Nanjing crystal energy rose 160 kg sapphire single crystal furnace will be out of shape

Southern news network news, Apple's new Iwatch equipped with sapphire screen, becoming a major selling point. Sapphire is second only to diamonds, and artificial sapphire single crystals are widely used in LED and smart phones. Nanjing Jing l Energy Equipment Co. Ltd. aimed at the market demand, to attract international top technical talent, developed China's first 85 kg sapphire single crystal furnace, greatly improving the efficiency of sapphire crystal growth.

Nanjing crystal energy equipment Co., Ltd. General Manager Li Hui began in 2011, when it is engaged in equipment, technical services. Domestic enterprises to buy foreign sapphire single crystal furnace, we provide business consulting and equipment technology assessment." Li Hui said, contact with the industry found that foreign equipment, although expensive, but some of the use is not very good. "One of the most expensive single crystal ovens for foreign companies will sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and there will be minimum purchase lines, such as less than 48 units, not for 80."." Li Hui said, some enterprises bite the teeth to buy, but the actual production of crystal finished rate of 40%, can not reach. According to his contacts, four or five enterprises in the country lost $more than 200 million in 1 - 2 years.

Can you develop a single crystal furnace with lower cost and higher efficiency? With this in mind, Li Hui set up Nanjing crystal energy equipment Co., Ltd. in 2012, and then set up an overseas research and development center in New York, USA, attracting 4 well-known experts in related fields. "New York distributes well-known companies and university research institutions in the field of crystal materials, and their research is at the world's leading level.". Where the research and development center is located, you can keep up to the cutting edge of technology and digest it." Li Hui said, the United States R & D center experts to the most advanced thermal field design and crystal growth control technology, organic transplant to sapphire crystal growth, and successfully developed 85 kg grade single crystal furnace. With this furnace, 85 kilograms of crystals can be grown at one time. "In 2013, the domestic use of 35 kilograms of single crystal furnace, we are the first to produce 85 kg class enterprises." Li Hui said, and then compared with similar products abroad, the price has been reduced by nearly half.

Two years later, crystal Sheng energy has sold 85 kilograms of single crystal furnace 100 units. The top five LED chip manufacturers in the country are using the device to produce sapphire crystals for LED substrate materials. Through continuous technological innovation, the current level of 85 kilograms of crystal furnace and add a lot of advantages: the use of the temperature gradient control technology, the crystal growth cycle is shortened from 20 days to 16 days, the original 15; the use of new materials to improve the insulation effect than ordinary products, equipment operation and saving 20% etc..

Today, more demand for sapphire crystals comes from smartphones than with LED substrate materials. "To Apple mobile phones, for example, now touch key, camera glass are using sapphire crystal.". If the future mobile phone screen also use sapphire crystal, then the output will be greatly increased." Li Hui told reporters, two years ago, Apple Corp on the rise of energy, talked about cooperation, hoping to supply them with more capacity of the single crystal furnace. Through technical research, last year, crystalline energy has successfully developed 125 kilograms of single crystal furnace, and in the country for the first time sold 15 units. Li Hui also revealed that soon after the company's 160 kg class super large capacity single crystal furnace can prototype out. "If the 160 kilogram single crystal furnace is in mass production, we can establish long-term cooperation with the Apple Corp."." Li Hui says.

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