150 lumens per watt; Closer than ever
From their conception and first production in the 1960’s, LEDs have been the perfect piece for for every indicator imaginable and still are today. At first 15 Lumens per watt LEDs were far from bright and could never be used for general lighting applications. Incandescent’s and the fairly new technology Compact Fluorescent’s dominated the market.
In 2003 a new type of LED was demonstrated by the company Cree, Inc. to provide a commercially packaged white light giving 65 Lumens per watt. This new technology became the brightest white LED commercially available at the time, and more than four times as efficient as standard incandescent Light Bulbs. Shortly thereafter an 80 Lumens per watt LED was created and is the main concept diode of which our LED Line utilizes.
We have sucessfully created a LED chip capable of 156 Lumens per watt. Large producton is expected to commence by 2012.