The government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is exhibiting a UV-C LED chopsticks sanitizer and UV-C LED water purifier at Computex 2016. Both devices destroy 99.99% of coliform bacillus and other disease-causing microbes in 90 seconds, according to ITRI.
UV-C LED sanitization was developed through cooperation with LED packaging service providers Opto Tech and Para Light Electronics, ITRI said. As UV-C LED has a low efficiency conversion of 1-2%, there are high technological barriers for applying UV-C LED to sanitization, and LED packaging providers focused on hiking optical power of UV-C LED chips, ITRI explained.
Makers are willing to adopt UV-C LED sanitizing technology and plan to begin production of devices in the second half of 2016, ITRI indicated.
Article translated by Adam Hwang
