NCKU Research Team Won Gold Award at 2011 INPEX
Tainan, Taiwan, July 12th, 2011
A research team led by Prof. Wen-Chau Liu of the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has won a gold award at the 2011 Invention & New Product Exposition (INPEX) for its high-efficient GAN-based light-emitting diode.
Held each year in Pittsburgh, INPEX offers over 1,000 innovations, new product ideas and technologies that can be licensed, manufactured, marketed or applied to a brand or product line.
Taiwan took home 26 gold, 12 silver and 5 special awards this year, making it the biggest winner in one of the three world-recognized invention shows.
Among them, the gold-winning High Current Spreading Efficiency GAN Light Emitting Diode was the result of a collaborative effort of Prof. Wen-Chau Liu, Prof. Wei-Chou Hsu and students Yi-Jung Liu, Chi-Hsiang Hsu and Jian-Kai Liou at National Cheng Kung University.
According to Prof. Wen-Chau Liu, the new invention is 520μm² by 250μm² in size and can last 420 minutes, which is 140 minutes more than traditional LEDs which only last 280 minutes, having at least 50% of battery life than traditional LED lights.
With features such as small size and high energy-saving, the invention can be used in the backlight modules of laptops, cell phones and outdoor billboards.
“Companies are asking about technology transfer and we have already applied for patent, so the possibility in commercialization is very high,” he said.
Noteworthy to mention, Prof. Wen-Chau Liu has also won gold medals in the 2010 International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva and the 2010 International Trade Fair “Ideas-Inventions-New Products” (iENA) Nuremberg, Germany.
A research team led by Prof. Wen-Chau Liu of the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has won a gold award at the 2011 Invention & New Product Exposition (INPEX) for its high-efficient GAN-based light-emitting diode.
Held each year in Pittsburgh, INPEX offers over 1,000 innovations, new product ideas and technologies that can be licensed, manufactured, marketed or applied to a brand or product line.
Taiwan took home 26 gold, 12 silver and 5 special awards this year, making it the biggest winner in one of the three world-recognized invention shows.
Among them, the gold-winning High Current Spreading Efficiency GAN Light Emitting Diode was the result of a collaborative effort of Prof. Wen-Chau Liu, Prof. Wei-Chou Hsu and students Yi-Jung Liu, Chi-Hsiang Hsu and Jian-Kai Liou at National Cheng Kung University.
According to Prof. Wen-Chau Liu, the new invention is 520μm² by 250μm² in size and can last 420 minutes, which is 140 minutes more than traditional LEDs which only last 280 minutes, having at least 50% of battery life than traditional LED lights.
With features such as small size and high energy-saving, the invention can be used in the backlight modules of laptops, cell phones and outdoor billboards.
“Companies are asking about technology transfer and we have already applied for patent, so the possibility in commercialization is very high,” he said.
Noteworthy to mention, Prof. Wen-Chau Liu has also won gold medals in the 2010 International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva and the 2010 International Trade Fair “Ideas-Inventions-New Products” (iENA) Nuremberg, Germany.
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