Bavarian Ministry funds aluminium nitride UV LED project for industrial disinfection

The Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Media, Energy and Technology has funded the project called UNIQUE which aims to develop aluminium nitride UV LEDs for industrial disinfection processes.

The project involves five Bavarian companies and research institutions and is coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors. The project is sponsored by VDI/VDE/IT and slated to run from July 2016 to June 2019.

Osram head of UV development Hans-Jürgen Lugauer said, “Our many years of experience in the development of mass-market opto semiconductor components will help make the UNIQUE project a success and contribute to bringing the prototype to market at a later date in volume production.”

 “Osram Opto is already active in the near-UV range. UNIQUE will extend our portfolio into the deep UV range, specifically for disinfection applications.”

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aprotec GmbH is assigned the task of installing the plant for producing aluminium nitride (AIN) volume crystals. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) is in charge for producing AlN substrates including the synthesis of high-purity AlN powder and the production of AlN crystals to the manufacture of AlN substrates from the AlN crystals.

The mercury-free LED-based UVC comes with wavelengths in the 260 to 280 nanometer. It can be used from domestic water purification to industrial disinfection of food packaging.