Leds Deliver Backlight In Rugged Auto Infotainment Systems

摘要

The market size for all light-emitting diodes will reach $10.3 billion by 2012, according to Yole Development in France. High- and ultra-high-brightness LEDs combined will represent approximately $4.45 billion of this total-almost 5.5 times the $783 million market size in 2007 (based on packaged LEDs). One of the major drivers of this staggering growth is the adoption of LED lighting in modern automobiles. LED applications include thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel backlighting in infotainment systems and gauge clusters, interior lighting, brake lights, day time running lights, turn signal indicators and most recently headlights.rnLEDs are orders of magnitude smaller and flatter than their counterparts so the LCD panels can be very thin, thereby requiring minimal space in the interior of the car.