Time：2015/10/22 12:56:39

 Sensor industry is widely recognized as a promising high-tech industry, which is a high technology content, good economic returns, penetration ability, broad market prospects and other characteristics of world attention. Its applications involving machinery manufacturing, industrial process control, automotive electronics, electronic communication products, consumer electronics products and special equipment. World sensor varieties reach more than 30,000 species, the United States, Japan, Britain, France, Germany and the CIS and other countries regarded as one of the key technologies of sensor technology key national development.
Development Status and Trends
Currently, there are around 40 countries engaged in the development of the sensor, the production and application development, more than 6,000 research and development institutions. Among them, the United States, Japan, Russia and other countries stronger, they established, including physical, chemical, biomass of the three categories of the sensor industry, R & D more than 4,000 units, more than 20,000 kinds of products, the application of a wide range of products scale production, large enterprises annual production capacity of several ten million to hundreds of millions of pieces. There are relatively well-known sensor manufacturers Honeywell (Honeywell) company, Foxboro (Foxboro) company, ENDEVCO, British Bell & Howell Company, Solartron company, Philips, Russia Thermodynamic Instruments | Instruments are like.
World sensor market is growing at a steady growth trend forward, is expected in mid-2003 to 2008 the average growth rate of 3.7% in 2008 will increase to $ 50.6 billion. While taking into account such factors as the rise of the sensor lower prices and unpredictable emerging application areas, the actual growth rate during 2003-2008 is likely to reach 4.5% -5%.
On a global scale, the sensor market is the fastest growing automotive market demand, accounting for second place is the process control market, prospects are communications market. Those with high precision, fast response, high reliability, wide temperature range, miniaturization, micro-power consumption and passive, intelligent, integrated, networked sensors will become the next darling of the market.
Frost & Sullivan Company of the development of the world kind of sensor market were as follows Forecast: fiber optic sensors will grow from 1998's $ 175 million in 2008 to $ 350 million; a temperature sensor market will grow in 1998 of 1.74 billion US dollars in 2006 to 332.6 billion dollars, an increase of 7.4%, this growth rate will continue; semiconductor sensors market from 1998 of $ 12.6 billion in 2008 to grow to $ 21.8 billion. MEMS sensors will become one of the world's fastest-growing product, its reliability, technology and high added value, the market rate of return higher than traditional industries.
Nanotechnology sensor
Sensor material is an important foundation sensor technology, materials science advances enable sensor technology becomes more mature, more and more types. Nano-materials produced by the sensor has a large interface that provides a lot of material channel on-resistance is very small, is conducive to miniaturization of the sensor. Nanotechnology include nano-chemical sensors / biosensors, nano-gas sensors and other types of nano-sensors (pressure, temperature and flow, etc.). Development of nano-sensor manufacturers including Agilent (Agilent), Boeing, DowCorning, IBM, LockheedMartin, Motorola and Samsung, as well as emerging companies like Ambri and Nanomix this.
NanoMarketsLC recently released a report, forecast 2008 global nanotechnology sensor market will grow to $ 2.8 billion, by 2012 the market size is expected to reach $ 17.2 billion. The main application areas including medicine and health care, military and homeland security, industrial control and robotics, networking and communications, environmental monitoring.