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[October 2004]
Lamina Ceramics Breaks Technology Barrier
Lamina Ceramics (Westampton, NJ, USA) announced on 18 October 2004 that it had broken a technological barrier with its development of the brightest LED light engine ever built. The ultra-high lumen RGB (red-green-blue) LED array is about 10 times brighter than any previously demonstrated. It generates light in any of more than 16 million vibrant, saturated colours - including white - and according to the company represents a quantum leap in solid state lighting technology.
Development of this light engine is expected to revolutionise the solid state lighting industry and result in many new applications for LED lighting, including illumination for buildings, large interior spaces and many other architectural lighting uses.
The key to achieving the ultra-high light output is Lamina's proprietary multi-layer ceramic-on-metal package, providing unsurpassed thermal management and interconnectivity between individual light-emitting diodes. Designated as low temperature co-fired ceramic-on-metal (LTCC-M), it is a breakthrough technological development which Lamina says provides an unmatched combination of thermal performance, greatly lengthened LED life and reliability.
LTCC-M enables Lamina to densely cluster multiple LEDs to achieve exceptionally high luminous intensities in very small footprints: the array of LEDs comprising the light engine is round and just 127mm in diameter.
"Our development of the brightest-ever LED light engines opens up new, energy efficient worlds of opportunity for dependable, long-lived indoor and outdoor architectural lighting, sports lighting and a number of very exciting applications for stage, screen and television studios," noted Taylor Adair, President and CEO of Lamina Ceramics. "This long-life, actively-cooled light engine emits no heat in its light beam and features instant-on, instant re-strike and fully dimmable capabilities. The lighting designers we have shown this to are very excited at the possibilities we are opening for them."
www.laminaceramics.com
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