Optical Coatings: Technologies and Global Markets

Optical Coatings: Technologies and Global Markets published by BCC Research in October, 2009. This report consists of 145 pages and the price starts from US $ 4850.

Introduction

Abstract

• 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter- 1: INTRODUCTION -- Complimentary

• STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
• REASONS FOR DOING THE STUDY
• SCOPE OF REPORT
• METHODOLOGY AND INFORMATION SOURCES
• INTENDED AUDIENCE
• ANALYST CREDENTIALS
• RELATED REPORTS
• BCC ONLINE SERVICES
• DISCLAIMER

Chapter-2: SUMMARY

• SUMMARY TABLE GLOBAL MARKET FOR OPTICAL COATINGS BY SEGMENT, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• SUMMARY (CONTINUED)
• SUMMARY FIGURE GLOBAL MARKET FOR OPTICAL COATINGS, BY SEGMENT, 2009-2015 ($ MILLIONS)

Chapter-3: OVERVIEW

• MARKET DEFINITION AND SCOPE
• IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRY
• Coatings on Glass Surfaces
• Coatings on Plastic Surfaces
• AR Coatings
• Reflective Coatings
• Conductive Coatings
• Electrochromic Coatings
• HISTORY
  • TABLE 1 COATING TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• FLAT-SCREEN TV
• MILITARY PROJECTS PUSH INNOVATION
• FORESEEABLE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
• TOUCH SCREENS
• CELL PHONES
• LAPTOPS
• SOLAR PANELS
• LIGHTING
• GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
• ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS
• SOLAR FUNDING

Chapter-4: MATERIALS

• GLOBAL VALUE BY MATERIAL CATEGORY
  • TABLE 2 GLOBAL VALUE OF THE OPTICAL COATINGS MARKET BY MATERIAL CATEGORY, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• OXIDE COATINGS
  • FIGURE 1 GLOBAL VALUE OF OXIDE COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• FLUORIDE COATINGS
  • FIGURE 2 GLOBAL VALUE OF FLUORIDE COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• METAL COATINGS
  • FIGURE 3 GLOBAL VALUE OF METAL COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• PLASTIC COATINGS
  • FIGURE 4 GLOBAL VALUE OF PLASTIC COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• Future Markets
• OTHER COATINGS
• COATING CHARACTERISTICS
• REFRACTIVE INDEX
  • TABLE 3 MOST COMMON COATING MATERIALS
• OXIDES
• Alumina
• Silica
• Indium Tin Oxide
• Titania
• Tantalum Oxide
• Zirconium Oxide
• FLUORIDE COATINGS
• Magnesium Fluoride
• IR Coatings
• METALS
• Aluminum and Silver
• Gold
  • TABLE 4 METALS COMMONLY USED IN OPTICAL THIN FILMS

Chapter-5: TECHNOLOGY

• REVENUES BY DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE
  • TABLE 5 GLOBAL VALUE OF OPTICAL COATINGS MARKET BY DEPOSITION TECHNOLOGY, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• EVAPORATIVE
  • FIGURE 5 GLOBAL FORECAST FOR EVAPORATIVE COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• Vacuum Chambers
• Pumping Systems
• Substrate Processing
• Power Supply
• Evaporation Sources
• Thermal Evaporation
• Electron Beam (E-Beam) Bombardment
• IAD
• SPUTTERING
  • FIGURE 6 GLOBAL FORECAST FOR SPUTTERED COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• Sputtering Deposition Characteristics
• Magnetron Sputtering
• Ion-beam Sputtering
• VAPOR DEPOSITION
  • FIGURE 7 GLOBAL FORECAST FOR VAPOR DEPOSITION COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• SOLUTION CHEMISTRY
  • FIGURE 8 GLOBAL FORECAST FOR SOLUTION CHEMISTRY COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• Unpromising Early Results
• COATING POLYMERS
• PATENTS
• IMPORTANCE OF PATENTS
• PATENT CENSUS
  • TABLE 6 U.S. PUBLISHED PATENTS AND APPLICATIONS, 2007-2009
• Patent Census (Continued)

Chapter-6: MARKETS BY PRODUCTS

• GLOBAL VALUE BY PRODUCT TYPE
  • TABLE 7 GLOBAL VALUE FOR OPTICAL COATINGS MARKET BY PRODUCTS, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• REVENUE MODEL
• PRICING MODEL
  • TABLE 8 AVERAGE PRICE FOR OPTICAL COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• Coating Price as a Function of Volume
  • TABLE 9 FACTORS IN PRICING
• COATING TYPES
• AR COATINGS
  • FIGURE 9 GLOBAL VALUE OF AR COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• FILTERS
• Multilayer Stacks
• REFLECTIVE
  • FIGURE 10 GLOBAL VALUE OF REFLECTIVE COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• Metallic
• Multi-Layer Stacks
• ELECTROCHROMIC COATINGS
  • FIGURE 11 GLOBAL VALUE OF ELECTROCHROMIC COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
  • FIGURE 11 (CONTINUED)
• CONDUCTIVE COATINGS
  • FIGURE 12 GLOBAL VALUE OF CONDUCTIVE COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• DEVICES
• MIRRORS
• MULTILAYER STACKS
• Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
• Beamsplitters
• Wideband Beamsplitters
• Dichroic Beamsplitters
• TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS
• FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES
• ALTERNATIVE CONDUCTIVE COATINGS
• Nanotube Carbon
• Low Temperature
• Low Cost
• Need High Index Option

Chapter-7: MARKETS BY APPLICATION

• TOTAL GLOBAL VALUE BY APPLICATION
  • TABLE 10 GLOBAL VALUE OF OPTICAL COATINGS MARKET BY APPLICATION, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• THREE LEADING MARKETS
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST BY PRODUCT
  • TABLE 11 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS BY PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
  • FIGURE 13 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR TELECOM, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• FACTORS AFFECTING REVENUES
• Lingering Effect of Contraction
• Stagnant Prices
• Economic Slowdown
• International Factors
• High-bandwidth Applications
• Smart Appliances
• Online Schooling
• Video Conferencing
• MODEL DETAILS
• Global Fiber Deployment
  • TABLE 12 LENGTH OF NEW NETWORK FIBER INSTALLED, THROUGH 2015 (MILLION FIBER KILOMETERS)
• Long-Haul Fiber Glut
• Metropolitan Fiber Build Out
• Broadband Internationally
• ELECTRONICS
  • TABLE 13 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR ELECTRONICS BY COATING TYPE THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
  • FIGURE 14 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR ELECTRONICS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• GROWTH FACTORS
• Emerging Consumer Markets
• Coated Surfaces
• CELL PHONES
  • TABLE 14 GLOBAL MARKET UNIT FORECAST FOR CELL PHONES, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
• Mature Technology
• Replacement Rate
• Penetration
• Asia
• Europe
• Americas
• COMPUTERS
  • TABLE 15 GLOBAL MARKET UNIT FORECAST FOR COMPUTERS, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
• TELEVISIONS
  • TABLE 16 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR TELEVISIONS BY END PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
• CONSUMER PRODUCTS
  • TABLE 17 GLOBAL MARKET UNIT FORECAST FOR ELECTRONICS BY END PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
• WATCHES
• CALCULATORS
• CAMERAS
• CD AND DVDS
  • TABLE 18 GLOBAL MARKET UNIT FORECAST FOR ELECTRONICS BY END PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
• ARCHITECTURE
• COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
  • FIGURE 15 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR ARCHITECTURE, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• Revenue Model
  • TABLE 19 FLOAT GLASS PRODUCTION, THROUGH 2015 (MILLION SQ FT)
  • TABLE 20 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR ARCHITECTURE BY PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
• MEDICAL
  • TABLE 21 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR MEDICAL COATINGS BY PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
  • FIGURE 16 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR MEDICAL COATINGS, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• EYEWEAR LENSES
  • TABLE 22 EYEGLASS MARKET IN THE U.S., THROUGH 2015 (UNITS MILLIONS/%)
• Eyewear Lenses (Continued)
• Eyewear Lenses (Continued)
  • TABLE 23 WORLD POPULATIONS, BY REGION, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
  • TABLE 24 GLOBAL EYEGLASS MARKET, BY REGION, THROUGH 2015 (MILLION UNITS)
• Eyewear Coating Revenues
  • TABLE 25 GLOBAL EYEGLASS COATING REVENUES, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS
• Endoscopes
  • TABLE 26 WORLDWIDE ENDOSCOPE SALES, THROUGH 2015 (UNITS)
• Robots
• LASER SYSTEMS
• Revenues
  • TABLE 27 GLOBAL VALUE FOR MEDICAL LASER COATINGS, THROUGH 2015 (MILLIONS)
• Market Opportunity
• SECURITY
  • TABLE 28 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR DEFENSE/SECURITY PRODUCTS, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
  • FIGURE 17 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR DEFENSE, 2008-2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• NIGHT VISION
  • TABLE 29 GLOBAL NIGHT VISION COATING SALES FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT, THROUGH 2015
  • TABLE 30 REVENUES FROM MILITARY GOGGLES, THROUGH 2015
• ORDNANCE
• SECURITY CAMERAS
  • TABLE 31 REVENUES FROM SECURITY CAMERAS, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES
• Energy Harvesting
• Advanced Robots
• TRANSPORTATION
  • TABLE 32 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR VEHICLES BY PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
  • FIGURE 18 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR VEHICLE COATINGS, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• TRANSPORTATION REVENUE MODEL
• Vehicle Volumes
• Cars and Light Trucks
  • TABLE 33 GLOBAL CONSUMER VEHICLE SALES VOLUME BY REGION, THROUGH 2015 (MILLION UNITS)
• Commercial Vehicles
  • TABLE 34 GLOBAL COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SALES VOLUME, THROUGH 2015 (UNITS)
• ELECTROCHROMIC COATINGS
  • TABLE 35 GLOBAL ELECTROCHROMIC MIRROR MARKET, THROUGH 2015 (MILLION UNITS)
• Electro chromic Revenues
• SOLAR
  • TABLE 36 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR SOLAR BY PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
  • FIGURE 19 GLOBAL VALUE FORECAST FOR SOLAR, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)
• OTHER APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 37 GLOBAL MARKET FORECAST FOR ALL OTHER COATINGS, BY PRODUCT, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS)

Chapter-8: INDUSTRY STRUCTURE AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

• DRIVING FORCES IN INDUSTRY
• GLOBAL ECONOMIC FACTORS
• Real Estate Collapse
• Effect of Consumer Debt Levels
• Collapse of Debt Financing
• Government Spending
• Inflation or Deflation?
• Future Rates
• EMERGING MARKETS
• Political Risks
• Cultural Shifts
• INDUSTRY STRUCTURE
• CONSOLIDATION
• SHRINKING MARGINS
• Defense Exception
• NICHE OPPORTUNITIES
• UNIVERSITY EFFORTS

Chapter-9: COMPANY PROFILES

• TABLE 38 MARKET LEADING COATING COMPANIES, 2008 ($ MILLIONS)
• 3M PRECISION OPTICS
• ABRISA GLASS & COATINGS, INC.
• ZC&R Coatings for Optics
• ACCUCOAT, INC.
• AFE TECHNOLOGY COATINGS, LTD.
• ALIGN OPTICS
• AMERINA
• ANDOVER CORP.
• APOGEE
• Viratec Thin Films
• APPLIED COATINGS GROUP
• APPLIED FILM CORP.
• A.R.W. OPTICAL CORP.
• ARTEMIS INTERNATIONAL
• AXSYS TECHNOLOGIES
• BARR ASSOCIATES
• BREWER SCIENCE, INC.
• CARL ZEISS
• CERAC, INC.
• CHROMA TECHNOLOGY
• CLEVELAND CRYSTALS
• COURSEN COATINGS
• CPFILMS
• CRYSTAL TECHNO
• CVI MELLES GRIOT, INC.
• DAHENG OPTICS
• DELTA LIGHT & OPTICS
• DENTON VACUUM, LLC
• DEPOSITION SCIENCES
• DICON FIBEROPTICS, INC.
• DISPLAYS & OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES
• DONTECH, INC.
• DYNASIL
• Evaporated Metal Films
• EVAPORATED COATINGS, INC.
• FERSON OPTICS
• FLIR SYSTEMS OPTRONICS
• FOSTA-TEK OPTICS, INC.
• FRAUNHOFER-INSTITUT FUR ANGEWANDTE OPTIK UND FEINMECHANIK
• Fraunhofer Japan
• FUZHOU SENVIEW OPTICS CO., LTD.
• GOODRICH CORP.
• H.L. CLAUSING
• HALMA
• Ocean Optics
• Oerlikon Balzers Thin Films
• HAMPTON SCIENTIFIC, INC.
• HELLA PHOTONICS
• HUDSON OPTICAL LABORATORIES, INC.
• II-VI
• IMT MASKEN UND TEILUNGEN AG
• INTEGRATED OPTICAL SERVICES
• IRIDIAN SPECTRAL TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
• ISP OPTICS CORP.
• JANOS TECHNOLOGY
• JDSU
• JIAXING LANTE OPTICS
• LAMBDA RESEARCH OPTICS, INC.
• LAYERTEC
• MAJESTIC OPTICAL COATINGS
• METAVAC
• ML OPTIC CORP.
• MSO JENA MIKROSCHICHTOPTIK GMBH
• NACL INDUSTRIAL OPTICAL DIVISION
• NEWPORT
• OCLARO
• OPHIR OPTRONICS, LTD.
• OPTICAL COATINGS JAPAN
• OPTICS BALZERS
• OPTOPLEX CORP.
• OPTOSIGMA
• OPTOVISION TECHNOLOGIES
• OXFORD INSTRUMENTS
• PFG OPTICS
• PPG INDUSTRIES
• ONE PPG PLACE
• PHOTONIC PRODUCTS GROUP, INC.
• PRAZISIONS GLAS & OPTIK GMBH
• PRINCETON INSTRUMENTS
• RESEARCH ELECTRO-OPTICS, INC.
• REYNARD CORP.
• TIGOLD CORP.
• TOPPAN
• TOYOTEC
• UNIVERSE COATING SERVICES
• XINXIANG BAIHE O.E. CO., LTD.
• YANGZHOU HUASHENG OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS FACTORY

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