To: slacker711 who wrote (5157 ) 3/8/2001 1:51:30 PM From: slacker711 Respond to UTCI says demand is still strong....``Although recent announcements indicate a slowdown in some segments of the market, this does not appear to be the case in markets requiring the increasingly higher brightness levels that Uniroyal Optoelectronics has developed,'' said Robert L. Soran, President and Chief Operating Officer of Uniroyal Technology Corporation. ``The very high brightness products have traditionally been produced on sapphire substrates and the leading suppliers have been Toyoda Gosei and Nichia. Comparative lamp testing indicates that UOE's gallium nitride blue and AlInGap 626nm red products are at the high end of the brightness levels.''While markets such as LCD backlighting, particularly for mobile phones, may experience a slowdown due to sluggish cell phone sales, demand for very high brightness products for applications such as outside video displays, signage and traffic signals remains strong. The achievement of higher brightness levels has decreased the number of LEDs required in high brightness applications. This, in turn, has resulted in more cost efficient conversions to LED lighting from traditional incandescent methods, creating a wide variety of new applications for high brightness LEDs.
