Showa electrician launched 80lm/W four yuan red LED

Japanese manufacturers onquest (Showa Denko) announced the successful development of a super high brightness red line 4 yuan LED, the luminous efficiency can be compared with the company's existing products increased by 40% to 80 lm/W, is currently the world's highest level, have begun to sell. Four element LED is composed of aluminum, gallium, indium, phosphorus and other elements of the composition of the compound, currently mainly used in outdoor displays in the.

Ishida pointed out that through the electrode shape and configuration and the special treatment of the component surface, greatly improves the light extraction efficiency of LED, so that the number of LED could be used to reach a certain brightness, can achieve the effect of saving energy, is expected in the future will be used for vehicle range components (rear lamp and the interior lights) and thin LCD TV backlight.

The development will be the same day after onquest luminous efficiency of blue LED and green LED, plan in 2010 as the target, the LED business revenue since 2007 the size of 10 billion yen to 150~200 billion yen.