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Taiwan LED sales soar on
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strong Olympics demand for high-tech,
TAIWAN’S sales of energy efficient lights charged gases in a fluorescent light tube. high-quality
soared during the first half of this year, LEDs use about a tenth of the energy of
helped by the Beijing Olympics and higher an incandescent bulb and can last a
components,
energy prices. Taiwan’s LED makers decade or longer. They also produce
reported that their sales rose 16.1 percent almost no heat, reducing fire potential.
assemblies and
in the first half of this year. Taiwan LED makers are one of the
tailor-made systems
“New applications are increasing”, first to enter the high brightness (HB)
said Ivan Lin, an analyst with market segment. HB LEDs are a new generation
researcher LEDinside in Taipei. “LEDs bright enough for most lighting needs.
are increasingly used as backlights for The organisers of the Beijing Olympics
computers, in street and factory lights.” used LEDs to illuminate the stage at the
“The high brightness LED market opening ceremony for the games with
grew by 9.5% to $4.6 billion in 2007,” 44,000 in a 147 x 36 metre screen. The
according to Strategies Unlimited analyst Olympics venue also had a gigantic LED
Robert Steele. “The use of LEDs for screen measuring 30 x 200 metres.
signs, cars, signals and illumination The high tech lights have other
together grew by 20% in 2007.” advantages because they take up less
The overall high brightness LED space, have no breakable glass or
market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of filaments, perform exceptionally well in
20%, reaching $11.4 billion in 2012. cold environments, require no warm up
Taiwan has the world’s second largest time, eliminate frequent replacement of
LED industry with a 20 percent share of burned out bulbs and tubes and emit no
the global market, according to harmful infrared or ultraviolet rays.
LEDinside. Japan has the world’s largest Taiwan’s government aims to boost the
LED industry with a 37 percent share. domestic industry by replacing all the
People are switching to LEDs to save island’s incandescent type traffic lights
energy and cut electricity bills with these with LED lamps in three years.
lights, originally familiar to most people The Chinese government aims to
as decorations on Christmas trees. LEDs exploit green technologies including LED
reduce energy consumption by emitting and solar energy to help it reach the goal
light from a chip rather than an of trimming 10% of electricity
incandescent filament in a light bulb or consumption nationwide by 2010.
IMEC and Plextronics collaborate
on reproducible organic solar cells
From planning
WITH this collaboration, IMEC aims to flux in the solar spectrum and high
develop a reproducible process for high mobility. Plexcore OS materials will be
to production
efficiency organic solar cells using processed using spin coating and
Plextronics’ Plexcore branded materials validated on film morphology, carrier
and inks, which have demonstrated mobility and reproducibility. Solar cells
efficiencies as high as 5.9%, according to will be processed on different substrates
recent testing at the National Renewable using spin coated films of the material.
Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado. Future research will include evaluation
Oerlikon Mechatronics AG
IMEC aims to develop organic multi of other Plexcore materials and inks,
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junction solar cells with efficiency of 10% using deposition techniques such as screen
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by 2012. The company’s focus is also on and inkjet printing and spray coating on
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up scaling of the process to achieve an large area substrates.
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industrial manufacturing technology with “Plextronics’ materials look very
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an average efficiency of 7% (+/- 0.5%) promising for high efficiency reproducible
and solar cell lifetime of 5 years. organic solar cells;” said Jef Poortmans,
info.mechatronics@oerlikon.com
To realise these goals, high quality, Programme Director Solar at IMEC.
www.oerlikon.com/mechatronics
highly reproducible commercial materials “With their focus on materials, inks, and
are essential. In the first phase, IMEC process technology for organic solar cells,
will investigate Plexcore OS, which is a we expect that our work with Plextronics
regioregular poly-3-hexylthiophene will help accelerate our optimisation and
(P3HT) polymer with a high absorption development of an industrial large area
coefficient close to the maximum photon process.”
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