23 February 2011

Lumileds’ new LUXEON S LED delivers 1300 ‘hot’ lumens and ‘Freedom From Binning’

At this week’s Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA, USA (22–24 February) and the EuroShop conference in Dusseldorf, Germany (28 February—2 March), Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA is launching LUXEON S, which the firm says should change expectations of what’s possible with its latest generation of LUXEON LEDs. Designed with retail spot and down-lighting in mind, LUXEON S aims to enable simple, effective, and efficient lighting, as a replacement for existing halogen and CDM (ceramic discharge metal halide) lighting.

Picture: Lumileds’ new LUXEON S power LED.

“The design of this product, from the Thin Film Flip Chip and Lumiramic phosphor to the tight alignment between the nine LED die in the package, contributes to the color performance, industry-leading flux density, and punch unique to LUXEON S,” claims Frank Harder, VP marketing LUXEON Product Lines. “In addition, by hot testing at 85ºC and achieving ‘Freedom From Binning’, we continue to move closer to the lighting industry in language and expectations for LUXEON performance,” he adds.

The LUXEON S surpasses the color quality and beam uniformity of any other comparable LED available, it is claimed. As the first ‘Freedom From Binning’ LED from Lumileds, there are no color bin selections to be made. With a correlated color temperature (CCT) of 3000K and a color rendering index (CRI) of more than 80, all LUXEON S emitters are targeted to the black-body curve and populate an area within a 3-step MacAdam Ellipse. The result is what is claimed to be unmatched uniformity and consistency within the light beam and between emitters.

The 1300 ‘hot’ lumens that LUXEON S delivers come from a very small optical source that enables a 10° beam from a compact reflector less than 50mm in diameter. In a retail spot or down-light the result is tight, sharp beams that deliver high Punch — high center beam intensity with beam uniformity and a crisp single shadow — that highlights and gives depth to objects that are being illuminated.

Consuming 18W for 1300lm and 9W for 790lm, the LUXEON S delivers luminous efficiency of 72–88lm/W, compared with 65–90lm/W for a 20W CDM and just 15–26lm/W for a 50W halogen lamp and 17lm/W for a 75W halogen lamp.

At EuroShop, LUXEON S will be shown in Fortimo solutions from Philips and others with solutions targeted at the retail and hospitality lighting segments.

LUXEON S is available for prototyping and development from Lumileds and Future Lighting Solutions.

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