TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary
Chapter One: Introduction
- High Brightness-LED Applications-What Customers Want, and What New Products and Applications are On The Horizon
- Red Means Go - the Red HB-LED Breakthrough
- Stop Means Go-Stop Lights Fuel HB-LED Growth
- Future So Bright, You Have to Wear Shades
- Going Where No LED Has Gone Before
- The Next Phase
- The Importance of Thinking Like a Customer
- Key Objectives of This Report
- Scope of the Report-Research Methodology and Information Sources
Chapter Two: HB-LED Technology-Where Is It Going?
- Introduction
- High-Brightness LEDs are Different and Disruptive
- Change Is Both Good and Bad
- Crossing Moore's Chasm-Niche Goes Mainstream
- Haitz's Law-Moore's Law for LEDs
- Incandescent Lamps
- Fluorescent Lamps
- Realities and Economics of LEDs
- Solid-State Lighting 101
- GaN 101: What is Gallium Nitride?
- LED Fabrication
- How do LEDs and HB-LEDs Work?
- Impurities Change Everything
- It's All In the Gap
- Heat Problems
- When Is an LED a High-Brightness LED?
- Light Output Patterns of LED and HB-LEDs
- How are High Brightness LEDs Different from Conventional LEDs?
- HB-LEDs Advantages and Disadvantages
- LEDs Advancing Innovations on Many Fronts
- It Takes More Than Just a Chip to Make a Useful Light
- LED Lighting Systems Advances
- New LED Semiconductor Architectures
- Innovative Chip Designs
- New Device Material Systems
- New Wafer Substrate Systems
- New Fabrication Processes
- Innovative Packaging
- Entire Device Designs
- Fixture Designs
- New System-level Design
- Disruptive Technology Threats To HB-LEDs
- OLEDs-Is This a Threat to GaN LEDs? Is It a Real Threat or PowerPoint Paper Tiger?
- Silicon-Based LEDs? Is This a Threat to GaN LEDs?
- Quantum Dot LEDs-Is This a Threat to GaN LEDs?
- Summary
- Cost, Cost and Cost
Chapter Three: LED Applications
- Overview
- HB-LED Applications
- Automotive
- Exterior Lights
- Interior Lighting
- Future Applications
- Traffic Signals
- Rationale for LED Use In Traffic Signals
- Disadvantages of LEDs
- Signage
- Backlighting
- General Illumination with LEDs
- Innovative Applications
Chapter Four: LED Suppliers
- Main Stream Suppliers
- Nichia
- Cree Inc.
- Osram Opto
- Lumileds Inc.
- GELcore
- Interesting Start-ups to Watch
- Lamina Ceramics-Multi-Chip LED Integrated Circuits
- Color Kinetics Inc. - Innovative LED-Based Lighting Systems
- Oriol Inc.
Chapter Five: Five-Year Forecast 2004-2008
- Revenue Forecast
- Device Type Forecast by Revenue 2004-2008
- Device Type Forecast by Percentage of Revenue 2004-2008
- Average Selling Prices
- Unit Forecast
- Applications
Chapter Six: OEM Buyer Wants and Needs |
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