- 06th November 2006

Side-View LED Chips Enable Thinner Displays for Mobiles

BridgeLux, Inc., released its new BSV Series side-view LED chip product line. With the addition of the BSV series to its product portfolio, BridgeLux brings leading-edge performance and cost-effectiveness to the industry-standard side-view approach used in backlighting applications.

The BridgeLux BSV Series LED chips are based upon BridgeLux’s patented structure for elongated geometry under US Patent Number 6,869,812. (See BridgeLux 10/17/06 press release for additional information on this patent). The elongated chips, available in 10x18 mil and 10x23 mil sizes, feature a rectangular shape, enabling thinner displays for mobile phones, PDAs, digital still cameras, MP3 players and notebook PCs. When combined with commercially available phosphors, the BSV series blue chips will deliver 1500 mcd typical luminous intensity for a packaged white LED, allowing it to serve in a wide variety of white-light solutions in backlight applications. The chips are currently in qualification with selected customers, with volume production quantities available in late 2006.

According to Dr. Robert C. Walker, CEO of BridgeLux, “This is an exciting milestone for BridgeLux as we extend our high power illumination LED technology to smaller size LED chips used in mobile applications. The BSV series will enable our customers to greatly expand their offerings in the backlight market. It’s important to note that this side-view product line is just one of our product families based on the targeted intellectual property investments that we have developed to penetrate specific markets and applications.”

Web: http://www.bridgelux.com.