Philips Luxeon Z LED

The Luxeon Z LED aims to simplify development of products such as wall-washers, moving head entertainment spotlights and remote phosphor applications and give engineers in the entertainment, architectural and specialty lighting segments a modular approach to developing products.

The ultracompact, non-encapsulated package gives designers flexibility in packaging and optical designs, helping to push the boundaries of next generation luminaire design. It is the smallest power LED with the highest lumen density package available, claims the company. Designers can create specialised 2 x 2, 3 x 2 or 6 x 1 mono or multicolour luminaires with the ability to mount as many as 250 of the high-lumen Luxeon Zs in one square inch.

The non-encapsulated chips are readily adaptable to custom optics, eliminating the need for complex, inefficient secondary lenses. The company expects that a full line of semicustom optics will also be available in the near future.

At a size that is 80% smaller than traditional power LED, the Luxeon Z is the company’s smallest LED package to date. It has a total footprint of just 2.2 mm² and high-lumen output across a full spectrum of colours from 440-670 nanometres, including white.