As the lighting and backlight requirements for LED die brightness continue to increase, in order to effectively increase the LED die brightness, the use of PSS substrates has become the fastest way. The legal person said that the PSS substrate can increase the brightness by about 30% compared with the general sapphire substrate. It is expected that the market penetration rate of the PSS substrate will exceed 50% next year, including the substrate factory Xinjing Diamond, Zhaoyuan (4944) and the equipment factory Zhisheng (2467) Are expected to benefit.
Substrate manufacturers said that currently Taiwan customers are still dominated by 2 inch PSS (Pattern Sapphire Substrate, patterned sapphire substrate) substrates. Although a small number of customers are also starting to get 4 inch products, the proportion is still relatively low.
From the perspective of shipment volume and revenue ratio, PSS substrates currently account for only about 20% of the overall sapphire substrate shipments, but because of the relatively high quotation, if viewed from the perspective of revenue contribution, it is nearly 50%.
Zhang Shixian, a spokesman for the LED die factory Jingdian (2448), said that because of the patent problem of PSS substrates, the company currently does not have a high proportion of PSS substrates, mainly because they are specified by customers before they are used.
Slightly more expensive than ordinary sapphire substrate
Li Jingzhen, a spokesperson for Xinjing Diamond, said that the advantage of PSS substrates is that they can directly improve the brightness of LED grains, but the price is still slightly higher than that of ordinary sapphire substrates, so there is still a lot of room for growth in the proportion of Taiwanese customers. However, as the demand for LED lighting continues to increase, it is expected that PSS substrates will become mainstream products next year.
It is understood that the current average price of 2-inch PSS substrates is about US $ 18 (about TWD 527), which is about twice as high as sapphire substrates of the same size. Because the price is still high, the die factory is not willing to switch, but At present, the supply of PSS substrates has shown signs of magnification. With the decline in prices and the increase in brightness, the penetration rate will increase.
The legal person said that the biggest problem with PSS substrates is still patents. Currently, patents are mainly controlled by Japanese manufacturers such as Niahia. The substrate factory stated that the patent held by the Japanese factory is that the sapphire substrate is then subjected to polishing and other processes to grow a luminous layer with a regular surface. Taiwanese factories have also developed irregular light-emitting layers on the surface, but they can still uniformly increase the brightness of the LED grains and can be mass-produced to avoid Japanese patents.
Taiwanese plant actively develops patent avoidance
Zhisheng General Manager Wang Baiwei said that there are two major problems in making a good PSS substrate. In addition to patents, another one is how to overcome the unevenness of the substrate surface. Wang Baiwei said that at present, the main production of PSS substrates is still using stepping equipment for exposure, but if the substrate is more than 4 inches, it is easy to cause exposure failure due to the warpage of the substrate, but the company has successfully developed nanoimprint technology, can Direct production of irregular pattern PSS substrates, while solving the problems of patents and substrate surface unevenness.
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