Cree, Inc., announced the commercial availability of its new XLamp XT-E Royal Blue LED. Interestingly, Cree is promoting the XT-E Royal Blue LED as an LED optimized for use in remote-phosphor lighting and other applications with similar requirements. The new XLamp XT-E LED delivers what the company contends are the industry's tightest wavelength bins combined with category-leading brightness to simplify remote-phosphor designs and lower system costs.
In related news, Cree announced a remote-phosphor-component patent licensing program that provides access to Cree's remote-phosphor patents. In offering this remote-phosphor patent licensing program, Cree is obviously asserting what the company believes are important patents in this area. According to Cree, a license under its new program gives OEMs access to a number of important Cree patents required to manufacture and use the combination of a remote-phosphor optical element with blue LEDs in LED lighting applications. Cree hopes that OEMS will develop and introduce their own high-quality LED system products using LEDs such as the XLamp XT-E Royal Blue with their licensed remote phosphor technology.
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