The core value of this project is the manufacturing of solid state lighting materials

The solid state lighting joint venture project between Hebei provincial government and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation’s No. 13 research institute has officially begun its production. This project is located in the Information Technology Center in Shinjiazhuang City, Hebei Province. The investment totaled RMB390 million, and covers an area of 60 acres, and is the largest industrialized solid state lighting project in Northern China. The project is to achieve an annual output of 100 thousand ultra-bright AllnGaP LED epi wafers, 20 thousand GaN LED epi wafer, five billion LED chips and a total of 300 million single-LED lights, standard LEDs, and high-power LEDs. The project is estimated to generate an annual output value of RMB 407 million.

The core value of this project is the manufacturing of solid state lighting materials and chips, which leverages packaging as its technical support, and champions its applications to spur the development of materials, packaging, and chips, and commissions the testing and standardizing platforms of No. 13 institute. The project aimed at making a leap of innovation, accelerating technological progress, and establishing the solid state lighting industry chain in Hebei Province.

CEO Stephen Squires explained that there are essential similarities between the screen-printing techniques to fabricate LEDs and the screen printing technology that Solterra is currently optimizing to print quantum dots to make thin-film solar cells.

Using this licensing agreement to fabricate LEDs using screen printing techniques will greatly reduce the costs of LEDs, Squires explained. The high cost of producing LEDs has limited its uses; and therefore a dramatic cost reduction will greatly expand LED use, he added.