TOYOTA developed the next generation of LED products

Recently, TOYOTA (Toyota Gosei) successfully developed a next-generation LED products, the brightness of the 6000 to 12000 lumens, up to 3 times the current product, will be able to easily create LED lighting brightness comparable to mercury lamp. According to reports, the TOYOTA synthesis of LED products to be made to LED (Gallium nitride; GaN) as a substrate material, the length and width of only 1mm, GaN substrate thickness of only a few hundred m, each of the brightness of about 400 lumens.

To avoid price competition for the industry and the Taiwan and South Korea, TOYOTA synthetic LED business focused on the use of mobile phone and laptop in small / high performance LED products, however, because Taiwan and South Korea manufacturers catching up, make the price competition is becoming increasingly fierce, so TOYOTA intends to use the synthesis using GaN as the substrate of LED the product to get rid of Taiwan and South Korea manufacturers chase. According to Nikkei reported that the price of GaN substrate material up to about 3 times the sapphire substrate, so the cost is still the biggest issue of TOYOTA production capacity of these GaN LED.

TOYOTA Taiwan synthetic crystal electric partners, in addition to a licensing agreement with crystal electric interaction, but also by the end of 2010, and TOYOTA electric and synthetic agents Taiwan twiggy (Twin Hill) to set up a joint venture in Taiwan, R & D, production and sale for LED.