New OSLON® Submount PL LEDs support direct mounting to heatsink to provide system cost savings in standard low- or high-beam headlamps. Available in two sizes of light emitting area, giving the choice to optimize for efficacy or to achieve the ideal balance between luminance and efficacy. Supplied in a standard submount footprint, the OSLON® Submount PL is a drop-in replacement for less bright competing products.
Premstaetten, Austria and Munich, Germany -- ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters, today launches the next generation of its popular OSLON Submount PL family of LEDs, offering higher brightness and more design flexibility to manufacturers of automotive forward lighting modules and products.
The third-generation OSLON® Submount PL LEDs are around 9 % brighter than the second generation based on internal data. This gives automotive manufacturers the potential to reduce the system cost of new headlamp designs. With the introduction of the new Gen3 products, the OSLON® Submount PL family is expected to maintain its strong market position in standard static headlamps for entry-level vehicles and electric vehicles.
ams OSRAM provides the OSLON® Submount PL Gen3 family in variants with one of two options for the light emitting area (LEA), giving headlamp manufacturers the flexibility to meet different customer specifications in a product with a single board layout:
- The (1030 µm)2 LEA option provides a balance between high luminance and high efficacy.
- The (1150 µm)2 LEA option is optimized for efficacy.
Philipp Puchinger, Product Marketing Manager for Automotive Forward Lighting at ams OSRAM, said: ‘These new LEDs are equally applicable to static headlamp designs, in which the light source is mounted directly on the heatsink, eliminating the need for a high-performance PCB, and to standard modules, in which the LED is mounted on an open-frame housing. In both cases, the introduction of the latest generation of OSLON® Submount PL LEDs gives automotive manufacturers a roadmap to higher efficacy and lower system costs.’
Superior performance and quality
The new LEDs maintain the characteristics of quality and value offered by earlier generations of the OSLON® Submount PL product line. They are supplied in tightly specified single-color bins, enabling manufacturers to streamline their inventory and to simplify the assembly process. The LEDs also offer high thermal stability and a uniform beam pattern characterized by homogeneous color-over-angle radiation.
The OSLON® Submount PL Gen3 products are available for sampling now with a (1030µm)2 LEA. The part numbers are KW2 C2LNL3.TK (two-chip module) and KW3 C3LNL3.TK (three-chip module).
Versions with a (1150µm)2 LEA will be available for sampling from December 2023. Part numbers are KW2 C2LPL3.TK (two-chip module) and KW3 C3LPL3.TK (three-chip module).
For more technical information or to request samples, go to our Automotive & Mobility page.
Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany – ams OSRAM, the market leader in automotive lighting, is expanding its renowned series of LED retrofit lamps. With the street-approved OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® H1-LED, drivers can legally, easily and cost-effectively upgrade their conventional H1 halogen low-beam and high-beam head-lights to LED technology.
Thanks to the OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® H4 and H7 LED lamps, motorists in Germany can already benefit from LED retrofit lamps on more than 200 models from different vehicle manufacturers. The launch of the new NIGHT BREAKER® H1-LED opens up this benefit to at least 19 further models with H1 sockets. The number of compatible models is ever growing – the full list can be found here.
The OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® H1-LED produces bright white light with a color temperature of up to 6,000 Kelvin. A special feature of the LED retrofit lamp is its low level of glare, which is up to 40 percent less than the permitted maximum value². Despite its high output, the OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® H1-LED consumes up to 55 percent less energy than conventional lamps thanks to its advanced LED technology. This also has a positive effect on the lamp’s longevity. Together with the specially developed compact, vibration-resistant design, it results in a service life up to five times longer³. Upgrading from halogen to the OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® H1-LED does not require any modifications to the vehicle so anyone with a reasonable level of competence can do it, or it can be done the next time the car is being serviced.
The OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® H1-LED is vailable now for 144.99 euros (RRP).
ams OSRAM is constantly working on wider approval of the OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® LEDs. Retrofit lamps are available for a variety of contemporary motorcycles, classic cars, trucks and motorhomes in addition to cars. This is yet another way in which ams OSRAM is making an important contribution to road safety. For a list of compatible vehicle models please click on this link.
¹ Approved LED vehicle light. Applies only to countries in which approval has been granted or for which a comparable approval applies, and to vehicle models and lighting functions currently indicated in the compatibility list. For more details go to www.osram.com/nb-led.
² Compared to the minimum requirements of ECE R112.
³ Compared to traditional halogen lamps.
Premstätten, Österreich and Munich, Germany (11 October 2023) – ams OSRAM, the market leader in automotive lighting, is launching its first street-approved1 LED retrofit lamps for motorcycles. Motorcyclists can now upgrade their old halogen lamps legally, easily and cost-effectively with the NIGHT BREAKER® H4-LED. They will then be able to see and be seen better at all times – especially at night.
The award-winning OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER® family is already a firm favorite among motorists. Motorcyclists can now also experience the benefits of the product range. NIGHT BREAKER® H4-LED is the simple choice for upgrading low beam and high beam to state-of-the art LED technolo-gy. They are ideal as replacements for conventional H4 lamps and bases.
The NIGHT BREAKER® H4 LED for motorcycles produces bright white light with a color tempera-ture of up to 6,000 Kelvin. The product is up to 230 percent brighter than conventional lamps , while reducing glare by 50 percent2. What’s more, the NIGHT BREAKER® H4-LED consumes up to 55 percent less energy than conventional lamps and will last up to five times longer thanks to LED technology and the specially developed vibration-resistant design3.
The NIGHT BREAKER® H4-LED for motorcycles are approved for various models of the manufac-turers Kawasaki, BMW and KTM. A list with all approved motorcycles can be found under this link. The products will be available from mid-October for €74.99 (RRP).
ams OSRAM is constantly working on wider approval of the NIGHT BREAKER® LEDs. In addition to motorcycles, the retrofit lamps are available for a variety of contemporary cars, classic cars, trucks and motorhomes. This is yet another way in which ams OSRAM is making an important contribution to road safety. For a list of compatible vehicle models please click on this link.
Further information
1 Approved LED vehicle light. Applies only to countries in which approval has been granted or for which a comparable approval applies, and to vehicle models and lighting functions currently indicated in the compatibility list. For more details go to www.osram.com/nb-led
2 These offer up to 230 percent brighter light and 50 percent less glare compared to the maximum permissible thresholds of ECE R112
3 Compared to traditional halogen lamps
Introducing a ground-breaking innovation in automotive lighting with our ALIYOS™ LED-on-foil technology, which opens up all-new possibilities for design freedom and creativity in automotive lighting.
The world of automotive lighting design has long been confined by technological constraints — limiting the creativity of designers, the innovation of engineers, and the choices available to consumers. From now on, form and function no longer follow one another, but instead follow a common goal: best-in-class customer-centric designed automotive lighting solutions.
Dr. Gerald Broneske, Vice President Global Product Marketing OS Automotive at ams OSRAM, said: ‘With the release of its ALIYOS™ technology, ams OSRAM is taking another major step towards strengthening its position as one of the most innovative suppliers of lighting technology in the automotive industry. The introduction of advanced LED-on-foil technology marks a new revolution in the way that LEDs are applied in automotive lighting, giving customers exciting new opportunities to differentiate vehicle brands.’
ALIYOS™ is the key ingredient for novel, multi-optional design applications in the field of automotive lighting. As flexible, transparent and bright, ALIYOS™ LED technology opens a new dimension of communication via light: The LED segments of ALIYOS™ LED foils can be controlled individually and combined to create sophisticated signatures, lettering and light image scenarios. This way light becomes a communication interface on almost any material and at any place in the vehicle.
All performance aspects of ALIYOS™ LED technology are designed to meet economic requirements in terms of energy and construction efficiency. The individual components of the LED foil system realize an ultra-thin overall height of < 1mm and are true lightweights in automotive design. With a brightness level of > 10.000 cd/m² and individual controllable segments, completely new application areas and engineering approaches are possible - in the interior and exterior.
- ALIYOS™ technology pushes boundaries of multi-segmented area lighting and enables customization of light emission patterns
- Characteristics such as transparency, thinness, 2.5D bendability and freedom to create new lighting effects enable customers to differentiate their lighting solutions
- Legal requirements for the luminous intensity of rear combination lamp (RCL) functions are met with the ALIYOS™ technology
- ALIYOS™ LED-on-foil technology enables creation of customized, multi-segment lights in new configurations such as three-dimensional structures or ‘invisible’ lights on curved panels
- The ALIYOS™ lighting technology reflects ams OSRAM’s leadership position in innovation in automotive lighting
The new OSIRE® E3731i RGB LED is especially designed for automotive interior applications requesting high dynamic RGB lighting scenarios. This device is an intelligent RGB device, incorporating besides R/G/B LEDs an IC from ams OSRAM. This embedded IC integrates the drivers for the three R/G/B LEDs. It enables creation of dynamic color and motion effects across hundreds of LEDs. The embedded IC includes the optical measurement data of the three R/G/B LEDs as well. An external micro controller can address and control each device in a daisy chain architecture via an open system protocol. The intelligent RGBi uses a new and license-free Open System Protocol for communication with any microcontroller. Combination of new LED and protocol reduces implementation cost and complexity, to bring dynamic lighting within reach of a wide range of models and market segments. The open protocol allows the micro controller to read back these data and to run any color algorithm. It also allows to read back a temperature value to optimize this color algorithm.
Intelligent and high resolution forward lighting raises automotive safety to a new level, with the EVIYOS® 2.0. 25.600 pixels are automatically switched on or off realizing high resolution adaptive driving beam (ADB) enabling glare free high beam functionality while increasing the safety for the driver and the environment. The technology revolutionize the era of H/L solutions by allowing road projection of legal safety relevant symbols and coming home/leaving home scenarios. EVIYOS® is the world’s brightest and space-optimized solution from ams OSRAM providing a compact solution to realize both visualization and illumination required for future HD H/L solutions.
- EVIYOS® 2.0 provides high-resolution, fully Adaptive Driving Beam capability, automatically reducing glare in high-beam mode
- EVIYOS® 2.0 projects images and safety warnings on to the road surface to communicate to the driver and others around the vehicle
- EVIYOS® 2.0 is the first LED to house a monolithic chip that contains 25,600 individually controllable LEDs
- 10 years of intensive development culminate in release of EVIYOS® 2.0 to volume production this month
- Marelli’s new h-Digi® microLED is based on the EVIYOS® 2.0
Please welcome our new LED ENGIN LuxiGen® UVA - High Power UVA LED Portfolio for Industrial UV Curing. A broad spectrum of applications like Industrial UV Curing (paint, ink, adhesive, resin and others) or counterfeit detection can be realized with our products.
The new LED ENGIN LuxiGen® UVA brings 3-9% higher efficiency. Combined with very low thermal resistance and optimized light extraction for higher efficiency, this product family allows users to create powerful compact fixture with the ideal wavelength for their applications.
ams OSRAM introduces improved blue and green lasers based on a new generation of its diode emitter chip. The chip’s superior performance enables manufacturers to increase the value of laser modules and devices aimed at applications such as leveling and scanning. Enhancements made possible by the new lasers include a smaller power supply, a more homogeneous beam, and more efficient coupling to optical fiber.
- The new generation of blue and green single-mode lasers are supplied in a range of optical power levels, and in two package options
- Manufacturers of laser modules used in scanning and leveling applications can use the new lasers’ tighter tolerances to reduce operating current and voltage, and so reduce the size of the power supply
- Superior beam quality avoiding artefacts and interferences
- New PLT3 and PLT5 products launched at Laser World of Photonics
Premstaetten, Austria and Munich, Germany (June 26, 2023) -- ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, introduces improved blue and green lasers based on a new generation of its diode emitter chip. The chip’s superior performance enables manufacturers to increase the value of laser modules and devices aimed at applications such as leveling and scanning. Enhancements made possible by the new lasers include a smaller power supply, a more homogeneous beam, and more efficient coupling to optical fiber.
The improved PLT3 products are available in a TO38 Metal Can® package, and the PLT5 products in a TO56 package. Optical power output is 100 mW for the blue lasers, and between 10 mW and 50 mW for the green.
Optical power output, wavelength options and beam shape are maintained from the previous generation of PLT3 and PLT5 products, but the new versions offer improved beam quality, and a narrower distribution across production units of values for key operating parameters.
Martin Wittmann, Senior Director Product Marketing for Visualization & Sensing at ams OSRAM, said: ‘By choosing the latest versions of the popular PLT family of laser diodes, customers benefit from excellent beam quality and tight tolerances, making it easier for them to produce better laser module devices.’
The new ams OSRAM chip improvement in beam quality means that laser-module manufacturers gain coupling efficiency when light is coupled into a waveguide or glass fiber giving greater flexibility in the specification of the required output power from the laser source. In addition, the new PLT3 and PLT5 lasers have a more homogeneous beam. This improves a laser module’s ability to illuminate a surface or object uniformly.
Tighter tolerances reduce maximum power requirement
ams OSRAM has enhanced its laser diode fabrication technology to narrow the distribution of values for key operating parameters across the population of production units. This makes it easier for laser module manufacturers to maintain the required tolerance in the driver circuits.
In addition, the new lasers feature lower maximum values for operating current and voltage, as well as for threshold current. For instance, the maximum threshold current for the 30 mW green laser, the PLT5 518FB_P, has been reduced by around 25 percent from 60 mA in the previous generation of PLT5 products to 45 mA in the latest version.
The tighter tolerances in the new diodes, and their lower operating current, mean that the power supply to the laser can be shrunk. The space and power savings enabled by use of the new PLT laser diodes is an important benefit for portable battery-powered devices in particular.
Scanning applications enhanced by use of high-performance green lasers
A typical application that will benefit from the new ams OSRAM chip is barcode scanning with green lasers. Large warehouses or open-air storage units suffer problems with the use of traditional red laser scanners, because the red dot is difficult to see over a long distance or in bright daylight. This increases the risk that an operator scans the wrong item.
The human eye is much more sensitive to green light than to red, however. This means that green laser scanners are less affected by interference from ambient light, and as a result are becoming increasingly popular in laser leveling and scanning applications. Many laser scanners are mobile, battery-powered products: they will benefit substantially from the reduced maximum operating current drawn by the new PLT family of green laser diodes, extending run-time between battery charges.
ams OSRAM is showing the new PLT3 and PLT5 laser diodes at its booth A2.526.1 at the Laser World of Photonics exhibition (Munich, Germany, June 27-30, 2023). Its display includes a mobile computer with an integrated barcode scanner featuring the new PLT5 520EB_Q, a 20 mW green laser diode.
New product availability
The PLT3 and PLT5 single-mode lasers based on the new ams OSRAM diode chip have a typical peak wavelength of 450 nm (blue) or 520 nm (green). The products available at launch are the blue laser with optical power output of 100 mW, and green lasers in 10 mW, 20 mW, 30 mW and 50 mW output options. They can be ordered now in production volumes and will replace the present blue and green single-mode laser products. A new 110 mW green laser diode will be introduced at a later date.
Product image for the blue and green laser diodes – PLT3 single-mode laser (TO38 package)
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Product image for the blue and green laser diodes – PLT5 single-mode laser (TO56 package)
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Application image for the blue and green laser diodes
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About ams OSRAM
The ams OSRAM Group (SIX: AMS) is a global leader in optical solutions. By adding intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich people’s lives. This is what we mean by Sensing is Life.
With over 110 years of combined history, our core is defined by imagination, deep engineering expertise and the ability to provide global industrial capacity in sensor and light technologies. We create exciting innovations that enable our customers in the automotive, consumer, industrial and healthcare sectors maintain their competitive edge and drive innovation that meaningfully improves the quality of life in terms of health, safety and convenience, while reducing impact on the environment.
Our around 22,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation across sensing, illumination and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnosis more accurate and daily moments in communication a richer experience. Our work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which is reflected in over 15,000 patents granted and applied. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) with a co-headquarters in Munich (Germany), the group achieved over EUR 4.8 billion revenues in 2022 and is listed as ams-OSRAM AG on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ISIN: AT0000A18XM4).
Find out more about us on https://ams-osram.com
ams OSRAM introduces the third generation of its popular OSLON® Compact PL family of automotive LEDs, with a technical improvement of eight percent higher brightness than the second generation. By producing the luminous output required by safety specifications with fewer LEDs, the new OSLON® Compact PL LEDs offer manufacturers of automotive forward lighting higher value and new design options.
- New third generation LED, producing 440 lm in single-chip variant, up from 405 lm in previous generation, reduces cost by enabling manufacturers of headlamps and daytime running lamps to produce a specified luminous output with fewer LEDs
- Higher efficacy of new LED means that car manufacturers can increase vehicles’ energy efficiency and reduce their CO2 emissions
