LED4Auto06: LED and HB-LED for Automotive Applications Report Released

Insight Media is offering a new report "LED4Auto06" which focuses on LEDs and HB-LEDs for Automotive Applications. High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) are being actively pursued for use in automotive exterior lights as well as headlamps. In addition, HB-LEDs are in contention to replace conventional lamps and lower brightness LEDs on the interior of the car, too.

The report, published by Yole Développement, finds that HB-LEDs for exterior front lighting will gain an increasing market share over "conventional" LEDs for the car's interior. Driving this trend will be the accomplishment of a major milestone in 2007: GaN-based LEDs will reach a higher luminous efficiency than fluorescent lighting. This event will begin the ramping up of the solid-state lighting business in 2007, particularly for interior and exterior automotive lighting applications.

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Figure 1: Roadmap for GaN-based LEDs

There are strong growth opportunities for HB-LEDs in automotive applications. HB-LEDs offer many benefits, including:

Increased reliability (e.g. lifetime much larger than needed)
Use for both interior and exterior lighting
Low-power consumption and increased and power saving
Mercury free products

The LEDs small size also enables:

New design possibilities and high tech appearance
Increased integration

Moreover, in terms of safety, LEDs have a faster speed of response. LEDs light up approximately 250 milliseconds quicker than bulbs. At 100km/h speed, LED brake lights appear 7 meters sooner.

Large market opportunities also exist for HB-LEDs for exterior front lighting in cars. As the HB-LEDs performance increases, fewer chips will be necessary (less than 15 should be necessary in 2009 for all functions).

The cost objective for auto ($10/kilo-lumen) will be reached in 2010 for a wide range of HB-LEDs in exterior front lighting. However, HB-LEDs are expected to be available in high-end autos in 2007. Today a high-end car can have up to 200 LEDs and this figure is expected to grow in the future: it could be up to 800 LEDs in 2009. The market for HB-LEDs for exterior front lighting is relatively new.

The forecast for the market for automotive exterior lighting will be 40% of the total HB-LED automotive market in 2009.

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Figure 2: 2009 LED market share for automotive applications (total market > US$800M)

The white LEDs market will be shared by 5 major players: Lumileds, Osram, Nichia, Toyoda Gosei and Cree.

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Figure 3: example of car dashboard with LED backlighting

Moreover, the recent interest for HUDs (Head-Up Displays) in cars should also benefit from the HB-LEDs technology. HB-LEDs are currently bright enough to be used as a backlight on an LCD, instead of CCFL, which should help to move more LCDs into automobiles too. The favored applications here are center console displays and entertainment systems.

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Figure 4: TFT-based Siemens VDO HUD with 128 HB-LEDs for the backlighting module

View the report's Table of Contents.

Coverage:
For each of the different applications where solid-state lighting could be used in a car, the report describes:

The current HB-LED and LED products and developments for automotive
The bottlenecks
A roadmap
What are the technical requirements and cost?
The technological and market trends
A SWOT analysis
A market forecast for 2005-2010
The challenges
Conclusions

Who Should Buy:

Manufacturers of LED/HB-LED devices --
- Provides in-depth analysis to access the LED business in the automotive market
- Provides quantitative figures of components volume for manufacturing
- Helps you to position yourself in this business
Manufactures of automobiles -
- Complete analysis of LED/HB-LED supply chain with main players
- Highlights the latest developments from the devices manufacturers
- Provides a quantification of market volumes
- Highlights the new applications in development
- Provides valuable information on the roadmap, technical bottlenecks, needs, and regulation issue

Deliverable:
The report, consisting of 150+ PowerPoint slides describing the market and technology trends for HB-LEDs in automotive applications and lighting, is delivered as a PowerPoint file under a site license agreement.

Pricing:
Price is $4,700 USD company single-site license.

For more information or to order the report, contact: Insight Media, Annmarie Gabisch, (203) 831-8464,
email: annmarie@insightmedia.info.

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