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Table 11: Sales figures for equipment with LCD displays (Germany 2010), the market share of devices
with background illumination using white LEDs (WLEDs) and the estimated number of WLEDs
used in the background illumination per device (see also Section 5.3)
Table 12: Mean weight of critical raw materials in LCD PC monitors (private market sector)
Metal
Device class
Content per
LCD monitor
(CCFL 4 ) [mg]
No. of devices sold in
Germany in 2010
Content per
LCD
monitor
(LED 5 ) [mg]
Content in all
LCD monitors
sold in
Germany in
2010 [kg]
Market share of
background illumination
using WLEDs
Occurrence
Silver Ag 520 520 1,340 PCB and contacts (100%)
Gold Au 200 200 505 PCB and contacts (100%)
Indium In 79 82 206 Internal coating on display (100%)
Palladium Pd 40 40 102 PCB and contacts (100%)
Yttrium Y 16 3.20 32 Background illumination (100%)
Gallium Ga 0.000 3.30 2.51 LED background illumination (100%)
Europium Eu 1.200 0.06 2.23 Background illumination (100%)
Lanthanum La 1.000 0.00 1.84 CCFL background illumination (100%)
Cerium Ce 0.680 0.20 1.38 Background illumination (100%)
Gadolinium Gd 0.096 1.50 1.33 Background illumination (100%)
Terbium Tb 0.340 0.00 0.61 CCFL background illumination (100%)
Praseodymium Pr < 0.019 0.00