ISA-EPIC Online Technology Meeting on UV Applications

“ISA - EPIC Online Technology Meeting on UV LED Applications” was held online (on ZOOM) on July 5th, 2022, which was jointly organized by International SSL Alliance and European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC).

About 100 representatives from more than 60 companies, research institutes, and universities around the world attended the meeting. The participants were from the countries worldwide, such as China, United States of America, Belgium, Australia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Zambia etc. The meeting was co-chaired by Prof. Jinmin LI, Chairman of Advanced Ultraviolet Optoelectronics Co., LTD. Former Director of Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, Member of ISA Board of Advisors and Dr. Jeremy Picot-Clemente, Photonics Technologies Manager of EPIC.

Prof. Jinmin LI and Dr. Jeremy Picot-Clemente presented the welcome address.

Prof. Jinmin Li pointed out that the nitride semiconductor UV LED was no mercury, no ozone, environmental health, could instantly start and close, long service life, size, weight, energy consumption and other advantages, safer and more convenient to use compared with the traditional mercury lamp, Therefore, UV LED was regarded as an excellent alternative for mercury lamp and represented the development trend of UV light source in the future.

The Novel Coronavirus was sensitive to UV, and the appropriate use of UV could effectively inactivate the coronavirus. Therefore, the UV light source had been paid much attention in fighting against and killing Novel Coronavirus, playing an irreplaceable role. If the UV LED light source was widely used in high-speed trains, subways, airports, conference rooms and other public environments, it could kill all kinds of viruses and bacteria in time, effectively blocked and defended the spread of various viruses and influenza, and provided better guarantee for public health safety.

In addition, the UV LED was small and portable, easy to design, and could be integrated with air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, air purifiers, water dispensers and other household appliances, killing bacteria and viruses in home life anytime and anywhere, providing people with a cleaner and safer living environment and drinking water.

Finally, Prof. Jinmin Li hoped that we could take advantage of today's seminar to exchange the latest development and application scenarios of UV LED technology and products, learn from each other and improve together.

Dr. Jeremy Picot-Clemente pointed out that UV LED had become popular since last year, not only because of COVID-19, which killed viruses, but also because they could be used in other applications. UV LED had a large market in Europe, many companies engaged in the UV LED industry were located in Europe, and continued to innovate and develop UV LED technology.

He expressed that the meeting was a great opportunity to highlight dynamic companies that were doing well and it was to create new business opportunities for the Asian and European markets.

In total 6 experts from well-known enterprises of China, Europe and the United States made speeches and shared their research and development of UV LED technology innovation and application prospects.

The speakers were:

1. “UV-LED Innovation and Application Roadmap”- Dr. Jianchang YAN, GM, Advanced Ultraviolet Optoelectronics Co., LTD.

2. “Far UVC; Safe disinfection, beyond disinfection and the future of Far UVC?” -  Dr. Peter Tonning, R&D engineer, UV MEDICO, Denmark

3. “Products, Markets, and Application Prospects of High-Performance Deep UV-LEDs”- Dr. Jingwen CHEN, Marketing Technical Director, Hubei DUVTek Co., Ltd., China

4. “Status of UV-C LED devices and systems in residential and commercial applications” - Mr. Oliver Lawal ,CEO, AquiSense Technologies, USA

5. “New Development Direction of UV LED Industry”- Mr. Qian WU, GM, Hongli BYTECH,China

6. “Creating light, thin and flexible devices leveraging printed electronics on flexible substrates”- Mr. Girish Gable, Senior Manager of Strategic Capabilities – JABIL,USA

Unfortunately, Mr. Oliver Lawal, CEO of AquiSense Technologies, USA and Mr. Girish Gable, Senior Manager, Senior Manager of Strategic Capabilities , JABIL, USA were unable to attend the meeting due to the Internet connection problems. After the meeting, ISA Secretariat would share the PPT of these two speakers with participants.

At the closing session, Prof. Jinmin Li mentioned that SSL was stepping into the era of "beyond lighting", and had broad market and application scenarios in smart lighting, agricultural lighting, health lighting, information display, sterilization and other aspects, and there was enough space to create a market in cross-border integration. He was looking forward to exploring with you together. Finally, he hoped EPIC and ISA could regularly carry out exchanges and cooperation in this regard, provided better serve to their members and created more attachment values for them.

Dr. Jeremy Picot-Clemente of EPIC expressed that he hoped that through the exchange and discussion of this seminar, we could better carry out the business in the field of UV LED in the future, enhance communication and find more partners. Meanwhile, he hoped to cooperate with ISA secretariat to hold more activities related to SSL in the future.

The two American speakers invited by EPIC could not attend the seminar, Dr. Jeremy Picot-Clemente expressed his apology that He said PPT of the two speakers would be sent to the ISA secretariat after the meeting. Shared by ISA Secretariat.

The meeting ended at 18:00 Beijing time.