β-Sialon Device License Agreement

2026.01.06 Update

About β-Sialon Device License Agreement

All the manufacturers who produce LED devices using beta-Sialon phosphor need to use only the phosphor made by NIMS-authorized phosphor manufacturers, those are, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC), Denka Company Limited (Denka) and their subsidiaries. MCC and Denka have been granted a license for manufacturing and selling beta-Sialon phosphor from NIMS. Please note that manufactures in Peoples’s Republic of China, USA, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and Europe also need to obtain the beta-Sialon device license from NIMS.

Following companies and NIMS entered into the beta-Sialon device license Agreement.

(In no particular order)

- 30 companies in total - *

Japan
  • Nichia Corporation
  • MARUWA Co., Ltd.
  • Chichibu Fuji Co., Ltd.
  • SAYOSEIKISEISAKUSYO CO., Ltd.
  • STANLEY ELECTRIC Co., Ltd.
Europe and North America
  • ams-OSRAM International GmbH (Germany)
China
  • HGC (Wuhan) Technology Co., Ltd.
  • LOHUA Chip-Display Technology Development (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
  • Huizhou Torch Energy Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Shenzhen Jufei Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
  • Guangdong Mason Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • APT Electronics Co., Ltd.
Taiwan
  • Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Inc.
  • Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Ennostar Corporation 
South Korea
  • WOOREE E&L
  • Lumens Co., Ltd.
Other Asian regions
  • Dominant Opto Technologies Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)
  • Polymatech Electronics Limited (India)
 * Including companies whose company names are not disclosed.

Contacts

Industrial Collaboration Office
External Collaboration Division
National Institute for Materials Science

Tel:+81-29-859-2600
Fax:+81-29-859-2500
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