Printed Electronics — On Track to a Major Industry

However, the only severe impact on an incumbent technology may limited to button batteries and a few other things. Later there will be a big impact on conventional lighting, when the up front cost, installation cost and running cost of flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes OLEDs all become superior but that is probably ten years away. Most other applications of printed electronics and electrics will be huge only because they do new things and create new markets, not because they primarily replace existing solutions. Indeed, even with lighting it will often mean creating light in new ways and new locations.