Cree, Inc. announces a breakthrough new lighting-class LED that canobsolete energy-inefficient light bulbs. The XLamp® MPL EasyWhite(TM) LEDoffers the performance, color consistency and lumen density to displaceconventional light sources, all in the industry's smallest package.Featuring Cree's unique EasyWhite innovation, the LEDs are specified liketraditional light sources--simply indicate the desired color temperature andbrightness.The multi-chip XLamp MPL EasyWhite LED is optimized for directional lightingapplications, including PAR- or BR-style light bulbs. With proper systemdesign, the MPL EasyWhite LED can deliver the required light output for a3000-K, 75-Watt equivalent BR-30 light bulb, but would consume 78-percentless energy than traditional incandescent technology. This would meet theefficacy and lumen-output requirements for integral LED lamps as defined byENERGY STAR®."Cree has virtually eliminated the need to learn and understand LED binsthanks to EasyWhite color temperatures," said Fred Dorrani, president, T^3Mark, Inc., an LED integrator specializing in light engines. "Combined withthe single-light-source design of the LED, it can simplify design andmanufacturing, speeding overall time-to-market and improving productconsistency.""Cree is raising the bar on LED brightness, efficacy and ease of use. We areproviding the MPL LEDs the way the lighting industry has wanted to buyLEDs," said Paul Thieken, Cree, director of marketing, LED components."Customers using EasyWhite color temperatures can shorten the design andmanufacturing cycle for new products, while improving color consistency andreducing pixelation in their product. The MPL EasyWhite LED further broadensCree's portfolio of application-optimized LEDs, specifically designed tomeet the needs of the lighting industry."MPL EasyWhite LEDs are offered in 2700-K, 3000-K, 3500-K and 4000-K colortemperatures that are in the center of the respective ANSI C78.377-2008color bins. Due to the superior color consistency of the MPL EasyWhite LEDs,the color space occupied by each of these color temperatures is 75-percentsmaller than the total area of the corresponding ANSI C78.377 color bins.This can reduce component count and eliminate complex mixing recipes and thepixilation often associated with other LED designs.The XLamp MPL EasyWhite LED features up to 1500 lumens at 250 mA and acompact 12-mm x 13-mm footprint, which is 72 percent smaller than thenearest-competing LED component.
