EV Group Signs Collaboration Agreement with Eulitha to Establish Low-Cost-of ...
According to LED demand research firm Strategies Unlimited (Mountain View, Calif.), the market for high-brightness LEDs is expected to breed from $11.2 billion in 2010 to $16.2 billion in 2014, driven by applications such as TV backlighting, mobile devices and increasingly by lighting. To carry out this increased demand, LED manufacturers need new manufacturing solutions that can increase the lighting efficiency of their products while keeping manufacturing costs down. Through their union-development agreement, EV Group and Eulitha will explore new manufacturing technologies that support LED manufacturers' cost and technology requirements.
Combining Eulitha's full-candidates exposure technology with EVG's well-established mask alignment platform provides low-cost, automated fabrication of photonic nanostructures over capacious areas, and supports the production of energy efficient LEDs, solar cells and liquid crystal displays. It combines the low tariff, ease-of-use and non-contact capabilities of proximity lithography with sub-micron resolution--making it ideally suited for use in patterning sapphire substrates in pecking order to enhance the light extraction (and thus the efficiency) of LED devices. EVG plans to offer a PHABLE-enabled EVG620 system as an stretch to its well-established mask alignment system platform--giving customers an even wider choice of configuration options.




