Energy-efficient LED solutions are important levers that greenhouse operators can use to save energy. Upgrading to LED lighting pays off, leading to significant efficiency enhancements and thus cost benefits. ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters, has now launched its OSCONIQ® P 3737, a high-power LED equipped with state-of-the-art chip technology that offers industry-leading performance with an overall wall plug efficiency (WPE) of 83.2 % in Hyper Red, outstanding robustness and a long lifetime.
Optimum light intensity with lower energy costs: comparative savings with the OSCONIQ® P 3737
With the new OSCONIQ® P 3737 from ams OSRAM, energy costs in greenhouses can be significantly reduced without compromising on light output ratio (LOR). Thanks to the LED’s market-leading overall wall plug efficiency of 83.2 % in Hyper Red, manufacturers of horticultural luminaires can redesign their fixtures to achieve a higher photon flux of 6.13 µmol/s with lower energy consumption. This results in a significant increase in the photosynthesis rate (PS rate), maximizes crop yields, and shortens harvest cycles.
Here's a simple cost calculation: With its overall efficiency of 83.2 %, the new OSCONIQ® P 3737 Hyper Red can achieve 11 % energy savings, which is great progress compared to previous-generation LEDs with an overall efficiency of 74 %. With the same photon flux, this corresponds to € 11 per € 100 spent. For a medium-sized greenhouse with annual electricity costs of more than € 100,000, vegetable, flower, and other growers can save € 11,000 per year by installing the latest LED lighting technology.* In addition, higher photon flux levels have the potential to result in more biomass and shorter crop cycles. Tests have shown that the LED still delivers 90 % of its original light output even after 102,000 operating hours. This means that the OSCONIQ® P 3737 has the longest lifetime of all LEDs for horticultural fixtures.
*Depending on the energy costs and system parameters
The OSCONIQ® P 3737 is the perfect choice for use as a greenhouse top light, as interlighting between rows of plants or flowers, as sole-source lighting or as lighting in vertical farming applications. It is available in five colors: Hyper Red (660 nm), Red (640 nm), Deep Blue (450 nm), Far Red (730 nm) and Horti White, covering the broad spectrum of requirements in controlled horticulture.
ams OSRAM to present its market-leading LED portfolio at GreenTech Amsterdam 2024
From June 11 to 13, ams OSRAM will showcase its market-leading LED portfolio and advanced sensor solutions for horticulture at GreenTech Amsterdam, the global meeting place for investors and professionals involved in horticulture technology. In the Vertical Farming Pavilion (Hall 05, Stand 370VF), experts from ams OSRAM will guide visitors through the latest product highlights and answer any questions about simple, smart, and sustainable cultivation of crops.
Together with Inventronics, one of its customers, ams OSRAM will showcase a new demo board at GreenTech: “Inventronics uses the OSCONIQ® P 3737 for its pioneering Horticulture LED Module P 3737 demo board for plant growers and greenhouse operators—and we are very excited that our visitors will have the possibility to discover it at GreenTech”, emphasized Dr. Alexander Hoffmann, Head of PL Grow & Industry at ams OSRAM. “Fitted with LEDs from our high-power OSCONIQ product family, the 4-channel board from Inventronics allows greenhouse operators to achieve cost savings while enhancing performance, even in harsh environments.”
The power levels of these drivers go up to 1800 W, with solutions for 120-277 V AC and 277-480 V AC. Notably, Inventronics boasts the largest range of DALI-2 D4i drivers on the market today, ensuring a wide variety of options to suit any lighting requirement. The roadmap includes the 4-channel 1200 W driver providing full bi-directional control over a digital interface, featuring a high efficiency of 96 % and power sharing technology allowing the separate allocation of power to each of the channels. This innovative technology signifies a major leap towards digital lighting in horticulture applications.
The new horticulture demo board will be shown at the booth of Inventronics (05.413) as well as at the ams OSRAM booth in the Vertical Farming Pavilion (Hall 05, Stand 370VF).
ams-OSRAM Japan Ltd. (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo) is the Japanese subsidiary of ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters that will roll out its latest sensing and illumination solutions for future automotive applications at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2024. This major industry event will take place at the PACIFICO Yokohama convention and exhibition center from May 22 to 24, 2024.
Being Japan’s largest technology exhibition for automotive engineers, the event is expected to draw over 60,000 visitors to some 1,200 booths hosted by over 500 exhibitors.
From EVIYOS® 2.0 drastically improving road safety to the SYNIOS® range of extended light bars and individually addressable LED chips of the OSIRE® family: the range of offerings presented by ams OSRAM at this year’s exhibition promises to impress and enlighten. In addition, the company is proud to showcase its groundbreaking Open System Protocol (OSP), a flexible, centralized communication platform, along with its first two OSP-capable products: the intelligent OSIRE® E3731i LED RGB module and the AS1163 standalone intelligent driver (SAID).
Venturing into the exciting new world of intelligent automotive solutions, ams OSRAM is positioned as a trusted co-creation partner for unprecedented, premium-quality optical innovations, delivering highly precise, miniaturized solutions—complete and on time. Together with its partners, ams OSRAM contributes to making automobile journeys safer and more convenient and provides top-notch optical sensing solutions that help accelerate progress in the automotive industry.
EVIYOS® 2.0: Intelligent forward lighting
EVIYOS® 2.0, 25,600 pixels of individually controllable high-resolution LEDs for excellent brightness, raises automotive headlamp safety to all-new levels of illumination and visualization. In addition to the conventional Low and High beam functions and high-resolution glare-free Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) technology, track assistance and warning symbols can be projected directly onto the road. The demonstrator showcases low/high beams, as well as track assistance and other symbols on the road.
ALIYOS™: LED-on-foil technology
ALIYOS™ from ams OSRAM creates unprecedented effects in automotive lighting. It pushes the boundaries of multi-segmented area lighting and enables the customization of light emission pat-terns. Characteristics such as transparency, thinness, 2.5D bendability and the freedom to create new lighting effects have been realized. This future-oriented LED-on-foil technology enables the creation of customized, multi-segment lights on curved panels in new configurations such as three-dimensional structures or ‘invisible’ light.
SYNIOS® P1515: Expressive and dramatic rear light designs
The SYNIOS® P1515 product family from ams OSRAM enables a homogeneous appearance in extended light bars and other automotive rear lighting applications, making their design far simpler. By replacing top looker LEDs with SYNIOS® P1515 side lookers, a particularly high level of homo-geneity can be achieved with the same depth of optical stack as for top looker LEDs, but with substantially fewer LEDs and LED drivers. With the same number of SYNIOS® P1515 LEDs as in a top looker-based arrangement, an RCL (Rear Combination Light) or turn indicator can be created with a far thinner and simpler optical assembly. This opens up new potential to create dramatic and distinctive shapes in new RCL designs.
XLS: eXchangeable LED lightSource
The ECE standard (UN R128) platform makes it easy to switch between modules from different suppliers and is expected to provide economic benefits thanks to standardization for high-volume production. This product, which has been standardized for in-vehicle use, will not only be offered as a highly reliable off-the-shelf product, but will also ensure stable long-term availability and strengthen the supply chain.
In addition, ams OSRAM’s state-of-the-art portfolio comprises a comprehensive range of standard LED components that are essential for vehicle lighting, such as red/amber/white modules for signal lights and white modules for forward lights (fog lights).
OSP: Open System Protocol
Ambient lighting is becoming more and more important for car interior design with backlit trim and dynamic animations. In modern vehicles, it is mostly used to implement functions and seamlessly interact with Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs).
To deal with this complexity at a reasonable cost in the centralized system architectures of vehicles, automotive suppliers need a reliable, flexible, and easy-to-implement communication backbone and system architecture.
For this purpose, ams OSRAM has developed its so-called Open System Protocol (OSP). This groundbreaking protocol is open to everybody and free of any license fees. It is based on a mas-ter-slave architecture, allowing users to control up to 1,000 devices individually in a daisy chain topology. The OSP ecosystem is an open protocol platform which can be used by anybody with-out any limitation. This means no licenses and full access to protocol descriptions. Partners can participate in the network, implement the protocol in their own devices and differentiate themselves from competitors by adding their own new features. ams OSRAM has already developed its two first products ready for the OSP ecosystem: OSIRE® E3731i, the intelligent RGB module, and the AS1163 standalone intelligent driver (SAID).
OSIRE® E3731i: Top-notch RGB LEDs for modern ambient lighting
The OSIRE® product family offers individually addressable LED chips for maximum flexibility in terms of color point, driver selection and interconnection in interior ambient lighting. Thanks to their low profile, these products are ideally suited for coupling into thin lightguides, thus enabling ultra-compact designs. At the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2024, ams OSRAM will present a dy-namic illumination demo with hundreds of intelligent OSIRE® E3731i RGB LEDs.
AS1163 SAID: High-efficiency LED driver ICs
The AS1163 SAID (Stand-Alone Intelligent Driver) is a mixed-signal IC optimized for dynamic light-ing applications. Mainly designed to operate 3 RGB LEDs, this state-of-the-art SAID comes with 9 separate LED drivers. Each driver features an independent PWM dynamic range of up to 16 bits. Just like the OSIRE® E3731i, the AS1163 supports the OSP bus (Open System Protocol) for data communication. Since these two groundbreaking products from ams OSRAM are fully compatible with each other, the AS1163 can also be operated in a daisy-chain configuration, even in combina-tion with OSIRE® E3731i units. In addition, the AS1163 supports the parallel operation of up to 8 OSP daisy chains. Complex dynamic lighting scenarios can thus be implemented in an even more flexible and cost-efficient way.
To ensure safe LED operation, the AS1163 enables current and voltage measurements to be per-formed on the individual LEDs and can be optionally used as an I²C gateway. For this purpose, I²C ICs (I²C sensors, I²C actuators and I²C memories) can be connected to the SAID and addressed via the OSP bus.
LiDAR: Light Detection and Ranging
ams OSRAM implements highly innovative technology for wavelength stability over a temperature range on its Edge-Emitting Laser diodes (EELs). This technology enables LiDAR manufactures to apply a much narrower bandpass filter on the RX side to dramatically improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
Simulations performed by ams OSRAM and market feedback suggest that this can result in up to a ~40% range increase thanks to a higher Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). The demonstrator of ams OSRAM will show how stable it is in comparison to conventional technology.
AS8579: The trailblazing capacitive sensor from ams OSRAM
The future is vehicles with autonomous driving ability, for which several driver monitoring features are necessary. One typical application for autonomous driving is the detection of human hands on the steering wheel. The AS8579 capacitive sensor from ams OSRAM is based on a novel capaci-tive measurement technology that enables the separation of the resistive and capacitive parts (amount/share/proportion) of the impedance measured over the sensor element. Even when wear-ing gloves or in humid conditions, this advanced technology more reliably detects the presence of the driver’s hands than is possible with the charge-discharge method of capacitive sensing in use in vehicles today. This means that the AS8579 helps automotive manufacturers improve the safety of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), while also reducing the cost of the Hands-on Detection System (HoD): the AS8579 can sense the impedance of the existing steering wheel’s heater element.
ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global player in intelligent sensors and emitters, and DOMINANT Opto Technologies, a leading Malaysian manufacturer of automotive LED solutions, have unveiled a collaborative partnership aimed at integrating ams OSRAM’s Open System Protocol (OSP) into DOMINANT Opto Technologies’ upcoming generation of intelligent RGB LEDs tailored for automotive ambient lighting. This partnership seeks to foster innovation by inviting even more collaborators and promoting technological compatibility in the automotive lighting sector.
Introduced by ams OSRAM in 2023, the OSP is an open, license-free communication technology for connecting RGB LEDs, sensors, and microcontrollers from diverse manufacturers. DOMINANT Opto Technologies' commitment to integrating OSP into its upcoming products validates the protocol's position as a universal method for connecting intelligent LEDs in vehicles. This major step facilitates a more resilient supply chain for automotive manufacturers, allowing them to source ambient lighting LEDs and components from various vendors without reconfiguring system communication when switching suppliers.
New possibilities for ambient lighting: mood, warnings, information
As automotive interior design evolves into a 'third living space,' ambient lighting takes on a new significance. Dynamic ambient lighting, controlled intelligently with animation effects, color changes, and intensity variations, serves various purposes – such as setting moods, conveying information, displaying warnings, and effectively presenting the car's branding. These functionalities demand intelligent RGB LEDs and a communication protocol compatible with any microcontroller's standard serial interface, capable of carrying high-frequency control signals.
The OSP infrastructure, introduced alongside ams OSRAM's OSP-compliant intelligent RGB LED, the OSIRE® E3731i, fulfils these requirements. With DOMINANT Opto Technologies also joining the OSP ecosystem, automotive manufacturers can from now on have a second source of OSP-compatible LEDs – a fascinating step that fosters innovation and flexibility in ambient lighting solutions.
OSP in action: OSIRE® E3731i
The OSIRE® E3731i, the industry's first OSP-compliant intelligent RGB LED, features an integrated ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) that drives three RGB emitters, ensuring excellent color homogeneity by providing measurement data for automatic color calibration. This calibration is crucial, especially for long strings of LEDs throughout the car interior. The OSIRE® E3731i supports daisy-chain configurations with up to 1000 LEDs in a single string, requiring just two communication and two power lines each, streamlining implementation and potentially enabling single-layer PCB designs.
AEC-Q102-qualified and compliant with automotive EMC requirements, the OSIRE® E3731i is setting benchmarks for intelligent RGB LEDs in the automotive sector.
DOMINANT Opto Technologies is delighted to join the OSP ecosystem. This enables DOMINANT to expand its existing seddLED product portfolio to fulfill various customer requirements. The seddLED+ A3H will be the first OSP-compliant intelligent RGB LED to be launched on the market. The target is to have a prototype sample available in Q3 of FY2024.
Joint vision for the future: OSP adoption
Both ams OSRAM and DOMINANT Opto Technologies emphasize the importance of OSP as a common base for the architecture of their future intelligent RGB LEDs. Recognizing the industry's need for multiple sourcing options, OSP facilitates easy and cost-efficient communication within LED chains, enabling car manufacturers to choose from various vendors without redesigning architectures.
While maintaining unique features in their individual solutions, ams OSRAM and DOMINANT Opto Technologies aim to increase compatibility levels for future generations of LEDs and sensors. While formal standardization is not necessary, it remains an option for discussion within the automotive lighting community. The OSP protocol is open and free of license fees, inviting additional partners to join and contribute to fostering innovation and compatibility within the automotive lighting community.
ams OSRAM has introduced a product innovation that helps manufacturers of automotive lighting modules and systems to increase production throughput and efficiency while achieving very high consistency in optical quality and performance.
- Innovative Data Matrix Code provides individual ID linked to measurement data for each LED
- Provision of data per LED reduces manufacturers’ optical calibration effort, simplifying their production process
- Launch of DMC initiative reflects ams OSRAM’s strategy of adding value to LEDs
ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters, has introduced a product innovation that helps manufacturers of automotive lighting modules and systems to increase their production throughput and efficiency while achieving very high consistency in optical quality and performance.
The innovation, referred to as DMC (Data Matrix Code), is based on a unique, machine-readable code printed on top of each LED package. DMC is already available today for some members of the OSIRE® family of automotive LEDs. The code on the package links to individual data for each LED production unit: color coordinates, luminous intensity and forward voltage at two currents.
This two-current setting gives manufacturers the widest range of dimming options for day and night modes, while meeting the automotive industry’s strict requirements for color point stability.
Anita Wenzl, Senior Product Marketing Manager of ams OSRAM, emphasizes: ”ams OSRAM was the first LED manufacturer to provide a link to the measurement data of each individual LED through a code printed onto the LED itself. Our DMC innovation supports manufacturers in increasing their production throughput. Furthermore, it reduces their need to invest in cost-intensive optical test equipment and the technical skills required to operate it.“
LED+: Greater accuracy through unique data adds precious value to LEDs
With the introduction of DMC, ams OSRAM increases the value of its automotive LEDs as conclusive data effectively support digitalized and automated factory processes. DMC is now available in three automotive LEDs:
- The OSIRE® E5515 is an RGB ‘sidelooker’ LED designed for modern ambient lighting in the vehicle interior. Supplied in a white low-profile, surface-mount package, the OSIRE® E5515 is ideally suited for coupling into thin light guides. In addition, the housing material´s temperature stability has been optimized for improved compatibility with processes based on IMSE® (In-Mold Structural Electronics). The OSIRE® E5515 is available under the part number KRTB AELPS2.32.
- The OSIRE® E3323 is an RGB top surface-emitting LED for ambient lighting applications in the vehicle interior. With dimensions as small as 3.3 mm x 2.3 mm x 0.7 mm, the OSIRE® E3323 is the smallest of its kind in the OSIRE® family – for even more flexible designs than is currently possible with a delta or inline RGB chip configuration. The OSIRE® E3323 products can be ordered under the part numbers KRTB DWLM31.32 and KRTB DWLM32.32.
The DMC will be imprinted on every manufactured LED and manufacturers are free to choose whether to use the data or not. This value-adding feature is likely to be rolled out to other OSIRE® family members in the future.
For more information: OSIRE®
We are thrilled to be part of Light + Building in Frankfurt from March 3 to 8. Sense the power of light with ams OSRAM at Light + Building. Visit our booth 8.0, F30 in hall 8 to discover how we're shaping the future of Home and Building Automation.
In today's digital age, Home and Building Automation plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and security of critical infrastructure. At ams OSRAM, we're proud to provide high-quality products that serve as the foundation for new technical solutions.
ams OSRAM will showcase a unique portfolio of innovative LEDs, spectral and ambient light sensors. Our miniaturized and efficient solutions offer our customers infinite design possibilities, greater cost-savings, outstanding performance, and maximum accuracy – at workplaces and at home.
We will showcase new demos on following topics and areas:
Join us at Light + Building to explore these groundbreaking innovations and witness firsthand how ams OSRAM is shaping the future of intelligent lighting, and home and building automation. You can find us in Booth 8.0, F30, Hall 8.
- LED outdoor lighting solutions from ams OSRAM: Increasing safety and quality of life at workplaces, on public streets and squares.
- Professional lighting solutions: Offering outstanding performance, reliability, and industry-leading lifetime, even in harsh conditions.
- Indoor lighting solutions: State-of-the-art LED lighting and sensing solutions enriching living and working spaces.
- ams OSRAM Horticulture solutions: Demonstrating ams OSRAM leadership in horticulture lighting and ambient light sensing.
- Home and Building Automation (HABA) is all about critical infrastructure. Our high-quality products are the foundation for technical solutions end users can trust. Digitalization of buildings and homes by combining light and sensing technologies.
- ams OSRAM UV-C portfolio to address disinfection applications with efficacy, reliability, and cost efficiency
Sense the power of light! ams OSRAM is excited to be at Light + Building in Frankfurt am Main from March 3 to 8. At the trade fair, we will present to you our innovations from the fields of street lighting, building management, location within buildings, UV-C applications, and horticulture. Also, our broad portfolio of innovative LEDs, spectral sensors, and ambient light sensors is part of our exhibition. We are looking forward to seeing you at our booth: Hall 8, booth 8.0, F30.
Premstaetten, Austria, and Munich, Germany (February 20, 2024) -- “Sense the power of light”: In line with this motto, ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters, will showcase its cutting-edge technologies at Light + Building in Frankfurt am Main from March 3 to 8, 2024.
At the trade fair, the focus will be on innovations from the fields of street lighting, building management, location within buildings, horticulture. The broad portfolio of innovative LEDs, spectral sensors and ambient light sensors is simply ideal for designing miniaturized and efficient solutions. Whether in working or home environments, customers thus benefit from a huge number of design options ensuring excellent performance and maximum precision at all times. Latest-generation LED outdoor lighting solutions enhance both safety and quality of life on public roads and squares, whereas people counting and facial recognition via infrared cameras are constantly gaining in importance in home and building automation.
State-of-the-art LED technology to optimize lighting quality and performance in cities
The Power of Light" is particularly important in public spaces: high-quality lighting ensures that people feel safe, at ease and comfortable. With the AXIA 3 EVO, Schréder is presenting an innovative and powerful luminaire, using OSLON® Square by ams OSRAM. It is specifically designed to meet the requirements of residential streets and living spaces where well-being and safety are key criteria. The premium chip technology ensures excellent performance, long life and high reliability even under harsh operating conditions. Another major plus point: the compact light engine enables significant energy savings!
The innovative Levante 2.0 platform solution created by our customer Cariboni Group is based on a complete, outstandingly flexible system for lighting empty and full urban locations, such as pathways, spaces and architecture. At the core of this sophisticated luminaire is the latest OSCONIQ® S5050 generation, boasting superior efficiency, long service life and high reliability, even in extremely harsh climatic conditions. Developers are free to combine any light distribution (street and asymmetrical) with any fixing system to create ingenious and flexible configurations for any field of application.
Perfectly staged: The latest generation of the OSLON® Pure family opens up numerous individual options for retail customers
Impressive lighting experiences, accent lighting or signal effects: Retail lighting solutions can create positive emotions, encourage customers to make purchases, and showcase certain products in just the right light. The OSLON® Pure product family boasts a large color spectrum and an excellent lumen density. This makes it ideal for use in retail lighting spots – especially in sales spaces where extremely compact LEDs with a very high light output are required to showcase goods in the perfect light. The effortless scalability of the LEDs gives our customers great flexibility in composing lighting solutions optimally tailored to suit individual needs. With its latest OSLON® Pure 1414, ams OSRAM is now launching a next generation of OSLON® Pure 1010 featuring strongly improved performance: simply perfect for professional use in indoor and retail lighting applications, but also ideal for special fields such as architectural and stage lighting, where a high luminous flux density is key.
Intelligent networking of living spaces: That’s what our daily lives will be like in the future, thanks to smart digitalization
The digitalization of buildings is progressing continuously, providing for more comfort, safety and protection while at the same time reducing energy consumption. As a major trendsetter and a reliable partner, ams OSRAM will even present several highlights from its portfolio within the scope of various product demonstrations at Light + Building this year. The highly compact MIRA050 image sensor is designed for 2D and 3D applications in industrial image processing. It mainly stands out due to its small size, user-friendly configurability, and superior sensitivity.
ams OSRAM’s new premium partner Calumino incorporates this innovative sensor family from the company in its Artificial Intelligence-supported thermal sensors that generate individual data records for various scenarios: from data privacy-compliant people counting in rooms to buildings to critical asset monitoring.
The Teknique partner company even uses solutions from ams OSRAM: the BELAGO laser dot projector which projects a grid of small infrared dots onto a user's face; the OSLON Black Infrared (IR) flood illuminator which emits infrared (IR) light onto the face, as well as various image sensor options from the MIRA family which capture an 3D infrared image of the user's face. This is then computed into a generic 3D map which can be further processed in higher level biometry algorithms.
Producing sustainably and locally grown food with Horticulture Grow Light for vertical farming: harvest-fresh fruit and vegetables, whatever the season of the year
In light of climatic change, a continually growing world population and increasing urbanization, vertical farming is becoming more and more relevant as a simple and sustainable solution for the growing of crop plants. Appropriate lighting and sensor solutions enable efficient monitoring of plant growth, optimize yields, minimize the use of fertilizers and reduce energy costs. To meet the food supply needs of today’s world, ams OSRAM as technology leader is continuously driving efficiency and performance straight forward and preparing the launch of new innovative products for 2024. Experts of ams OSRAM are available at the L+B trade fair and will readily provide interested visitors with first-hand information on the future horticulture options.
Introducing the OSLON® Submount PL Gen3: These top-contact LEDs are versatile and cost-effective light sources for cost-optimized lamp systems in entry-level vehicles, EVs, or standard equipment. They offer the flexibility to choose between two different LEA sizes, (1030µm)² and (1150µm)², allowing you to prioritize either a combination of luminance and efficiency or pure efficiency.
The OSLON® Submount PL is a versatile solution that can meet various output and adaptability requirements in different ambient conditions. It provides a uniform light pattern, thermal stability, and impressive brightness. With its top contact LED design, the OSLON® Submount PL allows for direct mounting onto a heatsink, resulting in significant cost reduction for the PCB. The OSLON® Submount PL is capable of meeting a wide range of output and adaptability requirements, while also offering a uniform light pattern, thermal stability, and high brightness.
Features
- Latest chip and conversion technology Improved brightness performance
- Two different LEA sizes (1030µm²) and (1150µm²) available
- Ceramic package with top electrode contacts
- Direct attach of whole LED Backside on heatsink
- Compatible with other Submounts
- New FWL Single Color Binning
Benefits
- Improved brightness performance
- Freedom of choice no matter if you need highest efficacy or best combination of luminance and efficacy
- Best thermal management because whole bottom side of the device can be used for heat dissipation
- Lower head lamp cost due to no need of high thermal performance PCBs
- Easy replacement
- It is possible to order just one single bin
ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters, today launched a series of sidelooker, low-power LEDs that simplify design, are easier to implement and enables the creation of a homogeneous appearance in extended light bars and other automotive rear lighting applications.
Today, an automobile rear combination lamp (RCL) requires a complex and deep optical assembly consisting of diffusers and light guides to spread the bright points of light from conventional toplooker LEDs without producing visible dark and bright spots.
By replacing toplooker LEDs with the SYNIOS® P1515 sidelookers, automotive manufacturers can achieve a smooth, homogeneous appearance across the width of the vehicle. With the same number of LEDs as in a toplooker-based arrangement, an RCL or turn indicator can be produced with a far thinner and simpler optical assembly. This opens up new potential to create dramatic and distinctive shapes in new RCL designs.
Alternatively, a homogeneous appearance can be achieved with the same depth of optical stack as for toplooker LEDs, but with substantially fewer LEDs and LED drivers. With this option, the lamp manufacturer benefits from a reduced bill-of-materials cost and a simpler circuit configuration.
“With the introduction of this sidelooker innovation, ams OSRAM is bringing new value to manufacturers of automotive rear lighting – it enables superior optical performance at lower cost. ams OSRAM simulations indicate a design based on the SYNIOS® P1515 can reduce the number of LED units and drivers required by as much as 66 percent1 compared to equivalent toplooker-based designs while maintaining a very high level of homogeneity,” said Michael Lobenhofer, Product Marketing Manager for automotive exterior lighting at ams OSRAM.
“The innovative operation of the SYNIOS® P1515 LEDs also enables the design of new super-sleek rear light bars that enhance the aesthetic appeal of the product to discerning car buyers.”
The AEC-Q102 qualified SYNIOS® P1515 LEDs produce a side-emission output with uniform 360° light intensity all round the device. Light is also emitted from the top of the LED, but at lower intensity than from the sides, to ensure that applications such as extended rear light bars can be easily realized with no bright or dark spots.
The side-emission pattern of the SYNIOS® P1515 LEDs is enabled by proprietary ams OSRAM optical packaging technology. ams OSRAM sidelooker LEDs are already widely used in the backlighting for high-performance automotive displays.
The SYNIOS® P1515 family is available for sampling in red (621 nm), super-red (633 nm) and yellow (587 nm) now. Production volumes are available now. For more information, go to Automotive & Mobility page.
