Multi-chip LEDs give car designers more color options

The RGB MultiLED offers virtually unlimited choice of colors for ambient lighting, including customer-specific colors for cluster lighting in combined instruments such as speedometers and RPM indicators, in infotainment and GPS displays. The main feature of the multi-chip LED is a blue color range from 447 to 476-nm with high brightness. Deep saturated blue tones can now be produced by using three LED chips in red, green and blue. At 370 millicandelas (mcd), the blue is brighter than in other multi-chip LEDs on the market.

The multi-chip LED product has an integrated 2-kV ESD-protective diode and is corrosion resistance. The product was developed specifically for applications in the automotive sector and meets all the requirements of an automotive certified component. The conducting current (max.) is 40-mA for red, and 50-mA for blue and green. The forward voltage (typical) is 2.05-V (red), and 3.2-V (blue, green). It is available in a standard SMT package measuring 3.3 x 3.0 x 1.8-mm.