the development of LED standardization

LED announced its recent improvements in both epitaxial quality and chip process to its EV- family of LED chips. These improvements allowed a 10% increase in blue chip brightness and 8% decrease in forward voltage (Vf) during mass production, enabling its clients to achieve over 130lm/W with cool white and 110lm/W with warm white. We are excited about the improvement. Our RD efforts have paid off to further strengthen LED position in the LED market” Said Trung Doan, Chairman and CEO of LED.These improvements make LED high bay lighting suitable for demanding directional applications such as street lighting, tunnel lighting and indoor retail lighting.

Subsequently, on 4 January, the board of directors appointed Timothy Lin to serve as interim CFO while it conducts a search for a permanent replacement. Young has agreed to provide transition assistance to the firm for a period of time.This is the first time that the Shenzhen organization, a nonprofit that is overseen by the National Science Council and represents over 600 local photonics companies, has partnered with its foreign counterparts in the push for LED lighting standardization.David Heh, a senior manager in PIDA's LED Business Division, represented PIDA in signing MOU, explained the reasoning behind the MOU: “It's natural for the six organizations to enter into partnership as they share the same goal—cultivating photonics brainpower and pushing for collaboration between the private sector and academic institutes in their respective countries.”

Heh points out that cooperation among the six bodies will help the LED manufacturers they represent better understand the development of LED standardization in their countries and allow them to systematically exchange information with one another.The six associations will meet regularly at the World LED Standardization Conference, which is held on the sideline of the LED & Display Expo in Seoul, South Korea.Korea's KLEDA led the formation of the partnership with the aim of creating an international LED standardization body. “Based on the MOU,” comments KLEDA chairman Ki Ho Kim, “we will work together to push for international standardization of led lighting ”The market slump may continue for years and the European Union, the world's largest LED lighting market, may still be under the shadow of the debt crisis, but technology improvements are brightening the prospects of the LED lighting industry, said Brian Fiser, marketing director of the U.S.-based Bridgelux. Fiser is an optimist who sees hope of a market rebound in 2013, or in 2015 at the latest, as a result of the reduction in LED-bulbs prices.