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Taiwan to phase out incandescent lamps by 2010 |
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Taiwan government has drafted an energy-saving strategy to totally eliminate the use of incandescent lamps and phase in LED light bulbs by 2012, said Yeh Huey-ching, director of the MOEA's Bureau of Energy at the 2007 Strategic Review Board (SRB) in November.
Yeh made the remarks while delivering a report on the nation's energy development goal and strategy at the 2007 Strategic Review Board (SRB) meeting sponsored by the Cabinet's Science and Technology Advisory Group.
The government is planning to implement a policy to prohibit the production of incandescent light bulbs from 2010, with the output of such lamps expected to be totally prohibited from 2012, Yeh pointed out.
Noting that power consumption by general illumination in Taiwan stands at 26 billion kilowatt-hours per year, once LED lamps are adopted, the energy saved is expected to reach 41 percent of the energy consumed at present.
The Taiwan government agencies have begun to phase out the use of incandescent lamps and that their use will be entirely forbidden from 2009 in government institutions. Taiwan government is also planning to change all traffic lights to LED lights, which will require an outlay of NT$1 billion to NT$2 billion.
The annual SRB meeting is by far the most important event regarding the country's industrial technology research and development.
During the meeting, the Executive Yuan announced that Taiwan will concentrate resources in three main industrial sectors in its efforts to create more energy-efficient products. The selected sectors cover industrial applications of light-emitting diode (LED) opto-electronic lighting, air conditioning, and energy, information and communication technology.
To reduce carbon emissions, several countries has announced to prohibit the use of incandescent light bulbs: Australia government announced in February that Australia will phase out incandescent light bulbs within three years; E.U. has decided to use energy-saving lighting by 2010; Canadian government announced to prohibit the sale of incandescent light bulbs in 2012.
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| BluGlass held LED GaN technology investor meeting at PIDA |
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Australia-based BluGlass held an investor meeting at PIDA on Nov. 28, 2008, introducing BluGlass and its innovative technology to new investors, in particular hi-tech fund managers with an understanding and interest in compound semi-conductors. Over forty Taiwanese attendees from optoelectronic related companies had joined the meeting.
From left: Alfred Huang, Sr. Business Development Manager of ACIO, Giles Bourne, Commercial Manager, BluGlass Ltd,Dr. Shih, the founder of PIDA, David Jordan, CEO, BluGlass and Jane Lam, Business Development Manager of ACIO
Dr. Shih, the founder of PIDA, addressed, ˇ§LED application is booming in recent years. Cost reduction is a key factor which will enable the LED industry to grow fast. We are looking forward to seeing the technology developed by BluGlass which will reduce the cost of one of the key components of LEDs ˇV GaN semi-conductor wafers.
According to David Jordan, CEO of BluGlass Ltd, BluGlassˇ¦ process for producing GaN offers substantial competitive advantages over current commercial processes. The process enables GaN to be produced at temperatures significantly lower than those used currently, without the use of ammonia, allowing the GaN industry to move from deposition on sapphire and silicon carbide wafers to deposition on cheaper materials such as glass and silicon. Furthermore, the new process replaces expensive and toxic ammonia with nitrogen. BluGlass technology can also increase the wafer scale beyond the present size limits for sapphire and silicon carbide, offering substantial improvements in production efficiency.
This GaN-on-glass technology offers several important competitive advantages, including low cost, scalable, environmental benign and widely applicable by using a vacuum chamber in which a wafer of glass or other substrate material is heated. Active species of nitrogen are produced using a plasma and introduced into the main chamber, where they react with a vapor of trimethyl gallium (TMGa) to form a film of GaN on the wafer.
BluGlass plans to construct a manufacturing demonstration plant based on a 12-inchdeposition area process. The plant will enable BluGlass to further develop and scale-up its technology, while facilitating licensing and other early-stage commercialisation activities, indicated Giles Bourne, commercial Manager of BluGlass Ltd.
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Korea Display Industry Association visited PIDA |
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KDIA delegates visiting PIDA
Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) visited PIDA on December 12th. KDIA is the first Korean display delegation visiting Taiwan with eight delegates including two personnel from KDIA, and also Korean company representatives from LPL, Samsung, SFA, Dongjin Semichem as well as Pr. Ohkyon Kwon, Hanyang University, and Pr. Geunyoung Yeom,Sungkyunkwan University. KDIA will form a group of Korean display makers to exhibit at Display Taiwan 2008, the PIDA-host event and the only FPD show in Taiwan in 2008. PIDA will arrange a Korean Pavilion for Korean exhibitors. This visit helps KDIA better understand PIDA and discuss the possibility of further cooperation in the future.
KDIA is a non-governmental organization, founded in May of 2007 and organized by Korean display makers. The core members are Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, LG and LPL. The function of KDIA is to provide the platform for Korean display makers to have technology and commercial cooperation as well as to set up industry and technology standards. KDIA sets up a goal that Korean display industry will create a production value of USD$ 100 billion in 2015.
During the meeting, Dr. Shih has invited Pr. Ohkyon Kwon and Pr. Geunyoung Yeom to give speeches at Photonics Festival in Taiwan in 2008.
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