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(September 2010) posted on Thu Sep 16, 2010

Lighting-class LEDs in the half-watt LED market satisfy stringent Energy Star performance criteria

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Cree Inc. (Durham, NC) has announced the commercial availability of its XLamp® ML-E LED. The lighting-class XLamp ML-E provides lighting designers with a compact solution for distributed LED arrays that can enable them to meet stringent U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR® performance criteria.
The XLamp ML-E is suitable in applications where a smooth, uniform appearance is required, such as LED/fluorescent-tube replacement, ceiling-mounted panel lights and under-cabinet lighting. Unlike other low-power LEDs originally developed for consumer electronics and backlighting applications, the XLamp ML-E delivers color binning, efficacy, thermal resistance and the long-term reliability required for ENERGY STAR® luminaires and bulbs, the company states.
The XLamp ML-E delivers luminous flux of up to 58 lm at 150mA in cool white (5,000K) and up to 48 lm in warm white (3,000K). Like the XLamp MX-6 and MX-3 LEDs, the ML-E provides a tightly controlled, uniform, angular chromaticity and a 120-degree viewing angle, optimized for distributed lighting applications. The XLamp ML-E also shares the same ANSI-complaint chromaticity binning used by the XLamp XP and MX families of LEDs.
XLamp ML-E LEDs are available in sample quantities immediately and in production quantities with standard lead times. To locate a distributor, visit www.cree.com/buyxlamp.