The world market for electron and scanning probe microscopes will exceed $2.1 billion a year by 2017, due in part to increasing demand in the healthcare sector for precise, high-resolution imagery, according to a release by MarketResearch.com.
The recession stifled demand in the semiconductors end-user sector, the largest user of advanced microscopes, but demand in the life sciences and healthcare sectors continued to grow.
The areas driving future demand are semiconductors and electronics, industrial, MEMS, biomedical, pharmaceuticals and research in nanotechnology and nanomaterials.
Read the MarketResearch.com release on microscopes.
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