Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced components, introduced inFlux, a new lineup of high-flux (extremely bright), linear LED modules optimized for industrial lighting applications such as plants, parking lots and warehouses. The LED modules serve as a replacement for conventional T8 and T5HO (high output) tubes and are suitable for high-flux LED luminaires covering up to 40,000lm (luminous flux*).

“By providing a wide variety of installation layout options and brightness intensities, our new inFlux linear module will deliver greater design flexibility and convenience for lighting designers, as well as high performance and reliability for fixture manufacturers,” said Jaewook Kwon, Vice President, Lighting Marketing Group, LED Business Team, Samsung Electronics. “We will continue to reinforce our well-differentiated LED lighting engine lineups to be able to meet more diverse market needs.”

The Samsung inFlux LED module incorporates the company’s mid-power LED package (LM301A), which features advanced “flip chip” technology that enables a shorter junction-to-base distance and less thermal barrier layers in each package, while avoiding the need for metal wire bonding. This leads to lowering the thermal resistance of the packages, and permits each package to handle a wide range of current with improved light efficacy. Fully embracing the flip chip LED approach, the new inFlux modules can provide better light performance, wider current alternatives and much lower heat resistance than modules using a conventional epi-up chip package.

High-efficacy mid-power packages bring additional benefits to customers, compared to using high-power packages. Mid-power packages can be placed more densely than high-power packages, which results in minimizing light deviation and increasing light uniformity of the inFlux module lineup. By utilizing a mid-power package, the inFlux lineup also brings cost benefits to manufacturers.

Samsung inFlux modules are available in six product types. Each type comes in a different flux range between 1,310lm and 9380lm with a length option, either 280 millimeters (mm) or 560mm, and offers several CCT color variations, including 3000, 3500, 4000 and 5000K. These product alternatives will offer lighting fixture makers more design flexibility in addressing a wide variety of application requirements. Through a combination of different module types, LED fixture manufacturers can vary their lamp flux from 6,000lm to 40,000lm.

The Samsung inFlux modules have been UL/cUL certified (U.S.), as well as CE and ENEC certified (Europe), and carry a 10-year warranty.

Samsung also makes it easier for fixture makers to take their lighting products through industry certification processes, thanks to cooperative relationships that Samsung LED has established with recognized certification companies in the U.S., Korean, European and Chinese markets. These “partnerships” will simplify complex procedures, reduce time to market and ultimately have a positive impact on overall costs.

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*Note:  Luminous flux (lumen or lm) is a measure of the total amount of light (lumens) that a light source emits.

Samsung Electronics introduced the LM301A, a flip-chip-based mid-power LED package that can operate at anywhere from 0.2 watts to 1 watt — providing a wide range of current options, resulting in much improved light efficacy. The package was announced at a press conference, in conjunction with LIGHTFAIR International 2015, being held in New York, May 5-7.

Coming in a 3.0mm by 3.0mm form factor that is increasingly popular in LED lighting applications today, the new LM301A’s lower and wider current alternatives are a result of Samsung flip chip technology, which allows the LED chip to have the shortest distance from the junction to the base of a package, and eliminates the need for metal wire bonding in the packaging process. These changes enable much lower heat resistance compared to conventional epi-up chip technology – an approximate five percent temperature drop per watt within a more desirable 25°C to 85°C temperature range.

“Designed with advanced flip chip technology, the new LM301A overcomes what had been significant performance and power limitations of conventional mid-power lighting LED packages,” said Dr. Jacob Tarn, Executive Vice President, LED Lighting Business Team, Samsung Electronics. “We will continue to strengthen our technology leadership in the market by launching highly competitive, next generation LED products based on Samsung’s most innovative, market-proven LED technologies.”

Samsung’s new LM301A LED package offers the following light efficacy alternatives:

• 170lm/W efficacy in cool white (5000K CCT, CRI80+, 85°C and 65mA)
• 160lm/W efficacy in warm white (3000K CCT, CRI80+, 85°C and 65mA)
• 155lm/W efficacy in cool white (5000K CCT, CRI80+, 85°C, and 150mA)
• 145lm/W efficacy in warm white (3000K CCT, CRI80+, 85°C and 150mA)
• 130lm/W efficacy in cool white (5000K CCT, CRI80+, 85°C, and 350mA)
• 120lm/W efficacy in warm white (3000K CCT, CRI80+, 85°C and 350mA)

The light efficacy levels make the LM301A package well suited for diverse lighting applications ranging from ambient to high intensity lighting, such as high bays and outdoor lighting. In addition, the performance and cost-competiveness of the new mid-power package should also be well regarded by lighting fixture manufacturers.

The LM301A features Epoxy Mold Compound (EMC) packaging, which makes it more reliable and extends its lifespan. Compared to existing Polyphthalamide (PPA) and PCT materials now extensively used in LED packaging, Samsung’s EMC packaging offers more protection against heat and UV rays, making it suitable for high-luminance LED applications requiring higher wattage.

The new package also will support CCT (Correlated Color Temperature) specifications ranging from 2700K to 6500K.

The LM301A will be available beginning in July.