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Metamaterials are a class of smart materials that are
intrinsically able to control and manipulate light, sound, and other
phenomena. Their prime design characteristic of metamaterials – the
characteristic that enables their various functionalities – is that they are
fabricated as a composite with the constituent materials tightly coupled enough
– that an metamaterial element can be treated as if it were a molecule, but of
a purely artificial material.
The “application” for metamaterials that gets the most
attention in the press is their ability to serve as invisibility cloaks for
military aircraft. However, this futuristic application disguises the
fact that metamaterials are already in use in antennas with many other
applications rapidly emerging including optics, medicine, aerospace,
infrastructure monitoring, military, earthquake monitoring, etc.
In this report we identify the revenue generation potential
over the next eight years for metamaterials. This analysis includes a
discussion of the commercial implications of the latest technological trends,
and how new designs and performance improvements are likely to expand the
addressable markets for metamaterials. For example, we look at the
emergence of photonic metamaterials, tunable metamaterials, FSS selective surface
based metamaterials, etc. The report also analyzes how end-user markets for
shape memory materials are changing.
In putting together this report n-tech has drawn on its
extensive experience in the smart materials space as well as interviews with
key companies shaping these markets. n-tech believes that this report
will provide valuable insight into metamaterials markets that will benefit
marketing and business development executives from various parts of the supply
chain, including raw material suppliers, chemical and coatings companies,
specialized firms and OEMs, as well as investors with an interest in the smart
materials business.
Applications
and Markets
This report identifies the applications areas where n-tech
believes metmaterials have a real opportunity to move beyond the lab to
high-volume commercial applications. In this report we focus on – and forecast
– the use of metamaterials in the following application areas:
- Aersospace
and defense
- Medical
- Consumer
wireless communications
- Infrastructure
monitoring
Eight-Year
Forecasts Metamaterials
This report contains detailed forecasts of volume (in
square meters and units) and revenue (in $ millions), broken down by:
- End
application
- Type of
metamaterial
- Product
type
Profiles
of Key Players
This report evaluates the product/market strategies of the
leading suppliers in the space. Firms that are discussed in this
report include
- Alps
Electric
- Applied Em
- Colossal
Storage Corporation
- Echodyne
Corporation
- Evolv
- Fianium
- Fractal
Antenna Systems,
- Harris
Corporation
- HP
- Inframat
Corp.
- Jem
Engineering
- Kymeta
Corporation
- Luminus
Devices
- Luxtera
- Medical
Wireless Sensing
- Metamagnetics
- Metamaterial
Technologies
- Microwave
Measurement Systems
- Nanohmics
- Nanosonic
- Nanosteel
- Newport
Corp.
- NKT
Photonics
- NEC
- Omniguide
- Opalux
- Panasonic
- Photeon
Technologies
- Photonic
Lattice Inc.
- Plasmonics
- Raytheon
- Samsung
- Sandvik
Materials Technology
- Sumitomo
- Teraview
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