The Osram Ostar Stage, an LED designed for stage lighting, has been released by Osram Opto Semiconductors. Although the LED is only 30% larger than previous members of the product family, it provides more than twice the lumen output. The LED contains 2mm2 high-current chips per colour that can handle a maximum of 4.5A per chip. This will enable moving heads for stage and exhibition lighting to be more powerful and more compact at the same ti...

Pioneering work is being undertaken to develop green LEDs, in particular diminishing what is known as the “green gap” phenomenon – the significant drop in efficacy in the green spectral range. The “Hi-Q-LED” project funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been leading the way.

The surface mountable Displix Oval is an LED developed by Osram Opto Semiconductors with oval light-radiating characteristicsfor large-screen video walls, petrol station price signs and digital road signs. Thanks to a compact housing measuring just 2.1 x 2.7 x 1.5 mm (including lens), almost twice as many LEDs can now be mounted on a board than with ordinary radial diodes, doubling both the pixel density and the resolution of displays.

Designed for automatic fitness tracking, the SFH 7050 optical sensor has been introduced by Osram Opto Semiconductors. The sensor, which is suitable for smart watches and fitness armbands, simplifies personal heart rate or pulse rate measurements. To reduce power consumption and increase signal quality, the sensor contains green, red and infrared light emitting diodes.

Matchbox Demo: Intelligent Proximity Sensing by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors features the SFH 7770 E6.

Providing a much longer service life due to a substantial reduction in cooling requirements, the Oslon Black SFH 4715A IRED has been introduced by Osram Opto Semiconductors. The IRED offers a typical electro-optical efficiency of 48%, a figure which the company claims is an industry first for an opto-electronic element.

Osram Opto Semiconductors has introduced the first compact laser multi-chip package. The new PLPM4 450 module can pack up to 20 blue laser chips into a single "butterfly" package for projection applications. Instead of taking the laborious approach and constructing a light source from individual laser diodes, it is now possible to reduce the complexity of laser projectors significantly.

An online tool for selecting LEDs for applications has been launched by Osram Opto Semiconductors. The LED Information Base allows users to quickly and easily find suitable components and obtain the specifications in digital format that they need for their design projects.

Owing to the low-profile rectangular shape, the Synios E4014 from Osram Opto Semiconductors enables light to be injected into light guides so that a wide range of design ideas can be realised. The mid-power light emitting diodes also have an impressively robust plastic package, a very uniform distribution of light, and an excellent price/performance ratio. The LEDs are intended primarily for visually enhancing white goods such as a...

Modern LED luminaires which are energy-efficient and very easy to install - with a long lifespan and proven OSRAM quality and for almost every application: This is the OSRAM LED luminaire range Essentials. NEPTUNE LED luminaires are functional jet water-proof (IP 65) for surroundings where luminaires must be protected from humidity, dust, splash water or possible vibrations.

Enabling remote control functionality to be incorporated in a lower profile, a flush-mountable infrared LED has been unveiled by Osram Opto Semiconductors. The side-looking T-shaped Midled SFH 4140 offers impressive high radiant intensity and protrudes only a fraction of a millimeter from the PC board. Now an infrared transmitter can be integrated into extra-thin smartphones or tablet computers.

Osram Opto Semiconductors extends its Duris "S" LED series by the Duris S 8. The new multi-chip, high-power LED offers lots of light from a small surface. It is primarily used in directional and omnidirectional retrofits, as well as in LED spots in indoor lighting. It is particularly suitable for directional lighting in office and business premises, as well as in the home. Rutronik distributes the new Duris S 8 in two versions as of now. &nb...

Osram is expanding its portfolio of LED lamps with a number of innovative products and thus giving its customers what is yet its largest selection. The current range encompasses some 60 different lamp types. Apart from retrofit lamps in classical shapes, the new LED portfolio also includes reflector lamps. “With our expanded LED portfolio, we have LED lamps to suit every purpose at a very good price/performance ratio. Customers save money a...

The main aims of the common project are to improve the efficiency and service life of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). In addition, production costs have to be minimised to ensure that OLEDs can be successful in the general lighting mass market. In the past years, the participating companies have achieved innovative advantages that are intended to be expanded as a part of the funded project.

Colors are playing an increasingly important role in the automotive sector. Now it's not only the exterior color of the vehicle that you can choose, you can also tailor the interior lighting to your individual taste. Thanks to the very wide blue color range of the new RGB MultiLED, lighting designers have a free choice of colors for ambient lighting, including customer-specific colors. Color design now covers cluster lighting to an increasing ext...

Multifunctional devices such as tablets, ultrabooks and even smartphones need high brightness levels and good color rendering without draining the batteries too quickly. The new MicroSideled 3806 from Osram Opto Semiconductors is designed specifically to meet these requirements. It is extremely efficient in white and also in blue, offers consistent brightness throughout its lifetime of 15,000 hours, and can withstand high temperature and high cur...

Research project focuses on adaptive forward lighting systems to increase driver and passenger safety. Adaptive forward lighting, in other words, glare-free camera-controlled headlamps that react instantly to changing conditions at night, will be helping to keep drivers and their passengers safer, as a consortium of high-tech automotive heavyweights design and build additional intelligent functions. The key to this complex functionality is the i...

Osram Opto Semiconductors has expanded its portfolio of proximity and ambient light sensors with a new, extremely powerful version with low power consumption. The compact SFH 7776 digital sensor registers the ambient brightness – even behind dark smartphone covers – and prevents unintentional responses from the touch screen during telephone calls. This makes it even easier for smartphone designers to control the backlighting and touch functio...

The new infrared (IRED) Oslon black SFH 4716S from Osram Opto Semiconductors is one of the most powerful IREDs on the market, with an optical output of 1030 milliwatts (mW) and a beam angle of 150 degrees. It offers perfect illumination at a range of a few yards/meters and is ideal for gesture detection systems linked to computer games or for optical safety systems in the automotive sector. And with external optics and tight focusing, even distan...

The new Osram Ostar Stage LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors offer high luminance of 48 million candelas per square meter (Mcd/m²) and tunable color tones from cold white to warm white. Combined with their extremely low-profile design and glass cover with anti-reflective coating, they provide the basis for more compact spotlights with an extremely narrow beam. The Ostar Stage LEDs are ideal for use in moving head spotlights on stage, for booth ...