What"s Next for Mid-Power LEDs in Lighting Applications - Philips Lumileds WEBINAR

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WEBINAR: “What’s Next for Mid-Power LEDs in Lighting Applications” by Philips Lumileds on March 25th

Following the rapid growth of Mid Power (MP) LEDs for use in display, MP LEDs are now gaining popularity for deployment in Lighting applications. Khim Lee, Mark Chang and Dale Kane from Philips Lumileds will talk about the latest trends of MP LEDs for SSL.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CET

Valued for their relatively small lumen package, MP LEDs are uniquely suited for linear and distributed lighting applications such as LED tube lighting and troffers. As their cost proposition and performance improve, MP LEDs started to penetrate retrofit applications (e.g. LED light bulbs), industry (low and high bay lighting) and in retail shops and hospitality segments. Each of these applications have specific needs which can be met with LEDs designed with the end application in mind. An example would be a high efficacy MP LED with good quality of light (min 90 CRI) for use in retail shops. We expect that in the future the lighting market will be served mainly by these ‘application-specific’ LEDs. In this webinar we will take a close look at MP LEDs, the factors that have led to their use in lighting applications and what we can expect in terms of their proposition and usage in the future.

Valued for their relatively small lumen package, MP LEDs are uniquely suited for linear and distributed lighting applications such as LED tube lighting and troffers. As their cost proposition and performance improve, MP LEDs started to penetrate retrofit applications (e.g. LED light bulbs), industry (low and high bay lighting) and in retail shops and hospitality segments. Each of these applications have specific needs which can be met with LEDs designed with the end application in mind. An example would be a high efficacy MP LED with good quality of light (min 90 CRI) for use in retail shops. We expect that in the future the lighting market will be served mainly by these ‘application-specific’ LEDs. In this webinar we will take a close look at MP LEDs, the factors that have led to their use in lighting applications and what we can expect in terms of their proposition and usage in the future.

Presenters

Khim Lee, Director Mid-Power Product Line,

Philips Lumileds

Khim Lee is Director, Mid and Low Power Product Line, at Philips Lumileds Lighting Company. In his role he is responsible for the product management and marketing of all Mid and Low Power products for the lighting market. Khim joined Lumileds in 2011 as Director of Strategy and Alliances and prior to that he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co, focusing on the high tech sector. Khim holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Mark Chang, Mid-Power LEDs Product Manager,
Philips Lumileds

Shih Shun “Mark” Chang (張 思 慎) is currently Senior Product Line Manager for Philips Lumileds with a focus on the retrofit lamp segment.  Mark joined Philips Lumileds in 2005, and has extensive International experience.  In 2008, Mark moved to China and established Philips Lumileds Asia Technical Solutions Management team as well as the CPAT design center in Shanghai.

Prior to joining Philips Lumileds, Mark worked at Hewlett Packard

developing power amplifiers and then applications for 10G fiber optic transceivers, where he developed the first IBIS models for fiber optic transceivers. Mark majored in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on III-V solid state devices.  During graduate school at the University of Colorado, he fabricate the world’s first GaN/SiC heterojunction bipolar transistor and demonstrated performance up to 500 °C.

Dale Kane, Business & Marketing Development Manager,

Philips Lumileds

As a Business & Market Development Manager for LED Lighting at Philips Lumileds, Dale is in charge of driving best in class solid state lighting adoption, establishing roadmaps, trends, and product needs for municipal, commercial, and residential LED lighting.  Before joining Philips Lumileds, he was with DuPont working in the solar and semiconductor industries.  He holds a Chemical Engineering degree from Michigan State and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

What"s Next for Mid-Power LEDs in Lighting Applications - Philips Lumileds WEBINAR

Plessey releases PLW114050 - a brighter new generation of GaN-on-Si mid-power LED

The UK-based semiconductor company says that it has doubled efficacy since shipping its first GaN-on-Si LEDs back in April, and that its roadmap includes eclipsing the efficacy advantage currently held by sapphire-based LEDs.

Plessey has announced the PLW114050 mid-power LED family with emitters available over the CCT range from 2700K to 6500K. The new products hit efficacy levels as high as 64 lm/W essentially doubling the performance of Plessey’s first gallium-nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) LEDs shipped in April of this year, and moving the LEDs close to service in general solid-state lighting (SSL) applications.

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The new LEDs are part of Plessey’s Magic (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) portfolio. The company insists that manufacturing LEDs on low-cost, 6-in. Si wafers using depreciated and automated silicon IC fabrication facilities for the back end of the production process will yield lower LED prices. “Our Magic LED products have a cost advantage over comparable sapphire-based LEDs as we use 6-in., high yield, standard, automated silicon manufacturing technology,” said Plessey CTO Keith Strickland.

Still, Plessey has yet to produce an LED with competitive performance specifications. Back at the April 2013 launch of the first-generation LEDs, efficacy topped out at 36 lm/W and maximum flux output was 3 lm. Subsequently, the company launched blue-pump LEDs for remote-phosphor applications in July with increased performance, but those aren’t directly comparable because Plessey didn’t announce a phosphor-converted white LED at the time.

The new white LEDs deliver flux ranging from 7.9–12.3 lm when driven at 60 mA. The typical forward voltage is 3.2V, which yields efficacy ranging from 41–64 lm/W. While doubling performance in just over six months is impressive, the products trail sapphire-based mid-power LEDs significantly. For example, Seoul Semiconductor announced slightly-larger mid-power LEDs back in July that can hit 180 lm/W at 60 mA.

Plessey, however, claims that it will continue to ramp performance and soon match sapphire LEDs. “We have a roadmap that puts Magic ahead of the efficacies achieved by sapphire-based LEDs and, thereby, sets a new milestone in terms of lumen per dollar performance,” said Strickland. “By approaching efficacy parity, we are accelerating the widespread adoption of GaN-on-Si LED-based lighting products.”

For now, the Plessey LEDs will be applicable primarily to decorative lighting, instrument panel backlighting, and signaling. But should Plessey double performance again inside eight months, and ship the products in volume, the SSL world will start to take notice.

About Plessey Semiconductors

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Plessey has continually improved the quality of people’s lives for over 50 years. This has been achieved through the development of products using innovative and creative technology from the production of the first televisions for John Logie Baird in 1929 to the High Brigntness LEDs it is bringing to the market today.

Today Plessey are leading experts in the development and manufacture of semiconductor products used in sensing, measurement and control applications. Plessey’s products are found in a wide range of markets including communications, manufacturing, medical, defence and aerospace. Plessey designs products for high performance applications and its range of integrated products includes CMOS image sensors, HBLEDs, Hall Effect devices and its award-winning EPIC electric potential sensors. These products all benefit from Plessey’s high precision, high temperature and radiation tolerant technologies.

Plessey releases PLW114050 - a brighter new generation of GaN-on-Si mid-power LED