highly efficient LED lighting will replace traditional lighting in the coming years

Chemtura’s chairman, president & CEO Craig Rogerson noted that by establishing fully integrated manufacturing and distribution capability in Asia, they are addressing the expectations of customers in the region who demand local manufacturing for improved responsiveness and assurance of supply. The JV advances Chemtura’s strategy for growth in the led high bay light.UP Chemical's CEO Dr Hyun Koock Shin commented that UP Chemical can seize a great opportunity through the partnership with Chemtura at a time when LED backlighting for LCD TVs has grown explosively and highly efficient LED lighting will replace traditional lighting in the coming years.

Materials to be grown on the new MOVPE reactor are InP and GaAs based quantum well and quantum dot structures. Applications cover site control of quantum dot nucleation, photonic crystals, lasers, photodetectors, solar cells, fundamental properties of quantum dots, superlattices and microcavities.

Coordinator and leader of the technology-research mission, Prof. Patrícia Lustoza de Souza of the Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro comments, “Recent funding means we can update our facilities and top of the list is a new MOVPE reactor. It was logical that we pick an led high bay, partly because we already have one but mostly because of its versatility. This will enable us to grow semiconductor samples not only for our members but also for any other group within the country and abroad wishing to collaborate or source from us.