Metamaterials: Technologies and Global Markets

Report Highlights

The global market for metamaterials is expected to grow from $307.7 million in 2015 to roughly $1 billion by 2020, and nearly $2.5 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.4% for the period of 2020-2025.

Report Includes

• An overview of the global market for metamaterials and related technologies.
• Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2014 and 2015, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2020 and 2025.
• Information about emerging metamaterials technologies and applications, and in more detail those technologies and applications that are most likely to achieve significant commercial sales in the future.
• A look at market drivers for each type of metamaterial as well as the hindrances to their successful commercialization.
• Evaluation of the market's dynamics, specifically growth drivers, restraints, and opportunities.
• Profiles of leading companies in the industry.

Report Scope

This report addresses the emerging global market for metamaterials, including the classes listed below. The common thread uniting this diverse group of materials is that they are all artificial materials with characteristics usually not found in nature, and they owe these characteristics to their structure rather than to their constituent element or elements.

• Artificial dielectrics.
• Negative refraction media.
• Active terahertz (THz) materials (i.e., metamaterials that respond magnetically to far-infrared or THz electromagnetic radiation).
• Chiral materials.
• Photonic crystals.
• Superconducting metamaterials.
• Extreme-parameter metamaterials (i.e., metamaterials with internal structures that have been modified or engineered on a molecular or nanoscale level to impart extraordinary strength, flexibility or other characteristics).
• Acoustic metamaterials.

The study format includes the following major elements.

• Executive summary.
• Definitions.
• General properties of metamaterials.
• Historical milestones in the development of metamaterials.
• Emerging and developmental metamaterials technologies and applications that demonstrate the greatest commercial potential through 2025.
• Detailed market estimates and projections for each application and material during the period from 2015 to 2025.
• General assessment of expected market trends in the longer term (i.e., 2020–2025).
• Patent analysis.

Analyst Credentials

Andrew McWilliams spent more than 25 years as a consultant with Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company and A.T. Kearny focused on manufacturing before segueing into research analysis. He has been covering myriad technology categories for BCC Research for more than 15 years. McWilliams has a BA from Princeton University and an MA from Harvard University. He has worked in more than 40 countries and he resides in the greater Boston area.