Lamina cuts LED array prices as die cost drops
Lamina Ceramics, the Westampton, NJ, company that makes high-brightness LED arrays, has halved prices on two of its major product lines.
Company CEO Taylor Adair said that the cuts were possible because of the rapidly falling cost of LED die, which he estimated at 20-30% per year.
The price of Lamina's 570 lumen and 108 lumen white-light sources, known as the BL-3000 and BL-2000 respectively, have been cut by 54%. Meanwhile, the sale price of various colored arrays in the same product ranges are dropping by up to 59%.
"Lamina Ceramics is lowering prices to...help stimulate LED penetration into a wider range of architectural and general illumination applications," said Adair. "We can do this because of the overall trend towards lower die prices."
Lamina has developed a proprietary packaging technique that improves thermal performance of LED arrays, and it recently claimed to have built the world's "brightest" LED source, and 860-device red-green-blue array that produced over 13 kilolumen.
