The first silicon based white light LED packaging products listed on sale

Toshiba Co (Toshiba Corporation) today announced that the company will start selling a white light emitting diode (LED) packaging products, provide a very cost competitive for general industrial and LED lighting solutions provider of products, to replace the current LED packaging products. Mass production will begin this month.

The production of LED chips is usually accomplished using expensive sapphire substrates on 2 to 4 inch wafers. Toshiba and BridgELux, Inc. has developed a process for producing a gallium nitride on silicon wafer in LED 200mm, and Toshiba has been applied to the process of northern Japan, a discrete device manufacturing plant - plus Toshiba Electronics (Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation) of the new production line. The use of a new production line packaging product production will begin this month.

Through the use of Toshiba and Bridgelux LED (GaN-on-Si) technology to produce silicon chips, Toshiba can replace the sapphire substrate and on the cost of much more competitive silicon substrate chip.

Thanks to its low power consumption and long life, white LED lighting has been widely used in general lighting, TV backlighting and other applications. In fiscal 2011, its global market shipments reached 700 billion yen (about $8 billion 500 million), and is expected to double in fiscal year 2016 to reach 1 trillion and 250 billion yen (about $15 billion 200 million).

In the future, Toshiba will strive to promote product development and global sales, in fiscal year 2016 to ensure that the global market share of 10%.

Product overview

Item name: TL1F1 series (1W)

Dimensions: 6.4 mm (length) x mm (W) x 1.35 mm (high)

Luminous flux: 112 LM (350mA)

Production start date: December 2012

Planning capacity: 10 million pieces per month

About Toshiba

Toshiba is a leading diversified manufacturer and solutions provider of advanced electronic and electrical products marketers. The innovation of Toshiba group and imaging business is very extensive, including: digital products, including LCD TV, notebook computer, retail solutions and MFP (MFP); electronic products, including semiconductors, storage products and materials; industrial and social infrastructure systems, including power generation systems, smart community solutions, as well as the health care system elevator and elevator and household appliances.