China's development of semiconductor lighting industry has a good opportunity

And human life, production is closely related to the field of lighting, may be pregnant with great changes. In recent years, the world's three largest lighting industry giants: General Electric, PHILPS, Rahm, and other semiconductor companies have joined the formation of semiconductor lighting company. Japan, the United States, the European Union, South Korea and other countries have launched a national semiconductor lighting plan. Conform to the trend of the development of high and new technology industry in the world. This year, the national semiconductor lighting project coordination leading group was set up in conjunction with the Ministry of science and technology, Ministry of information industry, the Ministry of construction, Ministry of education, China Light Industry Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences and local industries, jointly launched the semiconductor lighting project started. Magic semiconductor lamp

Semiconductor technology led to the first industrial revolution "micro revolution", is giving birth to another "lighting revolution". With the emergence of the third generation semiconductor materials GaN semiconductor technology, positive human dedication is another achievement: with semiconductor light emitting diode (LED) as a solid state lighting semiconductor light source, to replace the traditional incandescent lamp and fluorescent lamp.

Semiconductor light

In the same brightness, consumption is only 1 / 10 of the incandescent lamp power, and life is 100 times of incandescent lamp. 100 times what is the concept? One day, 6 hours, a lamp can be used for 50 years, and people can not use a lifetime of two lights.

"Brilliant glow. The moon, clouds, smoke and flame blurred from" this is the praise of people just come out of the lamp, and the semiconductor lamp is truly capture the rosy clouds, resplendent with variegated coloration which can emit different colors. With the improvement of people's living standard, the demand for environmental protection is getting higher and higher. Fluorescent lamp can not solve the problem of strobe, but this problem is not a semiconductor lamp, is the true meaning of "green lighting". Because the semiconductor lamp has the advantages of energy saving, long life, maintenance free, easy to control, environmental protection and other advantages, so the industry generally believe that as the semiconductor transistor replacement tube, semiconductor lamp to replace the traditional lamp is also represent the general trend.

For semiconductor light, red light, yellow light is low-end products, this lamp has achieved mass production, including China's most competitive production cost, has been used for road lighting, special lighting decoration etc.. Low cost, high brightness, high power white light is the high-end products. The United States recently developed a 5 Watt white light, China can produce 1.5 Watt white light. But the price is too high, more than ten times the incandescent lamp. Therefore, Japan, the United States, the European Union and other semiconductor lighting program started, one of the main direction is to reduce costs. They proposed a timetable for making the semiconductor lamp economically viable and large-scale alternative to incandescent light bulbs, roughly 2006 and 2007.

Program of the U.S. Department of energy, before and after 2010, the incandescent lamp and fluorescent lamp with semiconductor light instead of 55%, the annual savings of $35 billion. It is estimated that only 7 years later, in the United States, semiconductor lighting can form a large industry of $50 billion. Great opportunity

Development of semiconductor lighting industry in China a good opportunity. The reasons are: first, China has a huge lighting industry and lighting market. China is now the world's largest producer of lighting appliances and the second largest exporter of lighting appliances. Sales revenue reached 44 billion 500 million yuan last year, exports amounted to $4 billion 300 million. The United States is 600 billion kwh of electricity, accounting for about 20% of total electricity consumption. China's population is 5 times the United States, the current annual lighting power consumption of only 200 billion kwh, only 1/3 of the United States, accounting for about $12% of total U.S. electricity consumption. This means that the lighting industry in our country has a huge space for development. Building a well-off society in an all-round way, the masses of the new lighting is a strong demand.

Second, our country has some technological and industrial foundation in this field. China's independent development of the first light-emitting diode, the first light-emitting diode in the world only a few months later. Experts believe that, on the whole, the current level of technology in China's semiconductor light-emitting diode industry and developed countries only about 3 years. China has formed a relatively complete industrial chain from epitaxial wafer production, chip fabrication, device packaging to integrated applications. In particular, the package has a considerable share in the international market, China's production of red, yellow light semiconductor lamp in the world's most competitive, the advantage lies in the packaging.

Third, semiconductor lighting industry is a technology intensive and labor-intensive industries, more suitable for our national conditions, the risk and difficulty are lower than that of the microelectronics industry.

Mechanism innovation and policy pull

Development strategic target of China's semiconductor lighting industry is not only a breakthrough in a number of key technologies, to master a number of intellectual property rights, more importantly, to research and development and capital operation. At the same time, it is necessary to give play to the main role of enterprises, especially private enterprises, so that enterprises can truly become the main body of the project, the main body of implementation, the main beneficiaries. On the other hand, but also to promote the development of application. Semiconductor lighting has epitaxy, chip, packaging, application of several links, we must first grasp the market from the nearest end product applications, as soon as possible to achieve the industry. At present, the semiconductor lighting industry has not yet established international standards, to speed up the establishment of semiconductor lighting industry standards, the formation of China's independent intellectual property rights.

Integration of resources in the world, to build the industrial chain. Can not start all over the small and large, large and full. Semiconductor lighting industry is a global industry, we must adhere to the open, active participation in international division of labor, and make full use of domestic and foreign two markets, the two resources. Only so