Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a leader in LED solid-state lighting components, announced new benchmarks for power LED brightness and efficacy with the release of the newest white Cree XLamp® 7090 power LED.
This new XLamp LED, available in volume quantities, produces luminous flux of up to 95 lumens or 85 lumens per watt at 350 mA, and up to 160 lumens at 700 mA.
The new XLamp LED was designed to enable general lighting applications, such as street lighting, retail high bay lighting and parking garage low bay lighting, as well as to vastly improve the light quality in consumer applications such as flashlights. LED technology has been sufficiently bright for many general illumination applications for some time.
“Cree LEDs are achieving efficacy levels formerly delivered only by the most efficient traditional lighting sources, including fluorescent bulbs. We have established a new class of LED performance,” notes Mike Dunn, Cree general manager and vice president, lighting and backlighting LEDs.
The Cree LED research and development efforts were enabled in part through funding from the Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program, within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and also in part through funding from the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Advanced Technology Program. Cree is also a charter member of the Department of Energy’s Solid-State Lighting Partnership with the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance, an organization of lighting manufacturers that provides input to enhance the manufacturing and commercialization focus of the Department’s solid-state lighting portfolio.
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