Future LED lighting market will enter a period of rapid growth

After more than and 10 years of efforts, luminous efficiency of white light emitting diode in the laboratory has reached more than 200lm/W, and commercially available products have been reached more than 150lm/W, has exceeded the traditional incandescent lamp, energy-saving lamps and fluorescent lamps etc.. Governments will also be banned the use of incandescent lamp, compared with the LED bulb price with the traditional lighting source, has reached a competitive level, the next few years LED lighting market will enter a rapid growth period.

In 1997, Nichia published a white light emitting diode (LED), with global semiconductor lighting to achieve the possibility of hope, governments and enterprises attach great importance to. Semiconductor lighting can replace the traditional lighting source, in addition to energy saving, solve the energy shortage problem, and can bring huge business opportunities. After more than and 10 years of efforts, luminous efficiency of white light emitting diode in the laboratory has reached more than 200lm/W, and commercially available products have been reached more than 150lm/W, has exceeded the traditional incandescent lamp, energy-saving lamps and fluorescent lamps etc..

Governments will also be banned the use of incandescent lamp, compared with the LED bulb price with the traditional lighting source, has reached a competitive level, the next few years LED lighting market will enter a rapid growth period.

Future LED lighting market will enter a period of rapid growth

With many countries in the world began to ban incandescent bulbs, and reduce the LED lighting efficiency and price, LED has a landscape lighting, outdoor lighting, commercial lighting gradually penetrated into the field, and in the next few years will substantially replace incandescent bulbs become the main light source of home lighting. Of course, to replace the traditional lighting source, the optical efficiency of LED must constantly upgrade, not only more than incandescent lamp 10~15 lumens / watt, compact fluorescent lamp 40~60 lumens / watt, and even to go beyond the straight tube type fluorescent lamp 80~100 lumens / watt.

According to the updated U.S. Department of energy solid state lighting R & D product roadmap, in 2013, the efficiency of cold white LED to reach 180 lumens / watt or more, while the warm white light to reach 150 lumens / watt or more. The efficiency of LED package has significant progress in the past few years, most of the 2005 light white LED package only about 60 LM / W, but this year the majority of manufacturers have the ability to reach 150 LM / W.

LED lighting to be popular, in addition to the LED to enhance the efficiency of light, the more important factor is the price to be competitive. According to the U.S. Department of state's solid state lighting R & D product roadmap, in 2013 the price per thousand lumens of cold white light to less than $4, while the warm white light LED per thousand lumens price of less than $5.1. And by 2020, regardless of the cold white or warm white LED packaging components per thousand lumens price to fall to less than $1, that is, the price per thousand lumens is about 1/5.

This is a very big challenge.