List of 25 UV LED manufacturers, products and applicationsread count [288] release time：2020-03-13 19:45:00

In October 2013, the Minamata Convention on Mercury (the Minamata Convention on Mercury), an international ban on mercury (mercury), was officially adopted at a meeting in Kumamoto City, Japan.

On August 16, 2017, the Minamata Convention officially entered into force. The Convention requires state parties to ban the production, import and export of mercury-containing products (ordinary mercury-containing products containing more than 5 mg of mercury) starting from January 1, 2020. illumination fluorescent lamps).

The signing and adoption of the Minamata Convention accelerated the incentives for UV LED The market is taking off all over the world, including Japan, China, the European Union and other markets. UV LEDs are needed to replace household and industrial UV lamps and mercury lamps.

Traditional mercury lamp and UV LED light The difference

UV LED has a wide range of application scenarios, and different wavelength bands can be divided into UVA (320-400nm), UVB (280-320nm) and UVC (100-280nm).

As one of the emerging niche markets, UV LED The popularity is increasing year by year. According to news in July 2019, the annual output of 30 million UV rays LED chip Zhongke Lu'an deep ultraviolet LED project was officially put into production in Shanxi Province. Moreover, this is the world’s first high-power mass-produced UV LED chip production line.

In recent years, more and more manufacturers have joined the UV LED R&D camp and actively expanded their layout to seize more market share. LEDinside's "2019 Deep UV LED Application Market Report - Sterilization, Purification and Water Treatment Market" report shows that in 2018, affected by the global economic environment, although the revenue of UV LED manufacturers did not meet the expected explosive growth, it also achieved stable growth.

The UV LED market has huge room for development. International manufacturers such as Seoul Viosys, Nitride Semiconductors and Nichia have been working in the field of UV LED for many years and have successively launched UVA and UVC LED products of different specifications. Sanan Optoelectronics , Nationstar Optoelectronics, Qingdao Jason and other domestic manufacturers also continue to invest in the UV LED field.

Seoul Viosys It mainly produces UV LED chips and packaging products, and is gradually developing towards the finished product market. The company launched an air purifier that provides multiple functions of mosquito trapping, sterilization, and air purification. UVA LED packaging products have entered the curing market. The main markets are Europe, the United States and China, which are mainly fast printing and dispensing machines, and are developing towards LCD curing equipment.

UVC products are used in air conditioners, washing machines, and static and overflow water sterilization modules. They have been stably put into mass production, and the product life can reach more than 20,000 hours.

Nichia Mainly promoting high-power UVA LED packaging and COB products, which are used in resin curing, LCD curing, and high-speed printing equipment. In addition, this year it launched a new UVC LED product with an optical output power up to 60mW, targeting the mobile water sterilization market. At the same time, the company's products below 60mW are also on the market.

Yuanrong Optoelectronics In 2015, it acquired 85.6% of the equity of Qingdao Jason. Since then, the UVA business has been mainly operated by Yuanrong Optoelectronics, which produces packaging products for the curing and testing markets.

Qingdao Jason It will focus on developing UVC LED products, mainly targeting the static and dynamic water sterilization and air purification markets. At present, Qingdao Jason has formed a strategic partnership with Qingdao Haier, and its products are constantly developing towards high-power UVC LED. Qingdao Jason UVC LED will mainly develop in the direction of water purification applications in the future.

Sanan Optoelectronics It mainly provides UVB and UVC LED chips and packaging products. Its UVB & UVC LED wavelength coverage range is 265~320nm, and the wavelength and chip design can be customized.

The company's dynamic water sterilization modules can provide different high-current drive designs and have excellent temperature control capabilities, ensuring that the modules can provide good sterilization effects for up to 10,000 hours of life. Static water sterilization can use UVC packages and module combinations with 2-15mW power according to the application requirements, with a sterilization rate of 99.99%.

In addition, Sanan Optoelectronics expects to increase chip WPE to 6.5% in 2022. If encapsulated LEE technology is used, WPE can be increased to 10%.

Nationstar Optoelectronics UVA/UVB/UVC LED series packaged devices are widely used in sterilization, phototherapy, curing, photocatalyst, plant growth, mosquito trapping, manicure and other fields. The company currently has partnerships with several well-known manufacturers.

Nationstar Optoelectronics plans to cooperate with catalyst and ink factories to achieve breakthroughs in the field of industrial curing. In emerging fields, Nationstar Optoelectronics is actively deploying industrial hemp and other plant lighting fields.

Also worth noting are companies specializing in the field of UV LED, such as Hongli Bingyi, Yuchuang Synthetic and Bioraytron.

Hong Libingyi It is the first company in China to launch fully inorganic packaged UV LEDs. Its products include UVA and UVC LED packaged devices. At present, the products have been widely used in screen printing, flexographic printing, inkjet printing, gravure printing, UV exposure, air purification, sterilization, 3D printing and other industries.

The company's UVA LED products are mainly positioned in the industrial curing market, including printing curing and dispensing curing equipment. UVC LED products are in the customer certification stage and are mainly positioned in the air purification and water treatment markets.

Etron Synthesis It is a company born for UV LED. It was established in 2013 and is committed to UV LED lamp beads , finished product design, production and branding. The company focused on the research and development of UV LED lamp bead tubes in the early days. Since 2014, it has entered the nail phototherapy machine market and is currently producing UVA nail lamps and UVC disinfection products. In addition, Etron Synthesis also plans to enter upstream chip factories and cooperate with relevant manufacturers.

Bioraytron It is a brand cooperated by Yanjing Optoelectronics and Optoelectronics. It specializes in UVC LED and completes the vertical integration of UVC LED from epitaxy, chip to packaging. The product uses quartz reflective lens and copper substrate packaging technology architecture. These devices are exclusively supplied by Optoelectronics to Yanjing Optoelectronics, and Yanjing Optoelectronics launches them in the market under the brand name Bioraytron.

Bioraytron UV-C LED sterilization products have been designed in cooperation with companies in many consumer industries, including home appliances, food processing, sanitary ware, kitchenware, lighting, 3C and health industries, and have received many orders for surface sterilization, air sterilization and still water sterilization and purification products.

Judging from the current products on the UV LED market, UVA LED products are becoming mature and their application scope is gradually expanding.； In terms of UVC LED, according to LEDinside, products with a wavelength of 265-280nm are mainly widely used at this stage.

LEDinside believes that the application of UVC in surface sterilization, air sterilization and purification, still water sterilization, and flowing water sterilization will become the main growth driver of the UV LED market in the next five years (2019-2023).