LED technologies are developing every day and reaching a completely different dimension. We met with Simge Ekinci Akin, Director of Seoul Semiconductor Co Türkiye, which is one of the leading companies in the sector and differentiates itself with its innovative products, and talked about the company’s activities and the general condition of the sector.
Can we get information about Seoul Semiconductor Co?
Founded in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, in 1992, Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (SSC) has been manufacturing LED and LED technologies for 26 years. Seoul Semiconductor Co, one of the 4 largest LED manufacturers in the world, is the world’s No. 1 patent leader as approved by IEEE, in LED technologies with its innovative products. As a company that allocates 10% of its total revenue to R&D activities annually, we aim to become the world's No. 1 LED manufacturing company in 2021. We carry out global sales and marketing activities with 6 R&D laboratories, more than 40 sales offices and several manufacturing facilities in 4 countries.
What are your product groups?
We can gather our main product groups in 4 main segments;
● Lighting
● TV backlight and mobile phone backlight & flash
● Automotive
● UV
What would you like to say about the recent developments in LED technologies?
With LED technologies developing in recent years, the efficiency of LEDs are also increasing daily, and both the efficiency in narrow areas and the candela power levels in the central area are becoming more important. LED light sources with high architectural elegance and high electrical back efficiencies are increasing their ratio of use daily. One of the most important subject matters recently, “Human Centric Lighting (HCL)”, i.e. human-oriented lighting, argues that it is of great importance for human health and psychology to track the daylight temperature according to the changing time period in order not to disrupt the rhythm of human biology. In this sense, Seoul Semiconductor Co, a pioneer of innovation and technology, is using a technology that applies daylight spectrum and minimizes the blue wavelength in some LED series with a technology called “SUNLIKE” as a basis for human-oriented lighting and human health. Many institutions, research hospitals, universities and academics scientifically explain that the wavelength of LEDs completely mimics daylight and the absence of a blue wavelength in it has a positive effect on human health and psychology, and the negative effects of artificial light sources are not observed. This important parameter between the light source and human health is one of the most important innovative technologies of Seoul Semiconductor Co., and it is expected that it will be rapidly applied to all other LED sources in the coming years.
Another innovation is the increase in agricultural activities with artificial light sources in the agricultural sector. The dominant wavelengths that affect plant growth in sunlight are produced separately in each LED, allowing us to get high-quality and flavor-enhanced crops by growing the plant healthily in a short time with specific recipes based on the demands of different plants. In addition to LEDs such as blue, red, deep red and white used for plant growth, a UV LED source is also required in a number of applications in order for the plant to grow efficiently and with high quality. In this sense, Seoul Semiconductor Co. offers complete solutions with a full range of related products in its portfolio.
“With the LED technologies developing in recent years, the efficiency of LEDs are also increasing daily, and both the efficiency in narrow areas and the candela power levels in the central area are becoming more important.”
“This important parameter between the light source and human health is one of the most important innovative technologies of Seoul Semiconductor Co., and it is expected that it will be rapidly applied to all other LED sources in the coming years.”
What are your operations in the automotive sector?
Seoul Semiconductor Co, which has been developing technology by closely following LED technologies in the automotive field in recent years, has taken an important step in LED lighting with its LED product groups.
“The dominant wavelengths that affect plant growth in sunlight are produced separately in each LED, allowing us to get high-quality and flavor-enhanced crops by growing the plant healthily in a short time with specific recipes based on the demands of different plants.”
What are the advantages offered by the caseless LED portfolio?
Much more compact and efficient designs can be made with the “WICOP”, i.e. chip-based caseless LEDs, one of the innovations by Seoul Semiconductor Co., and they are used in general lighting, automotive, TV lighting fields. The main advantage of caseless LEDs is that they have low thermal resistance, long service life and wide-angle light sources. Another product group, on the other hand, is the Acrich portfolio, which offers driverless solutions that can be driven directly with 220V AC. This product group provides practical designs and ease of use in limited areas. Seoul Semiconductor Co, which offers a wide portfolio of LED products for all power levels and with different case options (Low Power, Mid Power, High Power, COB, WICOP, Sunlike, ACRYLIC, Npola, RGB, UV), strives to provide the best services to its customers by acting in close partnership with Ozdisan Elektronik, which has been its distributor for many years.
“LED light sources with high architectural elegance and high electrical back efficiencies
are increasing their ratio of use daily.”
How can users access your products?
They can visit www.seoulsemicon.com to see the entire LED lighting portfolio, and www.seoulviosys.com for detailed information on UV LEDs.
