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package, demos at SIL
Published on: February 27, 2014
By Maury Wright
Editor, LEDs Magazine and Illumination in Focus
Philips Lumileds announced two new LED families
leading into Strategies in Light 2014 (SIL) and is
demonstrating its latest technology in an SIL booth
with color-tunable technology front and center. The
company has announced a 200 lm/W version of a
lime-green LED in the Rebel ES family targeted at
color-tunable solid-state lighting (SSL)
developments. The company also added the Luxeon
MZ LED family for directional applications that can
deliver center beam candle power (CBCP) in the
50,000-cd range.
It was Lumiled's lime-green LED technology that in
large part enabled the development of the color-
tunable Philips Lighting Hue lamp. The lime color is
closer than deep green to the black-body curve and
the LEDs enable Hue to hit a range of white CCTs
near the curve with CRI maintained in the 85 range.
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"This really represents a new frontier in lighting,
because Luxeon Rebel ES Lime emitters can be
combined with other Rebel color and white emitters
to achieve higher CRI and R9 combinations than
any previous generation emitters or arrays," said
Rahul Bammi, vice president of product
management at Lumileds.
Lumileds uses a blue emitter with a proprietary lime
phosphor to deliver an LED with efficacy far above
what has been available in other green LEDs. The
new Rebel ES lime LED hits new heights at 200
lm/W at a drive current of 350 mA and operating
temperature of 85C.
Lumileds said that the new LED can enable SSL
products with CRI above 90 and R9 values for
saturated red above 90. That quality level, especially
at warmer CCTs, is again due to the lime color and
the fact that it enables the use of more-efficient red
LEDs that don't waste energy above the human
sensitivity range.
On the SIL exhibit floor, Lumileds featured a demo
that showed off the capabilities of the lime,
red-orange, and royal-blue LED mix used in Hue.
The booth also included a look at the company's
product range including mid-power LEDs to
chip-on-board (COB) products.
Lumi l eds Luxeon MZ
On the opening day of SIL, Lumileds announced the
new Luxeon MZ series that is a follow-on to the
Luxeon M. The four-emitter LED is in a traditional
discrete package with a 4.2-mm light emitting
surface (LES). For applications such as spot or
down lights, the family spans the range of 600 to
1000 lm.
The Luxeon MZ LEDs are compatible with the
Luxeon M family in terms of footprint and
performance. But the new product is specifically
designed to produce a narrow beam whereas the
prior was intended for street lights and industrial
applications.
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"With the LUXEON MZ in combination with LUXEON
M, designers can create two solutions with one optic
and one PCB, thereby lowering overall costs," said
Emmanuel Dieppedalle, senior vice president at
Lumileds. "Our customers are already designing
platforms with Luxeon M and Luxeon MZ to create
multiple SKUs using less engineering resources."
The MZ family has a forward voltage of 11.2V. In an
MR16 application, Lumileds said that the LED will
deliver the aforementioned 50,000-cd CBCP.
Lumileds will offer the products over the range of
2700 to 6500K CCT, and at 70, 80, and 90 CRI.
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