A piece of paper to help you find the fulcrum leveraging UV LED Market

LED Reuters] LED traditional application of growing space is limited, UV LED to the industry to bring full of imagination. Some people with foresight, who's the courage to look far ahead from a high plane active layout, some people overcautious, reluctant, others in the eyes see half believe and half doubt.

There is no denying that UV LED is also facing many bottlenecks. In general, all with epoxy resin glue filled LED chip package, but epoxy resin in the ultraviolet performance deterioration, so, how to develop by ultraviolet light excitation fluorescent material and not due to the light and packaging material performance deterioration. In addition, heat resistance and anti ultraviolet packaging materials research, ultraviolet LED light efficiency, deep UV LED devices process and packaging, deep UV LED Application module development and so on, these are the UV LED of the technical issues to be resolved.

However, there is no doubt that UV LED will make the LED industry, as well as the level of our technology and healthy living disruptive change. Yole data show that the UV LED market has maintained a very rapid growth in the past seven or eight years, from $20 million in 2008 to $90 million in 2014, a compound annual growth rate of up to 28.5%. UV LED for the replacement of traditional UV huge market space. LEDinside said that in 2014 the overall UV market reached $815 million, of which UV LED output value of $122 million, accounting for the overall UV market rate of only 15%.

Give me a fulcrum, I will move the earth. Large scale UV LED market also requires a fulcrum. Fortunately, we have been aware of the fulcrum, the fulcrum in front of us is becoming more and more clear, we are more and more able to grasp the fulcrum.

From space to ground

The harsh space environment is often the ultimate test of a new technology. UV LED fully qualified for the space environment test, sterile space station has exclusive use of UV LED. American Sensor Electronic Technology sensor electronics technology Co., Ltd. (SETi), as a global leader in UV-B and UV-C LED, took the lead in the application of UV LED technology in space. Violeds sterilization technology SETi developed by NASA for use in space on the space station, can carry out disinfection fast surface, liquid and air to the space station, space water supply system of the sterilization rate as high as 99.99%.

SETi President Remis Gaska has said that the application of deep UV LED technology in space shows that the technology is maturing. Violeds disinfection technology has begun to carry out the industrialization and commercialization of the ground. 2015, South Korea was a popular hepatitis C. SETi, the largest shareholder of Viosys, provided the space station's disinfection technology, Violeds, to the South Korean Medical Research Institute, which found that 99.9% of hepatitis C in Seoul was killed after being irradiated for about 5 minutes.

Expected sterilization technology Violeds is widely used in clinical practice, will significantly reduce infectious diseases, preventing the spread of the virus; the technology can be applied to biological technology equipment and medical diagnostic equipment, skin and other medical treatment; and the technique can be extended to daily life, but difficult to apply to disinfection disinfection, household appliances can not be used by routine cleaning. Soap and water or chemical disinfection.

Seoul Viosys also cooperate with the Swedish research and development of water purification products Watersprint company. Violeds sterilization technology for water purification products Watersprint system of water control technology based on the combination of Viosys and Seoul, to keep the water clean, filter bacteria, viruses and protozoa, aimed at the world's 750 million people lack access to safe drinking water water purification systems. At the end of this year, the Lund University in Sweden has developed a water purifying device using solar charging and UV LED technology, LED technology and intelligent software by UV and Wi-Fi combined to purify water, make access to safe drinking water in rural bangladesh.

It happens that there is a similar case Not long ago, the British AquiSense technology company developed the UV-C band LED module was selected in the international space field BIOWYSE project to use, will ensure that astronauts drinking water clean and disinfection. AquiSense pointed out, will work together with the world heavyweight LED manufacturers, to create products disinfection equipment with high efficiency, and not only for water purification system, including air, surface application and other fields, is the direction of.

From military to civilian

For high standards and high challenges of the military environment, UV LED also has a good performance. In UV LED military applications, SETi is still the industry pioneer. In 2012, SETi developed an independent portable water purification system for the U.S. navy. The system has the function of water quality monitoring and disinfection, which can be used to obtain drinking water from any flowing water source when small combat soldiers live in the wild.

In the early years of a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, SETi's UV LED water treatment system demonstrated a strong bactericidal effect, resulting in the LED industry and other related areas of intense concern. For the military water purification system, SETi said, can monitor the water quality and improve the system efficiency of UV LED technology, reduce the demand for chemical disinfectants such as chlorine and iodine, the water purification system more portable and more healthy.

UV LED water purification system can also be used for water treatment plant. UV LED has great potential in the field of water purification, can enhance the safety and durability of water purification system, and reduce energy consumption.