The company says that its chip design provides

Cree is leading the push toward large-scale LED lighting adoption, with its recessed LR4 and LR6 downlight fixtures, which produce the equivalent of a 65 W incandescent bulb while using only 12 W. The fixtures produce a clean pleasant light while maintaining highly effective brightness levels, which has helped the company win numerous 'industry best' awards.While LED lighting is still generally too expensive for consumer sales, a number of led high bay light industrial complexes, hotels, restaurants, hospitals and offices have begun to implement it due to the significant cost benefits. It is predicted that widespread implementation to residential and consumer markets will not occur until 2014 or 2015.

The Bridgelux SMC LED design will enable manufacturers to bond the chip directly onto the printed circuit board (PCB), eliminating the need for an additional substrate or traditional LED package. The company says that its chip design provides a high flux density LED with an ultra small footprint and thin profile. It reportedly allows the ability to closely pack multiple chips together for increased performance in applications with limited space such as camera flash, LCD display backlighting and general or specialty lighting applications. The design of this chip also has a flat surface for direct deposition of a phosphor layer on the LED die.

"This new patent award demonstrates Bridgelux's focus on driving innovation in core technologies to improve performance and reduce the cost of our lighting technologies," noted Bridgelux's director of led high bay light, Steve Lester. "The company is aggressively adding to its intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Bridgelux, currently, has over 75 patents filed in the U.S. and over 130 patent applications filed worldwide. Bridgelux's investments in MOCVD and chip design enable the Company to continue to innovate and deliver the right quality and quantity of light for specific SSL applications.