Two new LED market surveys reveal the growing importance of Chinese suppliers to the world market and the significant growth forecast for LED multifaceted reflector lamps. Firstly, China’s significant investment in its LED ...
Tags: LED industry, MR Lamp, worldwide market
Volvo Cars has selected INRIX, Inc. for the car maker's first live traffic service to help better tackle the challenges of daily driving. INRIX will provide Volvo drivers with rich, real-time and predictive traffic flow information for ...
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Global sales of photonic sensors and detectors will increase from $6.3 billion in 2013, an estimated $7.3 billion in 2014 and will reach $15.2 billion in 2019, according to a new market study by analyst BCC Research. This growth equates to ...
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The latest quarterly Online Retail Report from eWAY has revealed Sydneysiders are now the biggest online spenders in Australia, overtaking Melbourne by 5.7 per cent, and spending more than double the amount per transaction. According to ...
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Led by China, the solar industry will grow at a CAGR of 8.3% – from 37.5 GWp (gigawatt peak) in 2013 to 65.6 GWp in 2019 – but emerging trade disputes involving the Asian giant, as much as global policies, cast a shadow over ...
Tags: solar industry, Market, X-Si
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2014 edition of its Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan, intended for R&D programs, aims to guide ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting
The global photonics market is worth at least $150bn, according to analysis by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics (and owner of optics.org). The data were presented last week (4 September) by SPIE’s Industry and ...
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The emergence of applications in cancer diagnostics, cardiology and gastroenterology will help drive the market for clinical optical imaging to $2 billion by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new market report from the ...
Tags: Cancer Diagnostics, optical technologies, ultrasound technologies
In 2014, in the APAC region alone, the consumption value of LED lamps used in general lighting is expected to reach $2.7 billion, increasing to $6.7 billion in 2019. These are the main conclusions of the latest market analysis by ...
Tags: LED Lamp, general lighting, decorative light
The global market for laser materials processing systems reached a volume of US$ 11.6 billion in 2014. According to a preliminary analysis of 2014 data produced by Optech Consulting, based in Taegerwilen, Switzerland, that figure is up 8% ...
Tags: laser systems, fiber lasers, semiconductors
The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), one of the most respected collectors of data on solar installations, says that only 7 GW of additional solar power was connected to Europe’s grids in 2014 – down 36 per cent ...
The global market for airborne infrared countermeasures will grow at an average rate of less than 3 per cent over the coming five years – despite the ongoing replacement of flares with far more advanced laser-based systems. That ...
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The annual global market for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will exceed $150 billion by 2024, as the technology shifts from a high-cost, subsidized source of electricity to one that is genuinely competitive with conventional fuels on ...
Tags: Navigant, solar photovoltaic, CdTe cells
Market research firm IHS Infonetics has published new vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its second quarter 2015 IHS Infonetics Optical Network Hardware report. According to the report, global optical network hardware ...
Tags: optical network hardware, WDM
The global wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) equipment market grew 23% sequentially in Q2 2015, according to the latest report from Dell'Oro Group, an analyst of the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries. During ...