Frost & Sullivan: Technological Developments Offer Growth Opportunities for Microscope Market, Despite Saturation in Certain Segments

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Frost & Sullivan: Technological Developments

Offer Growth Opportunities for Microscope

Market, Despite Saturation in Certain Segments

PR Newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 27, 2012

- Spending on life sciences and nanotechnology will lead to sustained

industry growth

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California

,

June 27, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- The need to

overcome long sales cycles and the saturation of the light microscope segment

represent some of the key industry challenges today within the global

microscope market. Leaders in this market are overcoming this challenge by

offering software-defined architectures with better statistical analysis

performance capabilities that acquire a higher quality of data. Software

applications are giving end-users different ways to improve complexity in

sample data analysis.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.measurement.frost.com),

Analysis of the Microscopes Market

, finds that the global microscope

markets earned revenues of

$3.18 billion

in 2011 and is expected to grow at a

compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.0 percent during the forecasted

period between 2012 and 2018.

If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an

email to Jeannette Garcia, Corporate Communications, at

[e-mail], with your full name, company name, job title,

telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and

country.

Although the growth of the market is focused on advanced research

microscopes and complex digital imaging systems, there is a large and

saturated market for light microscopes with high longevity to serve traditional

applications and educational use. The light microscopes longevity and

saturation thus restrains growth of the market.

"The market has reached a highly saturated growth phase," said Senior

Research Analyst Mariano Kimbara. "There is minimal capacity for alternative

techniques in this segment within the long-term."

Nevertheless, microscope manufacturers are constantly driven to increase the

performance capabilities of their products, acquire data and add new features

for image processing to meet demands in emerging applications such as

nanotechnology.

"A main driving factor driving demand for microscopes is the development of

nanotechnology and increasing spending in life sciences," said Kimbara. "There

has been a significant rise in funds allocated for characterization and synthesis

of nanomaterials research."

For example, there have been significant technological advancements in the

field of nanolithography. These include the analysis of nanometer structures in

a wide range of dimensions related to dip pen nanolithography, electron beam

direct or ultraviolet lithography, thereby creating significant demand for