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5G has been deployed fast globally with an expected market of $720 bn by 2030. The most revolutionary aspect of 5G networks relies on the high frequency 5G technologies. mmWave 5G devices will use low-loss materials to reduce the transmission loss at both board and package level. This gives rise to the low-loss materials market, which will be over $110m by 2031, with CAGR of 28% from 2026 to 2031.

By 2031, electric vehicle charging infrastructure will become a $65 billion market. In this report, we offer a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of charging infrastructure for passenger cars and bus, truck and van fleets. While conductive charging takes the lead now and in the future, the report also explores the technology and application of emerging charging methods such as inductive, capacitive, robotic, wireless and battery swapping. Market forecasts out to 2031 include historic data to 2015, and are split by public & private chargers, regions, power class and vehicle subsegments.

Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Buses 2021-2040 addresses the market drivers of electrification, how the bus is being rapidly reinvented and the outlook for pure battery electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains in buses, including the prospects for fuel cell buses. This report presents IDTechEx's new regional forecasts for electric city bus uptake, reflecting different rates of fleet electrification across China, Europe, the US, India, and the rest of the world.

The report provides a clear and objective picture about the hydrogen economy, giving the reader a perspective of the current status and future development of hydrogen as an energy carrier. A complete description of the different fuel cells and electrolysers, will allow the reader to understand the chemical principles, materials involved, technical limits and future opportunities of each technology, including the main players on the market.

Digital Water 2020-2030 covers the sensor market in water and wastewater treatment and pipe network markets. This comprehensive overview of the different sensor types, companies, strategies and use cases can provide insightful solutions to the digital water industry. This information is then used to forecast the market growth over the coming decade up to 2030, where it is expected to grow to over $2Bn.

海平面上升：淡水资源枯竭。是时候在不造成全球变暖或本地有毒气体排放的前提下进行海水淡化了，而且，离网意味着更实惠、更安全、部署更广泛。2028 年，离网零排放海水淡化的市场规模将跃升至 350 亿美元。这份 180 页的报告列出了详细的全新信息图，分析了海水淡化及其未来的技术路线图，并预测 2028 年市场将快速增长并达到 350 亿美元规模。报告还揭示了全新的零排放离网发电技术和除盐技术所带来的成本降低和广泛用途。

The vibrant market for zero-emission microgrids embraces kW to MW driven by industrial, commercial, island and military applications. New water, solar, wind technologies promise many houses becoming ZE battery microgrids then ships, smart roads. A huge $350 billion market is being created with remarkable opportunities for materials, components, systems, software. Only this 230 page report with 80 new infograms and graphs assesses and predicts it all from 2020-2040.

学习市场驱动因素、100 多家组织的最佳实践、即插即用型微电网、分布式微电网和汽车微电网知识。对于外部零排放、离网 ZEOG 充电来说，这种整体方法是成功的，从一个很少被关注的研究领域中发现了巨大的市场。例如，由于大多数人住在城市公寓里，IDTechEx 发现第一个巨大机会不是汽车，而是越野工业车辆。后来还发现了许多其他机会，包括一个利用太阳能房屋给汽车充电的巨大市场。

近年来，人们对立体农业的热情持续高涨。通过精细控制生长环境和使用立体种植系统，立体农业在城市人口中心实现了比传统农业高出数百倍的产量。但这样一个能源密集型的产业真的能与传统农业竞争吗？本报告检视了立体农场背后的技术，提供了对市场机会的洞察，同时概述了这项创新技术的未来。

该报告详尽地介绍了未来十年将用于监测室内和室外空气质量的关键技术。在整个会议期间，将提供一系列细分市场的十年预测，并分析关键趋势和未满足的需求。IDTechEx 预计，几个新市场的销售额将大幅增长，主要是在移动设备、空气净化器和可穿戴设备领域。

此报告揭示了结合电子、电气、光导发光功能的新材料，预测将有 2000 亿美元的机遇。单片柔性手机。仿生人。太阳能汽车从不充电。有一种选择 - 模内电子组件 - 可以减少 95% 的汽车零件：制造多功能的单件电子组件。文中章节详细介绍了如何取代非智能的承重结构，甚至包括道路、建筑物、窗户的该等结构。

IDTechEx 对 106 家开发独特 3D 激光雷达技术的参与者进行了全面的分析，主要针对 ADAS 和自动驾驶交通工具市场。我们基于采访的公司简介和公司背景涵盖全部 106 家参与者。预测分为六种新兴激光雷达技术和四类交通工具。到 2030 年，全球自动驾驶交通工具 3D 激光雷达市场的规模将增至 54 亿美元，其中 MEMS 激光雷达将成为最大的细分市场。

低功耗广域网 (LPWAN) 以多种方式发展起来。一方面，市场上有尚未拿到牌照的低功耗通信技术，其中一些专有程度很高，且专注于特定的应用，而另一方面，大型电信企业已经通过低功耗技术扩大了他们的蜂窝网络。有许多类型可用，不同的政府和地区推行不同的类型。

智能玻璃是一种电活性玻璃，主要用于汽车、建筑和航电窗户，10 年内需求将增长到 11 亿美元。它一般用于电子遮蔽，代替物理遮光，或供半透明光伏窗户局部发电。作为唯一一份涵盖技术和市场的全面报告，它将对价值链上的每一个环节均有所帮助，包括建筑和汽车设计师、销售商和用户。

道路及其周边将大量发电，为自动除冰、除雪、电动汽车充电、互动照明、结构健康监测等供电。这样将提高安全性、速度，以及空气和水的质量，实现节省，并衍生 1000 亿美元的新业务。此报告审视相关技术、参与者和机遇，对未来十年进行了预测，并绘制了未来 20 年的路线图。

城市正在摒弃影响恶劣的备用电力，仅将昂贵、腐朽、不稳定的国家电网作为备用，然后利用太阳能、风电和水电实现能源独立。了解对 2050 年之前的全局展望，包括 10MW 的太阳能停车场和充电处、太阳能窗户和道路、转换道路和路径移动、空中风能等，它们全部由博士级分析师通过清晰的新信息图、路线图和预测进行仔细的评估、对比和预测。

Robot shuttles are a new form of transport. Learn $20 billion sales in 2041 plus ample service income. Symmetrical, silent, zero-emission, large sliding doors for wheelchairs and fast entry and exit, they are designed for smart cities, replacing many under-utilised vehicles from school buses to manned taxis and buses. What other multipurposing? Winners? Affordable by the poor, accessible by the disabled and eliminating congestion, there is a roadmap to more.

Smart city investment is rising to trillions of dollars. Advanced materials are key with demand rising to around $400 billion yearly. Just "solar everywhere" will be around $35 billion and involve many new materials. The quest includes energy, food and water independence and one vehicle replacing ten types. Solving the materials challenges from 3D printed buildings to 6G communications, self-healing and fragile wave power will create billion-dollar new businesses.

Uniquely, this commercially-oriented report explains how the cement and concrete industry can transform to zero-emission and rapid profitable growth from new formulations, products and capabilities. It can open up many new markets such as multifunctional concrete (electrical, optical etc.) and 3D printed large structures free of steel reinforcement. It can sell surplus zero emission electricity and its storage by leveraging site assets. Source is PhD level, multilingual IDTechEx analysts worldwide.

Printed sensors are a rapidly growing technology that offer low-cost processing, flexible thin-film form factor and large area sensing, making them suitable for emerging applications such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, continuous health monitoring and more. This market research report covers the technology and applications of printed photodetectors, piezoresistive and piezoelectric pressure sensors, strain sensors, temperature sensors, printed electrodes, biosensors, and capacitive touch sensors.

IDTechEx has been studying 5G-related topics for many years and we have just released our latest version of the 5G market research report "5G Technology, Market and Forecasts 2022-2032". This report is built on our expertise, covering the latest 5G development trends, key player analysis, and market outlook. Key aspects in this report include mmWave technologies progress, open radio access network (Open RAN) development, and detailed regional analysis of 5G status and future roadmap in 5 key regions: U.S., China, Japan, South Korea, Europe.

Long range cars strongly attract because real range can be half and we all detest on-street charging misery. This report analyses how long-range cars will become the norm creating major commercial opportunities for solar bodywork, lightweighting, simplification, new components and improved battery hardware and software. See the world's first sales and technology roadmaps for 2021-2041. For example, in 2027, premium cars without 650 miles (over 1000km) range will be shunned.

The Redox Flow Battery market report includes a substantial change in RFB market size, based on scientific assumptions. IDTechEx calculated the Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) for Lithium-ion battery and redox flow battery systems, to prove the assumptions made in the report. Large adoption of variable renewable energies will push the energy sector for more energy storage capacity. IDTechEx forecasts a multibillion market for RFB in 2031

Beyond lithium-ion batteries and pumped hydro, new stationary energy storage even provides faster charge-discharge and 6-month seasonal storage of solar. New gravity, air, hydrogen, thermal, supercapacitor and flywheel stationary storage are compared to emerging forms of battery including for smart cities. Beat mainstream lithium-ion on price and performance. Winners, losers, 20-year roadmaps, forecasts new multi-billion dollar businesses. Gaps in the market. At last, you can understand it all.

Understand rocketing growth of zero-emission aircraft evenly split between conventional and vertical takeoff and landing in 2041 but very different in the meantime. Why are current manufacturers of aircraft up to 100 seats highly vulnerable to the newcomers? What are the most disruptive technologies and developers? Understand why battery wins but fuel cell has a place. Windows of opportunity for hybrids and retrofits, best practice, dead ends and detailed forecasts.

Boost your sales of devices and battery replacement technologies by understanding battery-free IoT, implants, wearables, smart buildings. Ride the wave of new enablers from 6G Communications wireless information and energy transfer WIET to triboelectrics, pseudocapacitors, skin biofuelcells and plastic film all-in-one multimodal harvesting with storage. Learn how the research pipeline is even leading to batteryless cellphones, smart watches, body area networks and $121 billion in 2041

Technical and market investigation of the major electrolyzer systems, allowing a deep understanding of future market development.

6G communications can be a trillion dollar business only if billions of dollars of Reprogrammable Intelligent Surfaces RIS are deployed everywhere. Read the first report to assess costs, practicality and enabling materials, technologies and players for mass production. See area and dollar forecasts to 2041 - a multi-billion dollar opportunity. Understand how they will affordably improve to give greater user benefits. See the timelines, new infograms, graphs and many images.

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The 6G opportunity for devices and materials will be 10-100 times 5G. Understand what metamaterials, graphene, new lll-V compounds, polymers and more are needed. One billion dollars hit the table in 2020, kick starting 6G communications. New hardware is as vital as software. Funding escalates to widespread deployment around 2030. Device and materials suppliers need to be in at the start - right now. Only this report maps the huge opportunity.