Rapid growth of optical silicone accelerate the application of LED in lighting

Review: over the past few years, due to the LED power, output, efficiency and reliability of the steady improvement of the Chinese market in the field of general lighting applications in the increasingly fierce competition in solid-state lighting. Market analysts recently predicted that by 2017, China's LED lighting market CAGR will reach 24%, far more than the compound annual growth rate of the lighting market by 5.6%. Moreover, LED lighting market share will almost double, from 9.6% to 18%.

The rapid growth of optical silicone accelerates the application of LED in the field of illumination

Rapid growth of optical silicone accelerate the application of LED in lighting

China's national ban on incandescent bulbs last year accelerated the demand for more efficient lighting in the field of LED. This trend of growth in demand is not only a great benefit to the optical silicone, but also prompted LED designers to develop high transparency, excellent plasticity and thermal stability of LED solutions. For example, high folding LED packaging can help Chinese customers in optimizing the efficiency of a new generation of LED lighting, but also eliminates the high power LED chip high input. Compared with methyl silicone products, the phenyl silicone sealant has a light output of about 7% higher than that of the LED chip, shell or input power.

At the same time, phenyl silicone packaging material to provide a higher degree of tightness than the methyl material, which can effectively protect the silver plated LED electrode to avoid moisture and corrosion, prevent material blackening. As the number of these electrodes increases with the increase of the number of LED reflectors, a strong air tightness helps maintain the performance and reliability of the LED output. In addition to a high degree of transparency and thermal stability, optical silicone excellent plasticity has also promoted the application of new design concepts in the field of general lighting, thereby contributing to the rapid growth of China's LED market. These advanced silicone technology contribute to the development of optical transparent or bright white reflective coating, and thus accelerate the innovation of various components, including two new optical devices, light guide and white reflection components and remote phosphor. Its excellent plasticity and is also beneficial to the structural design of LED to more complex shape, micro optical structure, bottom groove and thin wall thickness, all of these organic polymer or glass, are difficult or impossible to achieve.