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The lidar market for automotive application will grow to $9.5 billion by 2034. The demand for lidars to be adopted in the automotive industry drives the huge investment and rapid progression of lidars, with the innovations in beam steering technologies and performance improvement & cost reduction in lidar transceiver components. These efforts can enable lidars to be implemented in a wider application scenario beyond conventional usage and automobiles. IDTechEx leverages its experiences such as in laser physics, semiconductor, optics, sensors, optoelectronics, and transportation, to provide a comprehensive analysis on technologies, products, current status and future trend. 10-year market forecasts on lidar units and market value with a focus on automotives have been provided. IDTechEx also provides a spread sheet of a selection of existing and near-future lidar adoptions in the automotive sector.

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the automotive display technology landscape, covering various types of displays and emerging trends. It delves into industry insights obtained from interviews and conferences, offering a SWOT analysis of key technologies. Additionally, it explores advancements beyond displays, including manufacturing requirements and component adaptations like windshield coatings. A 10-year market forecast is presented, encompassing diverse display types and technologies across global regions. Detailed evaluations of each technology's technical and commercial feasibility are provided. The report concludes with extensive company profiles, highlighting key technologies and product lines gleaned from interviews.

This report provides a detailed technological analysis with available options and emerging possibilities across the whole manufacturing process, from epitaxy, chip manufacturing, mass transfer, assembly and integration, bonding and interconnection, testing, defect management, repair, light management, full colour realization, to backplane and driving. By addressing the challenges and opportunities, together with the supply chain evaluation, market status assessment & prediction, and player activity analysis, it helps the readers to make better strategic decisions, to find best technological road map, to seek commercialization and new business opportunities, to know reliable partners, to track the activities of key players and to get the latest industry progress, assisting strategic decisions.

Automotive displays are evolving at a pace never seen before. With the rise in autonomous driving, displays will play a central role in the interaction between the passengers and the vehicle. This report covers novel types of displays as well as key technologies enabling this futuristic experience. The changes in display design, and a holistic view of what makes a display - from the cover glass to the adhesives and driver ICs - are also considered in this report.

Semiconductor photonics at the chip-scale is reviewed, with revenue forecasts given for six key markets. Forecasts are disaggregated by specific applications, material platforms (including silicon and indium phosphide), and geography. We show that the semiconductor photonics industry will not reach saturation by 2033, and is growing at an impressive rate. Semiconductor photonics is the best candidate for achieving increasingly high data rate transmissions, over increasingly long distances.

This report explores 8 distinct applications of optical and radio-frequency metamaterials, including reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, metalenses, and radar beamforming. Based on interactions with over 15 companies, it outlines the key technologies, establishes their readiness levels, and assess the suitability of multiple competing manufacturing methods. 33 forecast lines, segmented by frequency and application, illustrate how the metamaterial market will evolve over the next 20 years.

This report provides critical market intelligence about quantum communication technology. This includes an overview of the emerging quantum computing to data security and solutions offered by quantum random number generators (QRNG) and quantum key distribution (QKD). There is global coverage of trends in the quantum communication market, including comparison with post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This comprehensive study includes over 25 company profiles, and market forecasts for 2024-2034. The quantum communications market is predicted to grow significantly, with a CAGR of 28%.

This report characterizes the optics for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR, AR and MR) devices, analyzing markets, technologies and players. It provides in-depth coverage of 13 individual optics technologies and forecasts their uptake in spatial computing from 2024 to 2034, alongside 10-year forecasts for the entire VR, AR and MR headset market. It outlines growing opportunity, with the VR, AR and MR optics market forecast to grow to US$5.1bn by 2034.

This report characterizes the display industry for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) devices, analyzing markets, technologies and players. It provides in-depth coverage of seven individual display technologies and forecasts their uptake in spatial computing from 2024 to 2034, alongside ten-year forecasts and historic data from 2010 onwards for the entire VR/AR/MR headset market. It outlines growing opportunity, with the VR/AR/MR display market forecast to grow to US$4.6B by 2034.

This report characterizes the quantum sensor markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across 17 quantum sensing technology areas, major applications in electric vehicles, navigation, medical imaging and quantum computing with market forecasts from 2024 to 2044. It reveals significant opportunity, with the quantum sensor market forecast to peak at US$7.1bn by 2044.

IDTechEx has been studying telecommunication technologies for many years and we have just released our latest version of the 6G market research report "6G Market 2023-2043: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players". This report is built on our expertise, covering the latest 6G technology development trend, key applications, player activities, and market outlook. Key aspects in this report include THz technologies trend, semiconductors for THz communication, THz phase array antenna modules, 6G radio analysis, low-loss materials, packaging trend for 6G, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), Metamaterials, Non-terrestrial networks, integrated sensing and communication, 6G market, and future outlook.

Wearable sensors are fundamental to continuous monitoring of health, fitness, and wellness. As applications for wearable technology grow, there are increasing opportunities for sensors that detect parameters ranging from glucose levels to pressure and from motion to temperature. Based on a decade of market research on wearable technology hardware, this report analyses the technological and commercial landscape of this growing industry, both today and into the future.

Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality devices promise to revolutionize the way we interact, acting as key gateways to the metaverse. This report builds a picture of these technologies today, quantitively examining development trends to date and outlining both future directions and technical challenges. The changing role of computing and connectivity is discussed, with component technologies including optics, displays, sensing, and haptics analyzed.

The future of solar technology extends far beyond silicon, with numerous alternative materials that belong to a certain class called 'thin film'. These can deliver several unique advantages such as higher efficiency indoor energy harvesting, simpler manufacturing, and potentially lower costs than conventional silicon PV. A particularly exciting opportunity is their role in powering Internet of Things devices - a rapidly growing market following the increasing smartification of home and retail electronics.

Perovskite photovoltaics have already demonstrated remarkable efficiencies, with new applications enabled by their low cost, thin film architecture and tuneable absorption. This IDTechEx report explores the suitability and market opportunities of perovskite PV as well as the innovation opportunities and barriers to entry. It evaluates methods to resolve the main challenge of stability, as well as manufacturing methods and requirements for speciality materials.