Improvements in LED manufacturing processes, learning from the lessons of the mainstream silicon semiconductor industry, could have a big impact on the LED industry, writes Paula Doe of SEMI.
Making a real market for all those great LED lighting applications may depend in large part on the efforts of the semiconductor supply chain to implement the same kind of roadmaps and standards that have brought down the costs of semiconductors and flat panel displays.
The same manufacturing efficiencies that reduced semiconductor cost over the past three decades will enable high-brightness LEDs to penetrate the general purpose lighting market, argues SEMI president Stan Myers.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Why does this article not include a mention of the cost-saving foreshadowed by the RPCVD process developed by Bluglass?
It is a low temperature, glass substrate process that promises to drastically reduce manufacturing costs.
Bluglass have just announced a joint venture with BLK who will purchase a BLG-300 RPCVD commercial reactor.
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Good overview of the path to greater efficiency. Seems like good, basic engineering and manufacturing ops drawing on the semiconductor talent pool will make LEDs mainstream in pretty short order.
http://ledlightsathome.com/2009/08/13/led-mfg-efficiency/
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