OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Asia Ltd. has a new CEO. Louis Lam took over the company's Asian business at the beginning of December. He is also Vice President for worldwide sales of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. His predecessor Dr. Alfred Felder will in future be responsible for global sales of the business unit General Lighting at the parent company OSRAM AG.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors new LED, the Oslon Square, opens up a wide range of possible uses, including designer luminaires for the home or office, retrofits and street lights. The LED is available in many different versions with different color temperatures. It can be operated with different currents, making it extremely versatile. Its reflective package makes even better use of the light and increases system efficiency in all versions.

The higher regional court Karlsruhe confirmed that Malaysian LED manufacturer Dominant is illegally using or has used OSRAM AG technology with seven patents. As the court of first instance, the regional court Mannheim already reached the same verdict regarding three of these patents on July 25, 2007. OSRAM had sued the manufacturer on several patents and industrial properties. “The ruling of the court of appeal in Karlsruhe is an important conf...

OSRAM has recorded yet another important success with regard to research in the field of organic light diodes (OLED). The company’s researchers have developed so-called “flexible” OLED, which attain an efficiency of 32 lm/W – which is a record value. In so doing, after the rigid OLED, OSRAM has now also reached an important milestone on the road to broad commercial application for flexible OLED.

The new Power Topled with lens (SFH 4258S/4259S) from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has an 80 percent higher optical output than the standard version of the infrared LED – despite the same surface area and the same current. This boost comes from a special thin-film chip which, thanks to Nanostack technology, has not just one but two p-n junctions that are grown one on top of the other. The resultant increased range will above all benefit applicatio...

The latest Oslon SSL LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors provide up to 20 percent more output than their predecessors and offer improved thermal stability, particularly in Hyperred (660 nm). Eenergy-efficient applications such as commercial horticulture are therefore much more efficient. Behind this boost in performance lie the latest developments in Indium-Gallium-Aluminum-Phosphide chip technology (InGaAlP).

OSRAM has signed an agreement with Townsend Ventures, LLC to increase its stake in Encelium Technologies from 15 percent to 100 percent. This move will enhance the company’s position in two key global growth markets, LED based technologies and Light Management Systems (LMS). Encelium is an ideal complement to OSRAM’s General Lighting portfolio of energy-efficient lighting products and solutions.

A new LED is stirring up the LED lamp market: The DURIS E 5 from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is an LED intended for the LED retrofit market and designed to achieve uniform distribution of light. With its broad color temperature spectrum, high efficiency and natural color rendering it is well suited to the residential sector and to any other general illumination tasks.

A red high-power LED has set a new efficiency record in an OSRAM Opto Semiconductors R&D lab with an electro-optical efficiency of 61%. The 1 mm2 chip housed on a laboratory package emits at a wavelength of 609 nm (λ-dom) and has achieved a record value of 201 lm/W at an operating current of 40 mA. At a typical operating current of 350 mA its luminous efficacy is still an impressive 168 lm/W, which means that even at this high wattage more t...

There will be a new addition to the executive team of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors as of October 1, 2011. Born in Aachen, Germany, Frank Tillner (51) will be succeeding the previous Chief Operating Officer, Elke Eckstein, at the headquarters in Regensburg and taking the responsibility for the chip and LED production plants in Regensburg, Germany, and Penang, Malaysia. Frank Tillner has many years of experience in semiconductor processes and producti...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has added another LED to its portfolio for projection applications. The new OSRAM OSTAR Compact 2x2 is the brightest LED of its type on the market. With twice the brightness in all colors and near record-breaking green values, this new version is an excellent addition to the existing versions of the OSTAR Compact series. Its high performance makes it ideal for high-power projectors for the commercial and domestic sectors...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has added another LED to its portfolio for projection applications. The new OSRAM OSTAR Compact 2x2 is the brightest LED of its type on the market. With twice the brightness in all colors and near record-breaking green values, this new version is an excellent addition to the existing versions of the OSTAR Compact series. Its high performance makes it ideal for high-power projectors for the commercial and domestic sectors...

With the launch of the pilot production line for organic light emitting diodes (OLED) in Regensburg on 30 August, OSRAM has set an important milestone on the road toward volume manufacturing. As a result of its scope of possibilities and its quality criteria, the plant is unique and the first of its kind worldwide. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) played an important role with it...

A new hybrid sensor of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors eases the installation of proximity and ambient light sensor technology in smartphones and similar devices. The sensor combines emitter and detector and it is designed to eliminate crosstalk in many applications. Suppressing this effect normally requires large efforts. For the first time, designers are also able to adapt the sensitivity of the ambient light sensor to the transparency of various sma...

In recent years, the brightness of LEDs has continually increased, allowing them to be used in completely new application areas. Due to the strong increase in brightness, the bonded system of chip and housing takes on increased significance.

The new 3 in 1 SFH 7773 digital sensor from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors makes it easier than ever to install both proximity and ambient light sensing in smart phones and similar devices by combining the functions of a digital ambient light sensor and a digital proximity sensor in a single compact unit.

Explore LED based horticultural solutions using OSRAM Opto Semiconductors' Golden DRAGON Plus and OSLON SSL Hyper Red and Deep Blue LEDs.

The new “3 in 1” SFH 7773 digital sensor from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors makes it easier than ever to install both proximity and ambient light sensing in smart phones and similar devices by combining the functions of a digital ambient light sensor and a digital proximity sensor in a single compact unit. It also simplifies the elimination of crosstalk by combining the emitter and detector chips together – 3 devices in all – eliminating the ...

Light Guides are used wherever the light of a lightsource should be distributed homogeneously over a particular area, when there is a spatial distance between light source and the area which is to be illuminated.

The new IR OSLON SFH 4715S from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is the smallest infrared LED on the market with more than one watt of optical power. Measuring only 3.75 x 3.75 mm², it enables the development of exceptionally compact illumination units for CMOS and CCD cameras.