Abstract
THIS REPORT:
- Covers the global optical coatings market, focusing on optical coatings
used in telecommunications, transportation, defense, photography, electronics
and medical markets
- Offers current data for the global optical coatings markets and makes
forecasts through 2014
- Presents a detailed overview of optical coatings, including definitions
- Reviews current and recent technology
- Includes detailed company profiles and a thorough patent analysis.
STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
This BCC study analyzes the status of global markets for optical coatings.
Optical coatings may be devices, but more typically are a value-added feature
of an optical element, such as a lens or a digital display. Many elements are
fabricated and coated in volume and thus have low prices and margins.
Innovation is critical for revenue growth in the coatings industry. The
markets with the highest margins and fastest growth for coatings are new
applications, where coatings offer a new advantage, and where the coating
designer and processor may have an advantage. Mass production of devices
drives down prices and trims margins.
Custom coating design opportunities support a fragmented industry. Military
applications are the bread-and-butter market, because military applications
have stricter specifications and are less price-sensitive than are consumer
applications. The miniaturization in medical procedures offers opportunities
for innovative coatings. The transportation applications are growing as
vehicle designs include cameras, displays, and other optical systems. Growth
in the telecom sector continues to be slow as the extension of fiber toward
the end user remains slow.
This report considers market conditions and opportunities in regional areas
around the globe. The report also considers the potential new high margins
coatings applications that will emerge in the next 5 years.
Optical coatings are used in telecommunications, medicine, displays, and
imaging applications. Coatings determine which wavelengths of light are
transmitted or reflected, which determines the resolution and quality of any
display or projected image.
This report provides a standard 5-year planning cycle and revenue estimates
through 2015. It defines product segments for optical coating technology
categories, analyzes technology options, and determines current application
markets as well as likely future opportunities. Additionally, this report
defines and graphically analyzes these optical coating markets from many
perspectives, categorizes and profiles the companies involved, defines unique
nomenclature, and details policy organizations, conferences, authors, and
consortiums.
SCOPE OF REPORT
This BCC business opportunity report covers, with a critical eye, the global
optical coatings marketplace. It focuses particularly on the markets and
opportunities for optical in telecommunications, transportation, defense,
photography, electronics, and medical markets.
This study is presented in easy-to-follow sections that overview this subject,
define the technology, segment the market by product type and application,
profile companies, and identify suppliers. All dollar amounts are expressed in
current 2009 U.S. dollars.
This is a complete source for serious players in the optical coatings
marketplace.
METHODOLOGY AND INFORMATION SOURCES
Materials and data presented in this report were obtained from telephone
interviews with marketing and engineering personnel at the major companies
profiled, as well as from catalogs, the Internet, patterns, and the literature
search of current articles related to optical coatings technology.
ANALYST CREDENTIALS
The author received a Ph.D. in material science and engineering from the
University of Arizona in 1993, based on a dissertation on the fabrication and
characteristics of sol gel optical waveguides. She then worked for 2 years at
Sandia National Labs on the development of thin film zeolite filters for gas
separation applications. Since 1996, she has covered the transportation market
as both a contributing editor and editor of Advanced Transportation Technology
News and authored numerous Business Opportunity Reports in advanced materials
and transportation for BCC.
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