Samsung lens-attached LED modules enter volume production
“As LED’s penetration in the lighting industry increases, it is clear that enabling slimmer fixtures is an important area of market differentiation, an area where Samsung LAMs deliver the most efficient, homogeneous design solutions in LED lighting today,” explained Bangwon Oh, senior vice president of strategic marketing team, LED Business, Samsung Electronics. “With its LAM series, Samsung is rolling out leading-edge concepts in LED lighting design to the mass market and will continue to do so later this year and beyond.”
Samsung’s LAM series is embracing a state-of-the-art concept in LED modules. The LAM solutions are created by attaching lenses on top of the LED packages in each module. The lenses add wide beam angles for their light sources using advanced optic technology, so that each LED package can brighten a space larger than that of conventional packages.
The LAM series makes use of technology from Samsung LED packages for flat-TV backlight units (BLUs). In 2012, when LEDs became popular in BLUs for LCD TVs, Samsung created LED BLU modules combining lenses with LED packages to increase overall light output.
Using a Samsung LAM solution adds more design flexibility for a wide range of luminaires. Unlike fluorescent and incandescent lamps, conventional LED lighting features individual LED packages, each of which emits light. As a result, depending on the distance between the diffusion plate and the LED modules in the fixture, the spaces between packages on the module can appear as dark spots. To prevent this, the diffusion plate has to be placed further away from the module, which unfortunately increases the thickness of the fixture.
The Samsung LAM series uses diffusion-improving optic technology which allows the diffusion plate to be placed much closer to the module. The technology can be placed as close as 35 mm, which is a smaller space than the 80 to 100 mm needed for conventional T5/T8 fluorescent tubes.
Samsung plans to spotlight the LAM series at the upcoming Light and Building trade fair being held in Frankfurt, Germany, March 31 – April 4, 2014.
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