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SETI in the Top 5 Nominations for IET Innovation Award
The firm’s UVClean Deep UV LED lamps, which are used to promote a healthy environment and lifestyle, have been acknowledged as one of the top five innovations from almost 400 nominated products.
Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (SETI), has been selected as a “highly commended” innovative company by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) during its 2010 Innovation Awards.
This year, the IET received a record number of almost 400 nominations for the Innovation Awards, from which SETI was shortlisted to 5 in the category of ‘Emerging Technologies’ for its development of its UVClean Deep UV LED lamps.
Based on the same technology as SETI’s leading UVTOP products, UVClean lamps have been developed to provide a reliable, compact and environmentally friendly solid-state light source for healthy lifestyle products.
Markets including water, air and surface disinfection have been identified as well as phototherapy for treating skin conditions such as psoriasis, vitiligo and eczema. All of these markets require high power lamps and the standard UVClean products commercially available have powers of 1-3mW, 3-5mW, 10-15mW and 30-50mW.
UVClean lamps have already been designed into customer’s disinfection products and SETI believes that with the benefits delivered from LEDs, UVClean will become the industry standard for UV lamps in the healthy lifestyles market.
Together with a panel of judges, the IET recognize SETI’s UVClean LED lamps as one of the most innovative emerging technologies from a wide variety of engineering and technology disciplines from around the globe.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is Europe’s largest professional engineering society, sharing and advancing knowledge to promote
science, engineering and technology across the world. The IET Innovation Awards celebrate the products, technologies and processes that lead the way in engineering innovation.
LED Supplies Far Outweigh Demands
IMS Research’s latest quarterly GaN LED report says that oversupply is accelerating due to a significant reduction in the number of LEDs required per panel. The report also says that Samsung and LG are battling over LED consumption leadership for LCD displays.
IMS Research’s latest “Quarterly GaN LED Supply and Demand Report” features a brand new LED supply and demand model built by a new global team of authors.
It concludes that LED supply growth is significantly outpacing demand growth creating a widening surplus and increased pricing pressure.
According to IMS Research SVP Ross Young, “LED supply is rapidly expanding on China’s MOCVD stimulus program, ramping of recently installed tools and improving yields on existing tools. On the other hand, a significant 2H’10 reduction in LEDs per panel is causing demand to grow slower than expected, leading to reduced fab utilization and increased pricing pressure. Because of China’s MOCVD subsidies, MOCVD shipments and supply growth are not slowing down resulting in an accelerating supply imbalance that is expected to widen through 2012 if MOCVD shipments remain on schedule.”
The latest report, which reveals each panel suppliers’ quarterly panel shipments, LED panel shipments, number of LEDs per panel and LED consumption at every size, resolution and refresh rate, shows that the weighted average number of edge-lit LEDs per panel fell by around 30% in both TVs and monitors from Q2’10 to Q3’10 as panel and backlight suppliers further optimize their designs to reduce costs. Improvements in lightguide and LED efficiencies and optimization of optical films caused the reduction which is contributing to a growing LED over-supply.
January / February 2011
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