The Award Ceremony of International SSL Alliance (ISA) 2024 “Global SSL Award of Industry Development Outstanding Contribution” (AOID) was held in the morning of Nov. 20, 2024, at Suzhou International Expo Center, Suzhou, China, during ISA General Assembly 2024.

The award of AOID has been incepted since 2021. A total of 19 individuals and organizations have been awarded so far.

Mr. Xiaoming JIN, Co-Secretary General of ISA, Former Director General, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology, China moderated the ceremony and revealed the winners.

In the year of 2024, a total of five SSL industry leaders were awarded.

The second winner went to Dr. Min WANG, Co-founder of LatticePower Corporation Limited.

 

Dr. Wang Min, born in 1967, PhD from Zhejiang University, Professor-level Senior Engineer, recipient of the First Prize of the National Technological Invention Award in 2015, selected for the National Major Talent Program, recipient of the State Council Special Allowance. Currently serving as the part-time Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Association for Science and Technology, Chairman of the Jiangxi Lighting Society, and Director of the National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Solid-State Light Sources.

Dr. Wang Min has dedicated nearly twenty years to the LED industry and is a leader in the commercialization of silicon substrate LED technology. In 2006, he co-founded LatticePower with National academician Jiang Fengyi, leading the team to achieve large-scale industrialization of silicon substrate LED technology ahead of anyone else globally and has established LatticePower as a well-known brand for high-power LED light sources. Additionally, he founded several companies, including CECEP Latticelighting Technology and Luye Automotive Lighting, focusing on the development of a professional lighting industry chain centered around silicon substrate LED technology, thus forming a cluster for the silicon substrate LED industry.

Dr. Wang Min has always adhered to innovation-driven, conducted multiple national and provincial science and technology research projects, overcome a number of key technical problems in the field of silicon substrate LED technology, has more than 30 patents, and led the development of silicon substrate LED industry standards. Also, he won the LED industry "Ten leading figures", "Jiangxi Province ecological civilization construction advanced individual", "Jiangxi Province model worker", Jiangxi Province's fourth "Ten Jinggang son" and other honorary titles.

Brief introduction of the outstanding achievement of Dr. Min WANG

1. Adheres to innovation-driven, the world's first to achieve the industrialization of GaN-on-Si technology

Dr. Wang Min is focusing on innovation and industrialization of silicon substrate LED technology. In 2006, LatticePower began to explore the industrialization of this technology. On the basis of bringing in venture capital and talents ,he and his team were constantly improving the technical process, In 2009,they achieved low power silicon LED chips volume production and large scale production of high power silicon LED chips in 2012 which was selected as “Annual news event of 2012”by ISA .In 2014,US department of energy Manufacturing Roadmap Solid-State Lighting Research and Development wrote “LatticePowr was an adopter of this technology and commenced volume production of GaN-on-Si die in June 2012”. In 2016, "Silicon substrate high light efficiency GaN blue light-emitting diode" project won the first prize of the 2015 National Technological Invention Award.

Based on blue LED, LatticePower continually expand to UVA LED, green LED, red LED, and  firstly breakthrough 12-inch silicon substrate tricolor Micro LED epitaxy key technology in the world. Meanwhile，based on silicon substrate GaN technology, LatticePower develop silicon substrate GaN HEMT device (High Electron Mobility Transistor) technology simultaneously with the world.

2. Promotes the development of the silicon substrate LED industry chain and contributes a new technical path reference for the development of the global semiconductor lighting industry

In order to bring new products to the market, Mr. Wang Min started the whole industrial chain layout with the "technology + capital" model. He successively founded LatticePower Semiconductor and Lattice Bright these two subsidiaries, and LatticePower switched strategy from a single LED chip company to an IDM company with LED chips, packaging and module. At the same time , focusing on the application advantages of silicon substrate LED technology, He founded some application and supporting companies, for example, in 2009 CECEP LatticeLight which has become an active promoter of silicon substrate LED technology in street lights, tunnel lights and other applications,in 2015 Luye automotive lighting company,in 2018 merged a listed company named Changfang Group which is an advance portable lighting brand in China, and in 2020 hatched a ceramic substrate company, etc. Through more than ten years of building and integration, taken LatticePower as the lead, China's silicon substrate LED industry chain has a relative competitive advantage, a certain degree of economies of scale and an obvious effects of the cluster, which contributing a new technical path reference for the development of global semiconductor lighting.

3. Promotes the formation of silicon substrate production base and contributes to ensuring the global semiconductor lighting supply chain

Dr. Wang Min has the courage to break through the "Red Sea" market, actively exploits the mobile phone flash, automotive lighting, portable lighting, aviation lighting and other "blue ocean" market, achieves the large-scale application of silicon substrate LED technology products from general lighting to professional lighting and beyond lighting. The success of the large-scale production and commercial use of silicon substrate LED technology has contributed to the diversification of the development path of the global semiconductor lighting industry, and has also changed the technological competition pattern to a certain extent. At the same time, Mr. Wang Min has served as the chairman of Jiangxi LED Industry Alliance for many years, and cooperated with the local government to cultivate and introduce the whole LED industry chain enterprises, driving Jiangxi to become one of the largest LED chips and packaging production bases in the global. After the global outbreak of the new coronavirus epidemic, LatticePower has overcome all difficulties to stabilize and ensure supply for overseas customers such as Samsung, and has made positive contributions to the stability of the global LED supply chain.

4. Actively carry out EMC projects, and contributes to energy saving, emission reduction and low-carbon development

Dr. Wang Min always adheres to the concept of innovation-driven sustainable development, opens up the whole industry chain technology development and collaboration, constantly promotes the innovation and iteration of technology and products. He led Lattice lighting team proposing the concept of modular street lamps and achieving production and application firstly in the industry, and independently develops the urban smart lighting management platform, operating more than 50 EMC projects of LED street and tunnel lights in major cities in China. From 2009 to the full operation period, those EMC projects will save more than 2.2 billion KWH of electricity and reduce 2.18 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which contributes to the realization of "carbon peak" and "carbon standard" and helps the world's green and low-carbon development.

Jury Comments

1.Outstanding developments made by LaticePower and its related entities over the relatively short period of less than two decades involving significant innovation.

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2.The development of alternative approaches to lighting technology is very important.  Wang Min has challenged the dominance of sapphire substrates and led research to use silicon substrates. He has built companies that have applied this technology to many different applications.

3. His contributions in technical innovations of LED chip technologies through leading Lattice Power Co. are very impressive.

4. A brilliant example of the implementation of the concept of innovative development of "Technology + capital". Mr. WANG Min organized research and implementation in one of the promising areas of development of LED technologies on silicon substrates for GaN-on-Silicon and UV LED. This allows you to reduce the cost of production of LED chips and develop new areas of semiconductor production.

Dr. Min WANG delivered his acceptance speech via video recording at the ISA 2024 General Assembly.

Dr. Wang Min said that it was a great honor to win such an important global award, which was an affirmation of crystal energy optoelectronics and his personal affirmation, but he also thought that this was the international SSL industry's high recognition of the innovative technology and large-scale industrialization of silicon substrate LED. It was also the recognition of the entire team of LatticePower Corporation Limited for 18 years to adhere to independent innovation and adhere to high-end products. He said that their generation was lucky, caught up with the rapid development of the global LED industry outlet, crystal Optoelectronics was lucky, born in the LED industry chain was extremely perfect China, crystal Optoelectronics had the opportunity to choose and focus on high-power LED light source, photoelectric sensor parts and other professional products, the future we would be more actively integrated into the global LED industry chain, to provide high quality products and solutions for global customers. Finally, he wished the conference a complete success and wished the global LED industry prosperity and let the light of LED illuminate the world.

We would like to congratulate Dr. Min WANG being awarded this honor  and thank him for his outstanding contribution to the global SSL industry.

Global SSL Award for Outstanding Industry Development

● Accept excellent applications

● Judged by worldwide authoritative experts

● Worldwide circulation and promotion

● Manifest outstanding leadership of people and organizations

ISA would like to invite the interested enterprises, organizations, research institutes and business leaders in the field of SSLto make their application of this award in 2025, with the aim to demonstrate these who made contribution to promote the process of advancing this industry and application, inspire new thinking, encourage the peers, and work together to promote SSL into a new period of development.