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Luminus Devices Shows PhlatLight LED Products (23/6/2008)

Demonstrations include SID 2008 Award Winning PhlatLight Back-Light Unit

Luminus Devices, Inc., the developer and manufacturer of PhlatLight(R) (Photonic Lattice) LED products for a wide variety of display and illumination applications, today announced that it will demonstrate a variety of PhlatLight powered products and a full line of PhlatLight LED chipsets and support components at SID 2008 (Society of Information Display) 2008.

"Luminus continues to expand into new product categories and applications where solid-state RGB illumination is desirable and PhlatLight LEDs unique brightness, reliability, and performance, enable manufacturers to develop innovative new product designs." said Christian Hoepfner, vice president, products. "Products developed with PhlatLight LEDs offer superior image performance and new attractive form factors due to the compact size and the elimination of the need to replace the light source."

Luminus will highlight the following:

Luminus will demonstrate its award winning PhlatLight Back-Light Unit (BLU) in a 46" LCD TV illuminated with only eight light modules, each containing a single red, green and blue PhlatLight LED. The unique high brightness and collimated light output of PhlatLight LEDs requires only a few PhlatLight RGB modules to illuminate light guides, creating uniform diffuse white light with a wider color gamut than CCFL or white LED backlights. This dramatically reduces parts count, complexity and cost while improving long-term uniformity for large screen LCD TVs compared to direct LED backlights with arrays of thousands of conventional LEDs. The PhlatLight LEDs illuminate MicroLens(TM) light guides, manufactured by Luminus partner Global Lighting Technology, enabling thinner designs. The 46" TV demonstrated by Luminus is from partner company Jabil Circuit, a leading BLU and TV designer and manufacturer. The PhlatLight BLU has been awarded this year's highest display industry honor from SID for winning the 2008 Display Component of the Year Gold Award.

Luminus will demonstrate a home theater front projector prototype powered by a single PhlatLight PT120 chipset. The latest generation of PhlatLight LEDs have achieved a dramatic increase in brightness, enabling home theater projectors to be designed that produce more than 750 ANSI lumens. This level of brightness, never before generated by an LED chipset, will enable such applications as LED based home cinema projectors and business projectors. These projectors will have the other benefits of LED technology, including instant-on operation, high contrast ratios, long lifetimes and wide color gamut. In addition, unlike the arc-lamps that PhlatLight LEDs replace, they do not contain any mercury.

Luminus will highlight their continued expansion into portable pocket projectors, demonstrating two new models, the HS102 from LG Electronics and the SP-P400 from Samsung Electronics. These projectors use the new PhlatLight PT54 RGB chipset, enabling brightness to increase to 150 lumens and higher, enabling faster growth and wider acceptance of this new projection category.

Luminus' suite will also feature Samsung's newest PhlatLight LED powered DLP television, the HL67A750. This 67" model is the largest LED-illuminated rear projection TV ever produced. Unlike the mercury arc-lamp and color wheel, used in earlier models, the PhlatLight chipset never has to be replaced.

Luminus will be conducting demonstrations of its revolutionary technology in a private suite at the Sheraton Downtown LA, located at 711 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Calif. in room 2408, approximately one mile from the Los Angeles Convention Center. Anyone interested in scheduling an appointment should contact Bill Keeler or Nicole Slein at (781) 684-0770 for more information.

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