Components: Tiny Ultra-Bright Multicolor LEDs Feature 13- To 80-mcd Outputs

Nov. 15, 2004
The SMD 0603 TLM series of LEDs offers high brightness levels of 13 to 80 mcd in six colors (super red, orange, yellow, green, pure green, and blue) in a tiny 0603 form factor that's 1.6 by 0.8 by 0.6 mm. Built from...

The SMD 0603 TLM series of LEDs offers high brightness levels of 13 to 80 mcd in six colors (super red, orange, yellow, green, pure green, and blue) in a tiny 0603 form factor that's 1.6 by 0.8 by 0.6 mm. Built from aluminum-indium-gallium-phosphide (AlInGaP) and gallium-nitride (GaN) technologies, they feature low power consumption and can withstand electrostatic-discharge voltages up to 1 kV. All six color LEDs ensure even lighting levels with a luminous intensity ratio of 1.6 or less per unit. They're packaged in a lead-frame base and embedded in a clear epoxy. The 80° angle of half-intensity provides an extremely wide 160° viewing angle. In 100,000-piece quantities, pricing starts at $5, $6.50, and $17.50 per 100 units, depending on color.

Vishay Intertechnology Inc.www.vishay.com; (619) 336-0860
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Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.

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