Crystal energy photoelectric China core counter attack, breaking the core patent oligarchs nightmare

The hardest! This is the evaluation of China's LED industry in 2012. Due to the blind expansion of the industry, the expansion of production, a large number of LED prices fell sharply decline in profits. This year, LED upstream production capacity utilization is only about 50%.

However, it is also in this year, crystal energy photoelectric sales of 500 million yuan. The next 2013, China LED showed warmer trend. However, despite the surge in product sales, but the price is still in a downward trend, the majority of companies are not profitable phenomenon.

On the other side, latticepower, this enterprise for 2012 to achieve full production and sales, inventory, in 2013 the market increases and raw material prices decline, the first half of the sales of 600 million yuan, the profit level in the same industry enterprises.

For this drama, the common saying is "contrarian growth", network terminology called "counter attack".

Counter attack, rely on what? With questions, the reporter came to the crystal photoelectric.

Running: LED technical field with the international giants of the patent mines

Located in the Nanchang high tech Zone crystal photoelectric, the reporter saw the company CEO Dr. Wang Min.

Counter attack, rely on independent core technology patents. Wang Min answered.

In the field of photovoltaic energy, China's LED industry mainly uses two technical solutions. One is called sapphire.

At present, the world's five largest LED manufacturers occupy the global market of about 70%, while the world's LED production by 70%. It is worrying that China's 99% LED companies are using sapphire technology route. In the field of sapphire LED technology, covered with a full range of patented mines.

In the context of the rapid development of the current LED industry, the international industry giants are quietly applying for a large number of core technology patents, and set up a very tight patent network, as a competitive weight.

LED industry patent wars have always been one after another, the global LED technology patent litigation has reached hundreds of cases. The prosecution is dominated by large international companies. They frequently launched patent war to balance future competitors, not only against LED related products manufacturers, distributors and agents will be prosecuted, play a deterrent role downstream customers, and strive to be a potential rival in the bud stage.

Once the market cake bigger, trouble will continue. An analysis of the industry, with the full spread of the trillion market, China will become the world's third largest LED lighting market. At that time, the scale of China's LED enterprises will gradually expand, the international giant LED patent litigation will be scheduled to.

Lack of core patent technology is the problem of all, is always plagued the development of China's LED industry nightmare. Wang Min said.

Breakthrough: seize the commanding heights of the core technology patents, to build LED core"

In order to get rid of the patent control of foreign giants, crystal energy must rely on independent core technology patents, to build LED China core".

To this end, latticepower innovative use of "Silicon" instead of sapphire or silicon carbide substrate for manufacturing gallium nitride based LED devices, and the first in the world will have independent intellectual property rights of the silicon substrate LED technology industrialization.

This is a new technology to rewrite the history of semiconductor lighting, with original technology. Evaluation of national 863 expert group of this technology is: "breaking the current monopoly of a Japanese company and a company in the United States sapphire silicon carbide semiconductor lighting technology monopoly situation, the formation of sapphire, silicon carbide, silicon based semiconductor lighting technology solutions, a situation of tripartite confrontation. "

Wang Min was carrying a small chip told reporters that the core components of the silicon substrate LED chip, a total of 30 layers (light emitting layer thickness is about 5 microns, is a normal human hair diameter 1/20), each layer is latticepower in the form of patent protection was very tight.

Crystalline silicon photovoltaic LED technology as the core, in the epitaxial growth, chip manufacturing, packaging and application of other areas of the layout of the patent network, the network covers Europe, America, Korea, Japan and other developed countries and regions LED. So far, crystal energy has been applied for patents and patents have more than 200, which is the core of China's LED patent "famine" era is precious.

At the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, 6 inch crystal silicon substrate LED chip photoelectric company exhibited, and the silicon substrate for high-power LED chip silicon substrate module combined latticelighting launched, attracted wide attention at home and abroad many professionals.

Moreover, with quick success and blind expansion of the enterprise is different, in terms of long-term strategy and short-term profitability, crystal photoelectric select the former. 2009 launch of silicon substrate low-power LED products, in 2012 the introduction of silicon substrate high-power LED products. In 2009, the LED industrial chain of silicon substrate was extended to the downstream application. In the middle of 2012, LED was introduced into the silicon substrate. 2009 sales of photovoltaic energy only about 5000000 yuan, in 2012 the silicon substrate LED industry chain sales reached $500 million.

Crystal energy is the product of technology innovation and industrial chain integration strategy, step by step forward.

Explosion: silicon substrate LED technology is low cost, comprehensive advantages

Compared with sapphire substrate and silicon carbide substrate technology, silicon substrate LED technology has the advantages of low cost, good heat dissipation and simple structure.

Crystal photoelectric technology staff told reporters that the chip is the most afraid of heat, the temperature increased by 10 degrees Celsius, its life will be reduced by half