The emergence of applications in cancer diagnostics, cardiology and gastroenterology will help drive the market for clinical optical imaging to $2 billion by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new market report from the ...
Tags: Cancer Diagnostics, optical technologies, ultrasound technologies
Analysts at the consultancy company IHS are predicting a 25 per cent rise in global demand for photovoltaics in 2015, with the emergence of the Indian market set to contribute strongly for the first time. “While 2014 remained a ...
Tags: PV Market, solar panels, solar PV
The global market for laser materials processing systems reached a volume of US$ 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
Now established in curing, UV LED technology is expected to find growth opportunities in disinfection, purification and other new applications by 2017, says a market analyst. Under its new technology and market report entitled UV LED ...
Tags: UV LEDs, New Markets, Disinfection, Purification
The global distributed fiber optic sensor market was valued at $585 million in 2013, and projected to approach $1.5 billion in 2018 with 70% of sales associated with the oil and gas segments. But now a revised market forecast, ...
Tags: fiber optic sensor, Oil Price, smart sensing
Annual production of laser-based manufacturing systems made by companies at German locations for the first time exceed the billion euro mark, according to data compiled by the German Engineering Federation (VDMA), Laser and Laser Systems ...
Tags: Laser Systems, solid-state lasers
In the optical communications markets, demand for 40G transceivers is now “ramping up hard” as data centers deploy 40GbE (Ethernet), particularly as a high-density 10G interface via breakout cables. Also, 40G QSFP (quad small ...
Tags: optical communications markets, transceiver, single-mode fiber
New predictions from Greentech Media’s market research division (GTM Research) suggest that solar photovoltaics will account for half of all the new electricity-generating capacity added globally over the next five years – and ...
Tags: PV industry, global PV demand, PV market
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 3D printing industry continues to grow from strength to strength. According to the latest market report 3D Printing 2015-2025: Technologies, Markets, Players, published by IDTechEx, Cambridge, UK, this industry is set to boom from $1bn ...
Tags: 3D Printing, plastic printing technologies, metal printers
Applications of CCMs in the mobile phone and automotive sectors are fueling camera module revenues. Driven by the mobile phone and automotive sectors, the sales value of the Compact Camera Module (CCM) industry will grow by a factor of by ...
Tags: Compact Camera, Camera Module
Having ventured into the color LED market with its traffic light products in 1998, leading LED manufacturer Lumileds has come a long way with its color LED designs. A week ahead of Lumileds LUXEON C Color Line launch, the company website ...
Tags: Lumileds, LUXEON C, color LEDs, architectural lighting
Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a four-day state visit to Britain from Oct 20 to 23, during which the two countries signed cooperation agreements worth a combined 40 billion pounds, including Chinese investment in a British nuclear power ...
Tags: China-Britain Rapport, closer ties
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has acquired a High Density Radical Flux plasma technology that enables low-temperature Bosch polymer removal. High Density Radical Flux (HDRF) was developed by ...
Tags: Plasma-Therm, plasma technology, HDRF