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effective manner? Pearsall is confident: “Does the LED industry in Europe have any idea that it will need such a production capacity? Of course it does,” he told OLE. “Osram Opto Semiconductors has built an LED plant in Germany that is capable of churning out 4 billion LEDs per month. That’s why I am optimistic about the prospects of the European optoelectronics industry.” Pearsall clearly believes that, given the appropriate support and investment, Europe can have a prosperous future and maintain its leading research position. And it’s not just lighting where Europe has a critical strength – in the use of lasers as manufacturing tools, firms such as Trumpf and Rofin Sinar dominate the market, meaning that 50% of world sales of laser-manufacturing equipment go to Europe. Another booming sector is European machine vision. This has grown at 10–30% per year in the past decade and looks set to continue to rise in the foreseeable future. In addition, the market for next-generation displays based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is forecast to grow at 40% per year over the next five years. In this area, Philips, Merck, Covion, Cambridge Display Technology and numerous other European firms are leading the development of materials and the fabrication processes that are needed. Action needed In all of these areas, industry leaders are now convinced that action is needed to help to ensure that Europe fights off the strong competition from abroad in the future. “Only a coordinated approach can make use of the economies of scale necessary to sustain economic production in Europe and reach the critical mass of investment needed to address the big markets of the 21st century,” states the report. “Without strong European leadership in photonics technologies, many industries will be left vulnerable to strong competition from the US and Asia.” At the time of writing, EPIC is waiting to hear back from the EC to see if the idea is to be implemented and it will be having a meeting with commissioners later this month. EPIC also hopes that by bringing firms together at its regular workshops, it can also help to address the situation. Founded in 2003, the EPIC consortium now has 55 members and last held a workshop on photonics in the automobile industry last November (OLE January 2005 p23). It has a second on OLEDs planned for June in Cambridge, UK. Part of the aim of these workshops is to draw up technology roadmaps for the different application areas where European photonics is being used. “I don’t want to underestimate the difficulty in writing a good roadmap, but we are well on the way to doing it, sector by sector,” said Pearsall. “I hope that, by the end of 2006, we will have something that starts to look like a photonics roadmap organized by major application areas, which identifies the opportunities and the technical developments that need to happen.” One of Pearsall’s chief concerns is the state of the European optical communications industry, which suffered during the recent INTERVIEW telecoms downturn. “This area has been devastated. The threat is that a tremendous amount of know-how and skills that were developed in Europe to pursue this technology are being lost with the downturn of business,” Pearsall commented. “We want to find ways to help businesses to convert their technology to other applications.” ■ Further information: the report “Photonics for the 21st century” can be downloaded from EPIC’s website at http://www.epic-assoc.com. OLE • May 2005 • optics.org 25
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