Joint production of China's first official LED city lighting demonstration area debut

Due to energy conservation and environmental protection and other advantages, LED semiconductor lighting has become the world industries, the focus in the academic circles. The end of 2, Tianjin Economic Development Zone (TEDA) announced plans to join the LEDCity, China's first LED city lighting demonstration zone. TEDA and CREE (CREE), Tianjin University of Technology, semiconductor lighting engineering research and development center to further explore and promote LED lighting applications, and promote the development of Tianjin semiconductor lighting industry.

With luminous efficiency improvement and cost reduction, LED is extended to general lighting from the backlight application. However, due to the high cost and social awareness is not high, the current LED lighting is still in the early stages of development. In order to promote LED lighting, the well-known LED chip maker Cree company introduced a green lighting action to establish LED global city lighting demonstration area plan - LEDCity, by the local government and LED manufacturers to jointly promote in all municipal infrastructure in the promotion and deployment of LED lighting technology, in order to save energy, protect the environment, reduce maintenance costs and to improve the quality of lighting, and public education.

Cree company marketing vice president ChrisJames TEDA said: "we are very pleased to become LED city lighting of the participants, the first to start LED become China city lighting demonstration area. We encourage other Chinese cities and universities to join the ranks of LED lighting to help reduce the world's energy consumption, and through innovative design and production, in order to speed up the application of this new technology in china. "

James LEDCity said that since the program was launched in February 2007, has been in North Carolina, Rowley City, Toronto city in Canada and the U.S. state of Michigan has announced to join Arne Bohr, LED for parking and other public lighting lamps. For example, Arne Boer city will be installed in the next two years more than 1 thousand LED street lights, is expected to save energy by 50%, only 3.8 years to recover the initial investment. The city promised, once the technical and economic conditions permit, in the indoor and outdoor all use LED lighting. Full implementation of LED lighting is expected to reduce the city's public lighting energy consumption, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2425 tons per year. Local power companies will use meters to measure the new LED street lights, in order to collect enough information to develop a new LED based price list.

Deputy director of TEDA Ai Yamin said that in 2007 the semiconductor lighting is used as one of the twenty key development projects in Tianjin City, at the same time also came in Tianjin in 11th Five-Year planning 12 major science and technology projects in the first place, TEDA will fully support the promotion and application of semiconductor lighting project, supporting the semiconductor lighting industry bigger and stronger. To this end, TEDA plans to build two platforms, is a platform for the transformation of semiconductor research and achievements, including, combining production of Tianjin University of Technology semiconductor lighting R & D center and LED city lighting demonstration area; two is the industrial base to form a semiconductor lighting. He stressed: TEDA not only to promote the application of LED lighting equipment, will also encourage and support the entire LED industry. Specifically, LED based materials, epitaxial wafers, chips, production equipment, packaging testing, light source, lamps, etc., as long as it is related to the LED, we are welcome, will give preferential policy support. "

This, China Lighting Appliance Association chairman Chen Yansheng said, in recent years, LED lighting applications in the country set off a climax, but there are still some blindness, hope TEDA can really as a LED lighting demonstration area, to explore the application of LED lighting is scientific and reasonable, to visit for the next few years in China LED study industry demonstration base.

As the LED city lighting demonstration zone construction, Tianjin semiconductor lighting R & D center industry has accumulated rich experience in the application. Dr. Niu Pingjuan professor of the center said that since 2002 began LED technology development, including the application of upstream and downstream of the epitaxial technology development of two parts, from the beginning of 2006 is strong in technology development and application LED lighting, walk in the forefront of the domestic. In the past two years, the Tianjin Polytechnic University new campus design, production and installation of about 1500 LED street in the center, about 2000 LED lamp installed in eight dormitory building, more than an annual saving of hundreds of thousands of.

Niu Pingjuan said, the second half of 2007 LED lighting upstream technology has a great breakthrough, such as PHILPS and Cree manufacturers launched more than 100 lumens / watt LED light source, LED light source with special advantages, making the overall optical efficiency of LED lamps than traditional products is improved, to promote LED lighting applications. She pointed out: LED lamps have begun to enter a wide range of indoor and outdoor lighting and many other areas, there is no large-scale start, mainly because of national standards and cost issues. "

Some unfortunately, the LED city lighting demonstration zone to start the ceremony, participate in the detailed planning of the project parties did not elaborate, let the participants of the industry and the media disappointed. Alliance national semiconductor lighting project Limei Tu said, very appreciated Tianjin has such a keen eye and fast pace, also hope that Tianjin can really summed up a lot of experience, in the future more domestic city support, it is regrettable that the Tianjin to become the first city China LED lighting demonstration area, what is the overall plan? What is the overall goal? What are the key technologies and applications? Is it possible to have a plan or outline published, so that many colleagues in the industry to support and participate in the Tianjin