. 

The electronic industry, on the other hand, is growing significantly, and new products are forthcoming at a rapid rate. Demand for electronic polymer products is forecast to expand 6.4 percent per year to 3.5 billion in 2005. Adhesives used in this industry will grow at a rate of 8.8 percent, faster than the industry itself. This will require 485 million lb of resin valued at 1.6 billion. Of this, about 123 million lb of adhesives will be used in the electronics market.1617... 

Whereas ca. 3000 t of ultrapure silicon ( electronic grade ) was produced in 1980 for the manufacture of electronic components markets, the booming electronic industry in the meantime has led to an explosive expansion in production capacity to ca. 20 10 t/a, of which 40% is in the USA, 30% is in Japan and ca. 30% is in Europe. Due to the strongly growing electronics market and the emerging photovoltaic market (solar cells on the basis of crystalline silicon), a strongly expanding demand for ultrapure silicon is expected in the future. 

Syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) represents an important achievement in olefin polymerization catalysis. Syndiotactic PS is an industrially relevant thermoplastic material produced by Dow Chemical and Idemitsu Kosan Co. under the tradenames Questra and Xarec , respectively. Industrial interest on sPS originates from the remarkable properties exhibited by this highly crystalline polymer. The high melting temperature, 270 °C, the relatively fast crystallization rate (at least much faster than that of iPS), the high heat resistance, the low dielectric constant, the high elastic modulus, and an excellent resistance to chemicals explain the industrial interest for this material. Syndiotactic PS was considered as an innovative new resin option for the automotive, electrical, and electronic markets, appliances such as... 

Worldwide consumption was estimated at approx. 40.000-50.000 tons in 1987. Depending on the development of the electronic market, predictions of the growth rate up to 1991 vary between 3 % and 15 % (2). ... 

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