Market size of nearly $100 billion UV LED into another battlefield!

2015, LED industry changes, lighting technology with each passing day, LED is gradually from blue ocean into the Red Sea, never mature to mature. In the new market environment, as a new generation of light source LED is experiencing the transformation and fission of the industry, LED companies actively seek new development strategies to differentiate to break the existing market structure.

Along with the industry profits continue to compress, Nobel laureate Amano Hiroshi studied at present not visible - ultraviolet LED is by virtue of high profit industry has been gradually attention, is following the white LED after another, with the application of new technology, gradually break the threshold of the future UV LED will have great potential for development, the market is very promising.

High profit driven UV LED market took off

Currently UV LED has begun to replace the traditional ultraviolet light source, gradually entered the two replacement market, which UV LED compared with the traditional lamp, with energy saving, less heat loss, long service life, as well as the curing wavelength is focus on other characteristics, favored by the market.

UV LED EBOHR product specifications can be divided into UV-A (UVA, 320~400nm), UV-B (ultraviolet 280~320nm) and UV-C (UV 280~320nm) three, at the wavelength of 380nm following is not visible, but its function beyond imagination, is now the band can be said to just the tip of the iceberg.

LEDinside research vice president Wu Yingjie said, in the UV LED market applications, UV-A has the largest market share, up to 90%. Its main application market for curing, related to nail, teeth, ink printing and other fields. In addition, UV-A also introduced commercial lighting, can make white clothes look more white. As for UV-B and UV-C is mainly used in sterilization, disinfection, medical light therapy, UV-B, which is mainly based on medical treatment, UV-C sterilization.

Although not visible LED market scale is limited, only suitable for application in certain areas, not with LED backlight lighting or large scale applications such as compared, but because of its technical difficulty and customization requirements and needs to cooperate closely with the system manufacturers and other factors, the entry threshold is high, the product gross margin is better than ordinary LED products. It is reported that, compared to the general LED, UV LED product price is higher than a few times, therefore, UV LED is also considered to be another important battlefield after the white LED lighting applications, attracting a large number of enterprises into the.

According to the French Research Institute Yole Developpement research report pointed out that the UV LED market grew from $20 million in 2008 to $90 million in 2014, a compound annual growth rate of up to 28.5%. TrendForce's green energy division LEDinside published 2015 LED market supply and demand trends and Outlook "also pointed out that in 2014 the overall UV market size of $815 million, of which UV LED value is 122 million dollars, accounting for the overall UV market ratio of 15%. With the use of UV LED UV curing technology to ink, adhesives and coating industry expansion, as well as UV-B, UV-C market continues to dig, it is estimated that the future of UV LED market will be further expanded.

At present, the major companies in the field of UV-A applications and technology has matured, the future of enterprises in the field of UV LED will be the primary goal of sustainable development of UV-B and UV-C market applications and technology upgrading. Yole Developpement said that the use of disinfection and purification in the next 3 years to become the key to achieve growth in the UV LED market.

Global manufacturers actively cut

From the global market, the UV LED developed mainly by Japan and Europe and leading manufacturers, LED manufacturers occupy a space for one person in Taiwan, mainland enterprises to actively explore, accompanied by considerable market returns, expected in the future there will be more and more enterprises begin to enter the LED.

In the international market, the United States SETi, Nichia belongs to early entrants, there have been many active layout including South Korea the bright younger generation, Seoul LGInnotek, Taiwan semiconductor, EPISTAR, Everlight, Lunda, Edison and other manufacturers. China package has deep UV Dachang Hongli hand LED market for many years Qingdao Jason, are actively preparing for the.

South Korea and Seoul semiconductor manufacturers LGInnotek launched earlier layout, has been the development of full wavelength UV LED products, including the Seoul semiconductor short wavelength can be 275nm; and with the United States SETi 340nm joint venture to produce the following products, its product life and brightness has been recognized. And its LED patented technology, including Acrich, nPola, UV LED and UV LED system applications, but also to obtain IEEE spectrum magazine certification, which is more competitive in the field of semiconductor UV LED.

Recently, the Seoul semiconductor subsidiary of SETi (Sensor Electronic Technology) proposed 50% stake in the merger proposal approved by the U.S. Department of defense. It is reported that the United States Department of defense agreed that the focus of this merger will help the company to expand the cause of UV LED.

It is understood that Seoul semiconductor will become the largest shareholder of SETi, to enhance its southern California UV LED chip shipments to the original three times. Its subsidiary Visoys since 2005 began to cooperate with SETi, commercialization of radiation wavelength below UV LED chip commercialization 350nm.

UV-C has been widely used in the field of UV-A applications and technology, the future will continue to develop the primary goal of UV-B and application technology. Lextar with one-stop production advantage, in addition to providing full range of LED chip UV, the development of more "package" and "modular design" and other additional features; which package UV LED has the advantages of small volume, easy to use in the application of minimum size; and customization module design can simplify the customers in the production on the degree of difficulty,