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New market report features current and five year trends in microscopy and imaging |
Three key trends emerging over the past five years:
- Digital imaging has risen to 75%
- Confocal microscopy has doubled to 37%
- TEM use is back to the three-quarter mark, after nearly a 20 point drop in the late ‘90s
- The spectroscopy/microscopy convergence is still not making it across the bridge into microscopy: only 15% of this audience use FTIR and only 4% use Raman Confocal, opening a prime opportunity for IR manufacturers
MME has conducted this survey at M&M for the past eleven years and has found that, of all the tradeshows on its calendar, this venue provides the best cross-section of the highly heterogeneous world of microscopy and related imaging. Attendees come from biological and materials sciences and from both industrial and academic facilities. The only major segment represented in small numbers is the semiconductor niche. About a third each of the survey participants categorize themselves as lab managers/directors or researchers, with professors and technicians rounding out the mix. Although M&M is often thought of as “just an electron microscopy meeting”, MME’s research reveals the breadth of techniques used (chart available on request), making this meeting the ideal location for investigating this market in broad terms. MME’s report encompasses the results of 46 questions, analyzed from four different perspectives: Title, Type of Laboratory, Type of Work, and Discipline. For easy reference, each perspective is presented in its own chapter. Additionally, the report features a readership survey, segmented by technology, which targets the publications used most widely by users of each microscopy and imaging technology when evaluating equipment for purchase.
For further details visit www.MicroscopyMarket.com and click on the link for “M&M 2001 Market Survey”
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