Inventors of GaN LED and yellow LED to speak at LEDforum Taipei 2011

TAIWAN: LEDforum 2011, the largest LED seminar in Taiwan, is scheduled to be held on November 1-2, 2011 at the NTUH International Convention Center in Taipei. Organized and held by LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, LEDinside analysts will present in-depth analyses on both European and Chinese markets and provide perspectives on the market trends and outlook during this two day event.

Moreover, the inventor of GaN LED Dr. Shuji Nakamura and the inventor of yellow LED, George Craford will both be speaking at the LEDforum 2011, addressing the cutting edge trends of the LED industry and LED innovations and application in next generation lighting, respectively.

Most notably, Dr. Shuji Nakamura, honored with Nobel Prize nomination and Millennium Prize, came to Taipei, Taiwan for a sold-out speech in 2007. Dr. Nakamura earned the title of “the inventor of GaN LED” due to his success in inventing GaN LED. In the early days, the difficulty of manufacturing GaN (blue) LED was a real stumbling block to creating colorful RGB basic color palette for LEDs.

However, after Dr. Nakamura solved the manufacturing issue of GaN LED, it spurred the invention of white LED, which contributes to the wide adoption of LED applications today. The perspectives of LED’s two iconic figures will illuminate the path to the next generation LED lighting.

LEDforum 2011 is a two-day seminar organized by LEDinside, which will be held at the NTUH International Convention Center on November 1-2, 2011. On the first day of LEDforum, the sessions will dissect the trends of LED upstream material, equipment and chip markets; the sessions on the second day will tackle the issues of LED lighting applications, driver IC and package and shed light on the big picture of LED industry, helping the participants get a firm grasp of the market dynamics.