6G Communications: Materials and Components Markets 2023-2043

6G Communications will definitely happen, opening up considerable opportunities for added-value materials and electronic, optical and electrical components. Over one billion dollars are committed already and 50 major companies and countries are increasingly involved. Startling likely benefits make it a one-way bet. Healthily, the obsession with non-hardware aspects is now turning to the hardware aspects essential for success. The new report, “6G Communications: Materials and Components Markets 2023-2043” from Research and Markets gives the materials and component forecasts, roadmaps and analysis based on reasonable stated assumptions concerning standards, frequencies, timing and so on. See the problems that are your opportunities.

To materials and component companies, this report is invaluable in cutting through the acronym and jargon incontinence of the existing material. In previous work, sometimes there are six different terms for the same thing, some terms mean many different things and acronyms are rarely defined at all. Indeed the tsunami of mathematics makes aspiring hardware manufacturers want to kill themselves. 

In contrast, this report is full of new infograms, graphs, tables and pictures pulling it all together strictly from the materials and component point of view. It is essential to be up to date in this fast-evolving subject if you are to participate so there is a huge amount of 2022 research and expert viewpoints appraised from 2022 and constant updates. See gaps in the market for thermal, electronic, optical and energy harvesting materials, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces RIS and metamaterials. Learn why graphene, GaAs, InP, other 3-5 compounds, vanadium dioxide, silicas, aluminas, celluloses, silicones, liquid crystals, SiGe, ITO, fluoropolymers, PET and fine metals etc., are in the frame. Think added value versions such as silica hydrogels and aerogels and vanadium dioxide as a metamaterial pattern. 6G could create one of the largest markets for printed electronics. 

The report is critical not evangelistic. Materials lessons from the research pipeline and our appraisals are given in comparison tables, infograms, new scenic images showing marine, land, indoor and other deployment with parameters and likely participants named. Throughout see a large number of recent references for your drill-down on specifics.

Questions answered include:

• Which base station materials proliferate?
• 6G effect on X-Reality, IoT, smartphones?
• 6G smartphone thermal materials forecast?
• Surge in thermal infrastructure. When, why?
• Likely 6G frequencies - materials implications?
• Materials targeted by major regional investments in 6G?
• Technology, launches and standards roadmaps for 2023-2043?
• Component lessons from the THz research pipeline through 2022?
• Visible light communication vital: free space, LiFi, fiber optic, infrared parts? 
• What 6G infrastructure will become essential by land, water and aerospace?
• Why so much graphene, GaAs, InP and derivatives, silicas, silicones, aluminas? 
• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces vital. Costs, reasons, forecasts, technical roadmap?

There is a Glossary at the start of the report but terms are also explained in the text with a minimum of jargon. The 36-page Executive Summary is for those in a hurry. It has 6G SWOT report, charts appraising many materials and components with 6G applications. See ten key conclusions, yearly and geographical trend images, new infograms on the thermal opportunities and hardware to beat the “Terahertz Gap”. There are another 17 pages of twenty-year roadmaps and forecasts - RIS, base stations, thermal materials, InP, fiber optics, IoT, X-Reality and a world map of latest global 6G development activity highlighting hardware.

The 15-page Introduction gives lessons from how we got here - 1G to 5G, the 6G going-green dilemma and the transmission distance dilemma: potentially lucrative opportunities for you. It has a 6G materials SWOT assessment and a brief look at emerging 6G component manufacturing technologies.

Chapter 3 with 22 closely-packed pages concerns burgeoning 6G thermal management including for closer packing of hotter client electronics, thermal interfaces and heat spreaders, cooling ubiquitous 6G photovoltaics and base stations. See SWOT appraisal. Identify 5G thermal materials suppliers and their leading-edge products that are appropriate. Learn how they can enter 6G and who they should buy for what missing thermal management capability. 

Chapter 4 does much the same in 14 pages for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces - a curiosity for 5G but essential for 6G. Understand passive vs semi-passive vs active RIS opportunities. SWOT appraisal. Chapter 5 is on 6G devices - optical, electronic and electrical. It scopes development status and potential including semiconductors, THz alternatives, THz waveguides.

Chapter 6 explores graphene and other 2D materials for 6G Communications. It finds graphene to be the most significant of these, spanning 6G plasmonics, transistor surrogates, RIS, modulators, splitters, routers, pseudocapacitors, supercapacitors - a surprising 21 pages. Chapter 7 takes a full 34 pages to cover other emerging materials for 6G: optical, electronic, electrical and micro-mechanical. The big advances in 2022 feature strongly. 

The report closes with 49 pages on 6G Communications projects world-wide involving material and component research. This is very revealing about the nature of the 6G material and components development that is most-strongly funded and why. In short, this report surfaces how billion-dollar businesses can emerge that make 6G added-value materials and components. That means from fine metal patterning, flexible and thin film electronics to the heavy end of facility energy harvesting, giant base-station thermal management and RIS facades across skyscrapers. The time to get involved is now.