Equipment spending by semiconductor chip manufacturers, a key industrial market for vendors of both lithography and laser-based wafer processing systems, will reach $32 billion in 2010 – more than double the 2009 figure. ...
Tags: semiconductor, chip, LED fab
Pocket projector; mini projector; pico-projector; nano-projector. The muddle of names that has sprung up around these miniature display products succeeds at least in dragging our thoughts away from the projectors that we are more familiar ...
Tags: Pocket Projectors, miniature display products, LEDs, laser
In 2007 Sony grabbed the world's attention with its XEL-1 TV, offering pitch-black blacks and superb motion resolution from a wafer-thin, low power consumption panel. Despite its modest 11-inch size, the milestone product put organic light ...
Tags: OLED products, OLED display, Sony, Samsung
Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays
Whisper it softly, but, ten years since the telecom bubble burst, we may be about to witness another boom in sales of optical components for communications infrastructure. Analysts at Lightcounting, which specializes in forecasting the ...
Tags: photonic devices, telecom, datacom systems
The German photonics sector will employ 165,000 people in the country by the end of the decade, according to a market and industry study presented by Photonik Forschung Deutschland at the LASER World of Photonics trade show in Munich. ...
The integration of LEDs into biophotonics and medical science devices is set to increase in value by a multiple of five over the coming six years, according to a new forecast by ElectroniCast, Upper Lake, CA, USA. Earlier this week, the ...
Tags: LEDs, biophotonics, medical science devices
The global sales value of fiber optic circulators in optical communications will grow at an average annual rate of 8.4 percent, from this year’s value of almost $230m reaching $313m by 2017. These are the conclusions reached in a ...
China’s fast-growing market for LED lighting will more than double in value to be worth $7.4 billion in 2017, according a new market study. Analysts at Lux Research believe that a virtuous cycle of falling prices, policy support ...
In a dramatic change from the status quo, nearly half of all gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs will be produced on silicon substrates by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new report by analysts at IHS, who forecast that the ...
Tags: LED Production, GaN LEDs, sapphire wafers
The sales value of light emitting diode-based lamps for explosion-proof lighting applications will increase from $151.5 million in 2013 to $248.1 million in the year 2020 (equivalent to a 7.3% annual increase), according to the latest ...
Tags: LED Lamps, fluorescent tube, Safety Lighting
Falling product costs will help to propel the market for LED-based luminaires to some $25 billion in 2023, up more than a factor of 12 from today’s figure of $2 billion and equivalent to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 per ...
More than 13 GW of solar power generating capacity is now in place across the US, after 2013 witnessed a record 4.8 GW of installations, including some 2.8 GW in utility-scale projects. The explosive growth figures come from GTM ...
Tags: Photovoltaics, solar power, Electricity
Powered by a growing range of applications, 3D printing – encompassing laser additive manufacturing at the higher end – will become a mainstream production tool in many industries. Significant growth for this sector is predicted ...
Tags: 3D Printing, laser, additive
Market analysis on the consumption and technology trends of commercial (non-military) fiber optic collimating lens assemblies, widely used in optical communication applications, predict that these technologies will experience strong demand ...