The global piezoelectric crystal industry has gone through several boom-and-bust cycles. However, in the last five years, several applications have emerged for piezoelectric materials because of the new revolution in wireless and wire line communications.
The global market for the existing eleven generic types of piezoelectric devices now equals US $10.6 billion and is expected to reach $19.5 billion by 2012.
The worldwide aumtomotive electric products market will reach $74 billion in 2006 and will continue to grow at an AAGR of 8.1% to reach $110 billion by 2011.
According to a recently published report from iRAP, Inc., the global market for piezoelectric-operated actuators and motors was estimated to be $6.6 billion in 2009 and is estimated to reach $12.3 billion by 2014, showing an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 13.2% per year.
Quartz crystals are currently used for most high performance systems, but they are not economical when used with system integrated circuits (ICs) due to costly hermetic packaging requirements.
It covers issues concerning the merits and future prospects of the MEMS microphone business, including corporate strategies, information technologies, and the means for providing these highly advanced products and service offerings.
The study will benefit existing manufacturers of handheld electronic consumer products who seek to expand revenues and market opportunities by growing into the new technology of thin-film batteries.
Audiences for this study include marketing executives, business unit managers and other decision-makers in the micro fuel cell industry as well as in companies peripheral to this business.
Ultracapacitors market growth will continue during 2006 to 2011. The $272 million (in US$) worldwide ultracapacitor business in 2006 will continue to grow at an AAGR of 15.3% through 2011.
The coming decade will see the rapid emergence of low-cost, intelligent, wireless switches and wireless sensors and their widespread deployment throughout our environment. The report reviews the various energy harvesting technologies currently available or under development.
The market data contained in this report quantify opportunities for ultracapacitors. In addition to product types, this report also covers the many issues concerning the merits and future prospects of the ultracapacitor business, including corporate strategies, information technologies, and the means for providing these highly advanced product and service offerings.
The next generation of large format, rechargeable, lithium-ion batteries has improved safety characteristics in part through the use of alternative, nanosized materials, particularly phosphates.
Over the past few years, fuel cells have demonstrated increased reliability and lower costs thanks to the incorporation of nanomaterials. Nanomaterials are also increasingly used in the production, purification and storage of hydrogen for use with fuel cells.
This directory provides profiles of more than 800 companies, government organizations and universities involved in commercializing fuel cells, hydrogen energy and related nanotechnology.
The study would benefit the manufacturers and consumers of branded organic baby food products like infant formula, organic milk, organic cereals, organic fruits and vegetables.
The “Digital Age” is very much the “Age of Nanofabrication.” At 1976 transistor prices, an IPod® would cost 3.2 billion dollars, according to Applied Material calculations. That fact highlights the importance of lithography at the nanoscale, as it it the technology that makes printing millions of transistors in a space measured in less than a few square inches possible and affordable.
Nanostructured or nano-enabled batteries are a new generation of lithium-ion batteries and battery systems to serve applications and markets outside the historical domain of lithium-ion.
The market data contained in this report quantifies opportunities for nanoenabled
packaging technologies, nanomaterials used for packaging, and technology applications. In addition to product types, it also covers the merits and future prospects of the nano-enabled pharma packaging business.
One of the features of this report is an analysis of operations across the industry – for example, average sales accruing to captive, custom and proprietary profile extrusion operations, the number of extrusion lines and employees per plant, the number of employees per extrusion line – that processors can utilize to benchmark their own operations.
The consensus among the processors is that there are significant technological changes in plastic sheet offerings, and there are ongoing innovations in thermoformed part decoration.
Despite the welcome, albeit temporary, respite in the pricing of crude oil and natural gas due to the unfolding global financial crisis and economic slowdown, composite processors – in common with all other regional plastics processors – have to continue adapting to the new economics of energy.
After decades of rapid growth over the course of the past half-century the North American rotational molding business demonstrates all the classic signs of maturity.
This report distills data and insights gathered from a telephone-based survey of over 100 companies involved on the supply and demand sides of the compression molding business.
The level of industry concentration has always been high in industrial blow molding, and events of the past few years have raised this measure even higher.
Thermoplastic pipe is by far the largest component of this business, accounting for 9.4 billion lbs. of plastic material (96% of total plastic pipe output in volume terms) and $9.7 billion in annual sales (92% of total plastic pipe output in value terms).
This report presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the past, current and likely future state of the regional bottle blow molding business.
The concept of wood/plastic composite material has a long history in plastics processing, yet it is only in the past few years that its potential in decking, fencing, railing and other building and non-building products has been addressed.
