IRVINE--- Toshiba Commercializes High Luminous Flux White Light LEDs for Alternative Lighting Solution
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, and its parent Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba), today announced a new generation of white light emitting diodes (LEDs) that achieves the industry's highest level of luminous flux for lighting used in either the home or office, decorative interior lighting in stores and LCD backlighting. The company is scheduled to ship samples of the new white LED beginning in July and start mass-production in October at an initial volume of 1 million pieces per month.
Toshiba's white LED, TL10W02-D, realizes a luminous flux of 60 lumens at 500mA (2 watts). This performance was achieved by improving mounting technology for the LED chip and improved heat dissipation with a low thermal resistance package. An optimized design of internal reflective structure improved the efficiency of the optical emission.
Alongside the TL10W02-D, Toshiba also announced the 30-lumen type, TL10W01-D, which is scheduled go into mass production in July. Both new LEDs adopt a compact package and are applicable to Lead (Pb)-Free(1) reflow soldering.
"The introduction of high luminous flux white LED is a significant milestone in the effort to make LEDs a viable alternative for a variety of lighting applications," said Masanobu Sato, business development manager, optoelectronics for TAEC.
Background of the Development
The luminous flux of White LEDs is achieving a higher, and longer operating life and lower power consumption which are ideal characteristics for future lighting solution alternatives to incandescent and fluorescent lamps. Toshiba has been developing these white LEDs to achieve higher luminous flux and optical efficiency, and will introduce them as alternatives to use as general lighting sources.
Pricing
Samples of Toshiba's TL10W02-D and TL10W01-D white LEDs are priced at $6.60 and $4.70, respectively.
Major Specifications of two New LEDs Part Name: TL10W02-D Luminous characteristics (typical): 60 lumen/500mA Chromaticity coordinate: Cx: 0.33, Cy: 0.32 Package size: 10.5 (D) x 5.0 (W) x 2.1 (H) mm, Lead (Pb)-Free
Part Name: TL10W01-D Function: Lighting and display sources Luminous characteristics (typical): 30 lumen/500mA Chromaticity coordinate: Cx: 0.33, Cy: 0.32 Package size: 10.5 (D) x 5.0 (W) x 2.1 (H) mm, Lead (Pb)-Free
* About TAEC
Combining quality and flexibility with design engineering expertise, TAEC brings a breadth of advanced, next-generation technologies to its customers. This broad offering includes memory and flash memory-based storage solutions, a broad range of discrete devices, displays, medical tubes, ASICs, custom SOCs, microprocessors, microcontrollers and wireless components for the computing, wireless, networking, automotive and digital consumer markets.
TAEC is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and a world leader in high-technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. For additional company and product information, please visit TAEC's website at chips.toshiba.com. For technical inquiries, please e-mail Tech.Questions@taec.toshiba.com.
(1) Toshiba defines "Lead(Pb)-Free" in accordance with current industry standards as not to exceed 0.1 percent 0.1 percent lead(Pb) by weight. This does not mean that Toshiba products that are labeled Lead (Pb)-Free are entirely free of lead (Pb).