LED market growth in the new era has seen Ni end

From the Strategies Unlimited Bob SteELe in Strategies in Light (SIL) report to the participants made 2010 conference and Exhibition practice of the opening speech, after a year of market change radically, 2009 to achieve annual net profit growth of 5%, high brightness LED market is entering a new period of growth. The application of LCD backlight and LED lighting is expected to drive the LED market to achieve 50% growth in 2010. Since 11 years ago, Steele planning each session of the SIL, and for each SIL conference to do the theme of the report and market forecasts, has been tracking and reporting the development of the LED market for many years. He has retired in March 31st of this year, but will still be a contract consultant for PennWell, engaged in the development of several projects SIL conference.

SIL this year is the annual conference 11, held in California on Santa Clara, high brightness LED market and LED lighting two theme change. Lighting theme is Strategies Unlimited Bhandarkar before doing a semiconductor solid state lighting (SSL) market trend review opened in. This year, the new semiconductor solid state lighting Investor Forum, during which 12 companies to venture capitalists and other potential investors to report their own research and development of technology. Packaging related agenda includes four half day workshop (Workshop) and two half day short course (Tutorial), the show brings together more than 90 exhibitors and nearly 3000 registered visitors. Another highlight of the event is to announce the next generation Luminaires (Next Generation) competition results.

LED market cycle

Senior Adams analyst from Canaccord Jed Dorsheimer discussed the LED market cycle issues. The first round of cycle began in the first few years of this century, mainly by the mobile handset push, LED used to illuminate the keyboard, then as backlight color screen mobile phone. The substantial increase in LED manufacturing resulted in overcapacity in 2004-2005. But in this cycle to promote the improvement of the performance of LED and the decline in prices, which in turn created the second round of the LED cycle, that is, as the current size of the notebook and large-size TV LED backlight.

Based on the rapid growth of the (flat) TV market, Dorsheimer said the LED industry from the beginning of this year will experience a significant lack of capacity, by 2012 LED chip gap will reach 700-1000 billion. Need to invest hundreds of MOCVD capacity, and sapphire substrate should also be adequate supply. Dorsheimer believes that in accordance with the current trends, the future will lead to 30% of the excess capacity of LED, the need for one to two years of digestion cycle; 2014-2016 production capacity will not be much growth. History will repeat itself, due to the decline in LED prices and performance improvement, will help the industry to the next round of the cycle, but the driving factor is the lighting.

Future LED applications

There are two reports boldly looking forward to the future of the world will show what kind of innovative LED applications. For example, Avnet technical director Cary Eskow discusses the use of LED in the field of medical and psychological physiology. He put forward the potential application of LED in medical diagnostic endoscopy. According to his report, by adjusting the color temperature of the two or three color LED, which will improve the ability of doctors to identify different organizations. Eskow also suggests that LED can be used to adjust the physiological cycle of the human body, so as to treat multiple physiological functions, including sleep and wakefulness. Controlled Blu ray LED can make people more sober, without the help of drugs or caffeine can improve work efficiency.