TDI Wins $600,000 Award
Clean Energy Award Will Help Create High-Tech U.S. Jobs
Technologies and Devices International, Inc. (TDI), part of the Oxford Instruments Group, has been awarded $600,000 by the Maryland Energy Administration to encourage the wider adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting, and for the State to become a national solid-state lighting materials and equipment manufacturing leader.
This Clean Energy Economic Development Initiative award will enable TDI to employ more scientists and engineers in 2010, and to create more direct and indirect Maryland high-tech jobs by 2015. The award will help complete materials and process development, and begin transferring that production technology to drive down manufacturing costs associated with LED lighting.
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| Oxford Instruments' CrystalFlex Multi-wafer Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy reactor |
TDI’s proprietary Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) technology has allowed it to develop
CrystalFlex
TM, a prototype high-volume, industrial-scale manufacturing machine for freestanding Gallium Nitride (GaN) materials. TDI collaborators include the University of Maryland and other U.S. researchers and manufacturers.
The U.S. Department of Energy has identified the development of free-standing GaN substrates and their manufacture by HVPE as key technologies to enable reduced LED manufacturing costs with improved LED performance. Upon project completion, TDI’s high-volume manufacturing equipment will allow increased U.S. production of free-standing GaN substrates to meet growing global demand.
Federal studies have shown that 22 percent of all electricity consumed in the U.S is for lighting. DOE projects that replacing incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent tubes with highly efficient LEDs would save taxpayers more than $17 billion in annual U.S. energy costs, and result in a 33 percent reduction in U.S. electricity consumption relative to a scenario with no SSL on the market. The broad adoption of LEDs also would result in the need for 29 million fewer barrels of oil annually for electricity generation and reduce CO2 gas emissions by 155 million tons.
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