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Bridgelux’s New Series of Chip Scale Package (CSP) LEDs takes Commercial Lighting to another Level

A wide range of CSP from 1800K to 6500K, from CRI 70 to CRI 95, and from RGB color to Full Spectrum

FREMONT, California – Sep 27, 2022 – Bridgelux is proudly launching its new series of Chip Scale Package (CSP) LEDs. Made without bond wires or plastic molds, Bridgelux’s advanced flip chip technology and phosphor coating technology makes them the perfect fit for high dense clustering, tunable CCT and high luminous flux output. Seamless and flexible assembly on boards enables customer specific COBs and modules for commercial, entertainment, industrial and outdoor lightings.

Bridgelux CSP family consists of a wide range of operating current options (wattage levels) from 0.5W to 4W and up to 7W maximum. CSP sizes include 1.1mm, 1.3mm, 1.86mm, 2.3mm, and 2.7 mm square and is available for CCTs from 2700K - 6500K and with CRIs of 70, 80, 90 and 95.

Bridgelux CSP technology is optimized to deliver high efficacy at high current density. CSP2727 4000K CRI 70 can deliver the industry best efficacy of 209 lm/W @350mA and 190 lm/W @700mA, respectively. Bridgelux further accelerates the industry’s adoption of CSP Technology by offering customized CSP COBs, linear modules and flexible strips along with connectors, optics, wiring and/or electronics to support time-to-market and to simplify the supply chain. The compact size along with exceptional performance can greatly reduce the system costs and become a reliable tool for designers, who have come to associate Bridgelux products with exceptional quality and utility. In addition, CSP color consistency across the beam angle enables high quality illumination across multiple applications.

“Bridgelux is adding new CSP products including RGBW, F90 and Thrive (Full Spectrum) to our white CSP product family to give manufacturers and designers more choices” says Dr. Yi-Qun Li, CEO of Bridglux. “Our RGBW CSP solution is ideal for smart lighting applications, and our white tunable options are selectable along black body curve (BBC) from 2700K - 6500K in both CRI 90 and CRI 95.”

The F90 and CSP Red use narrowband red phosphor converted technology to deliver the highest CRI 90 and white tunable performance in the industry for residential, entertainment commercial lighting. Thrive CSP uses Bridgelux patented broad blue technology, and it is the first full spectrum CSP product of its kind in the market.

At Light+Building 2022, which runs from Oct. 2 through 6 in Frankfurt, Bridgelux is unveiling the CSP and RGBW products in Hall 8.0, booth C70. The CSP1111 to CSP2323 are available through Bridgelux distribution network. CSP2727 will be available as early as December 2022. The RGBW and Thrive CSP will then follow in the spring of 2023.

For more information, please visit https://www.bridgelux.com or email pr@bridgelux.com.

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux is a leading LED Innovative company with lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance in combination of the color quality and the lumen efficacy and the full spectrum human-centric influenced light for the residential, commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux launches F90 COB products offering market leading efficacy with CRI90

Bridgelux (www.bridgelux.com), the leading developer and manufacturer of innovative LED solutions, is announcing the launch of F90 COBs. Providing a combination of market leading efficacy and color fidelity of over 90, F90 COBs are an ideal solution for all commercial and residential downlight applications. Under Potassium Fluorosilicate (PFS) phosphor technology licensed from Current Lighting Solutions, LLC for use in commercial lighting applications and GE Lighting, a Savant Company for use in residential lighting applications, F90 COBs joins Bridgelux previously launched F90 SMD and F90 Filament product offerings.

F90 COBs are available in a wide range of Light-Emitting Surfaces (LES) from 8mm to 22mm in diameter with efficacy ranging up to 190 lumens/watt. This represents a 20% improvement from the previous generation Gen8 CRI 90 COBS and 5% improvement on Gen8 CRI 80. The breakthrough performance represents the highest efficacy for COBs on the market. Particularly robust, case temperatures for F90 COBS can be allowed as high as 95⁰C for normal drive current (listed in the chart below) and 85⁰C for maximum drive currents (2X). Given the in-situ temperatures of typical ICAT-rated recessed celing can type products, this makes the F90 COB an ideal engine.

“We have seen how transformative our other F90 product offerings have been, so we are very excited to offer the F90 COBs in such a wide range of configurations,” says Dr. Yi-Qun Li, CEO of Bridgelux. “Whether you are a designer, a product developer or a residential user, F90 COBs are an ideal tool.” For more information, please visit https://www.bridgelux.com or email pr@bridgelux.com.

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About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries, and people to experience the power, possibility, and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial, and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, Vesta, and Vero are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. Bridging Light and Life, Thrive, and V Series are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Bridgelux, Inc. Appoints Dr. Yi-Qun Li as Chief Executive Officer

Fremont, Ca.—March 18, 2022 – Bridgelux, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technology and solutions, announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Yi-Qun Li as its Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Dr. Li replaces Tim Lester who recently departed Bridgelux to pursue other opportunities.

Prior to being appointed as the CEO of Bridgelux, Dr. Li was the co-founder of Intematix Corporation, and served as its CEO and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Dr. Li is highly regarded in the lighting industry—considered by many to be a pioneer in LED technology and its applications. Over the past 20 years he led multiple innovation initiatives in phosphor technology including silicates, lutetium garnets, coated narrow-band red and narrow-band green sulphates.

In recent years, two of Dr. Li’s passion projects, F90 and Thrive, have had the most wide-ranging commercial impact on the industry. F90, which uses the novel KSF phosphors, has facilitated the confluence of high efficacy performance and high color rendering in the same package. Thrive, which uses multiple broad-blue chips in the same package, creates full-spectrum emission that matches the spectrum of natural light. Under his guidance, Bridgelux has expanded both programs into multiple SMD and COB products for both commercial and residential applications.

Dr. Li holds Doctorate and Master of Science degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in China. To date, Dr. Li has published more than 50 scientific papers and holds over 120 issued US patents on a wide variety of technology including LED phosphor compositions, remote phosphor structures, and LED devices. Dr. Li has also served as Research Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Research Engineer at semiconductor companies EMCORE and ATMI, and held executive positions at start-up companies NZ Applied Technologies and Spinix Corporation.

“When you think about the enabling technologies that have allowed LEDs to dominate, nothing has had more impact on performance, cost and quality of LEDs as the improvements in phosphor technology,” says Don Peifer, founder of Smash the Bulb, who along with Bridgelux was recently recognized by the DOE as a concept phase winner for the prestigious L-Prize. “Dr. Li and Bridgelux are critical contributors to the state of the art we all enjoy as both an industry and as consumers.”

For more information, please visit https://www.bridgelux.com or email pr@bridgelux.com.

Contact: pr@bridgelux.com

Website: https://www.bridgelux.com

Logo: https://www.bridgelux.com/company/newsroom

Product photography: Available upon request pr@bridgelux.com

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries, and people to experience the power, possibility, and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial, and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, Vesta, and Vero are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. Bridging Light and Life, Thrive, and V Series are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Bridgelux Expands its F90 Series into Residential Applications Providing High Quality Light and Leading Efficacy for Common Lamp Types

FREMONT, Ca – December 9, 2021 –Bridgelux (www.bridgelux.com), the leading developer and manufacturer of innovative LED solutions, announces its expansion from commercial to residential applications for F90, its popular CRI 90 product. A licensing agreement with GE Lighting, a Savant Company, for its Potassium Fluorosilicate (PFS) technology will allow Bridgelux to bring its F90 technology to a wide range of consumer lighting solutions. Popular lamp types that will now be powered by F90 technology include A lamps, BR, MR and Candelabra.

Bridgelux has created an important, enabling LED packaging technology that facilitates the transition from PFS’s cool white (>4000K) applications, such as display lighting, where it has been previously relegated to warm white (2700K) applications such as residential lighting due to the high concentration of PFS related lifetime issues. Bridgelux’s patented and innovative packaging solution solves the lifetime issue that has plagued PFS and allowed the expansion of F90 into the home.

Traditionally, there is an inverse relationship between CRI and efficacy: the higher the CRI, the lower the efficacy. By replacing broad-band red nitride with a narrow-band PFS phosphor, F90 products are able to perform as well as competing 80 CRI products. The F90 products, while delivering CRI of 90 or greater and R9 > 50, will achieve efficacy that qualifies for California Title 20 and Europe’s Energy-related Products (ErP) for Class C (165 lm/W) and Class B (185 lm/W) designation. The following chart lists both F90 LED and Filaments types ready for immediate release.

“By combining PFS technology with our proprietary packaging technology, F90 LEDs are poised to deliver industry leading efficacy with high CRI in a package consumer can trust,” says Tim Lester, CEO of Bridgelux. “Bridgelux has been an industry leader in lighting innovation for decades and we are proud to introduce these new, exciting products to our portfolio of game-changing solutions.”

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life^TM

Bridgelux is a developer and manufacturer of cutting-edge LED lighting technologies and solutions. We marry world-class engineering with deep domain knowledge of lighting to create products that are the rare combination of performance, value, aesthetics and user-friendliness. Our unique solutions are the choice of lighting designers and manufacturers throughout the world. For more information about the company and its products, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux Research Study Reveals Top Lighting Specifiers’ Preference for Thrive Nature Light

FREMONT, Ca – December 1, 2021 –Bridgelux (www.bridgelux.com), the leading developer and manufacturer of innovative LED solutions, announces the results of a study the firm commissioned for its innovative full spectrum product family, Thrive. The goal of the study was to ascertain whether top designers would recognize a difference between Thrive and 90 CRI products and find out which light source looked more natural based on their expert opinion.

The study utilized a complement of Thrive and 90+ CRI LEDs at three popular color temperatures: 2700K, 3000K and 4000K. The light sources were placed inside a box and attached to a switch. Common articles in different colors and finishes along with a standard Color Chart were placed under the LEDs inside the box. Designers were able to switch back and forth in each CCT to discern any differences. Their comments were recorded over a series of 18 separate tests. Across this wide range of objects, Thrive was preferred 88% of the time compared to 8% for 90 CRI and 4% undecided. Enthusiastic response to Thrive were typical with one lighting designer claiming “It felt like sunlight coming through the window.” A one-minute video showing how designers embraced the natural spectrum of Thrive can be viewed here: https://www.bridgelux.com/resources/bridgelux-thrive

Thrive uses a broad-blue chip technology and special phosphor blend to fill in the common Cyan gap that plagues most LED solutions. The technology is at the heart of Sylvania’s TruWave technology for their popular Nature™ Lamp series of products. Because of Thrive’s full-spectrum approach, Thrive is more able to match the spectrum of the sun across all color temperatures. Benefits of the natural spectrum of the sun using Thrive include reduced eye strain, less fragmented sleep and a higher sense of emotional well-being.

“The development of new LED technologies is often times done in a vacuum,” says Tim Lester, CEO of Bridgelux. “It is hard to know whether designers will like it. By tracking as close to the natural spectrum of the sun, however, we were able to anticipate the positive reactions. Even so, the overwhelming support from high-end, high-impact specifiers is humbling and lets us know we hit our target.”

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life^TM

Bridgelux is a developer and manufacturer of cutting-edge LED lighting technologies and solutions. We marry world-class engineering with deep domain knowledge of lighting to create products that are the rare combination of performance, value, aesthetics and user-friendliness. Our unique solutions are the choice of lighting designers and manufacturers throughout the world. For more information about the company and its products, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux Releases Thrive 93, Delivering Lighting’s Closest Match to Natural Light while Saving Energy

FREMONT, CA – November 15, 2021 –Bridgelux (www.bridgelux.com), the leading developer and manufacturer of innovative LED solutions, announces the release of Thrive 93, a breakthrough family of LED products with a unique formula capable of high efficiency and natural light-matching spectrum.

Bridgelux Thrive is expanding its range of high-fidelity products to include both Thrive 93 and Thrive 98 (CRI of 93 and 98 respectfully.) Both families create a stable of LED solutions that represent the closest match to natural light across the critical wavelength range (from blue to green) for human health. Both Thrive products engage a broad-blue chip technology and a special phosphor blend to fill in the common cyan gap that plagues most LED solutions. “The Broad Blue emission is what allows the Thrive family of products to match natural light so well,” says Mark van den Berg, VP of Sales at Bridgelux. “By creating multiple blue emission peaks, we are able to better replicate natural light than competitors whose LEDs emit a single, narrow spike of blue.” Benefits of the enriched blue spectrum and full spectrum coverage include improved eye comfort, sleep/wake cycle and emotional well-being.

Where Thrive 98 uses a longer wavelength red, which helps achieve R9 >90, Thrive 93’s red peak is slightly shorter in the visible spectrum, which produces R9 >50. This slight modification creates a 12% competitive edge in efficacy over Thrive 98 and competing 90 CRI products. “In Thrive 93, designers can enjoy premium fidelity across the entire spectrum in addition to amazing efficiency all in the same LED package.” says Tim Lester, CEO of Bridgelux.

Bridgelux in preparing Thrive 93 for the lighting design community created an extensive formal survey conducted with some of the top specifiers in Europe and North America. In over 30 hours of interviews, Thrive was compared to traditional 90 CRI products. Over 90% of those interviewed preferred Thrive to 90 CRI. Designers felt that colors rendered under Thrive were more natural. Surprisingly, designers also felt that Thrive was so successful at color temperatures that they wouldn’t naturally use (such as 4000K,) that they would consider expanding their palette to include a broader range of CCTs. Thrive products are being used across multiple platforms which ensures that you can bring sun-like quality of light to both your home and your office.

For more information on Thrive 93 and Thrive 98, visit www.bridgelux.com.

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux, a subsidiary of Kaistar, is a developer and manufacturer of cutting-edge LED lighting technologies and solutions. We marry world-class engineering with deep domain knowledge of lighting to create products that are the rare combination of performance, value, aesthetics and user-friendliness. Our unique solutions are the choice of lighting designers and manufacturers throughout the world. For more information about the company and its products, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

LEEDARSON and Bridgelux Announce a Partnership to Develop F90 LEDs to Deliver Industry Leading Efficacy

XIAMEN,CHINA/FREMONT, USA – May 27, 2021 – LEEDARSON (www.leedarson.com), the world-leading ODM partner for developing IoT products and the manufacturer behind many of today’s most well-known tech brands, and Bridgelux (www.bridgelux.com), the leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies, today jointly announced a technology partnership on F90 LEDs lighting products.

Bridgelux newly released F90 Series LED products use Potassium Fluorosilicate (PFS) phosphor technology licensed from Current Lighting Solutions, LLC for use in commercial lighting applications. By replacing broadband red nitride phosphor with narrowband red PFS phosphor, the F90 LED products can achieve today’s CRI80 LED efficacy with a CRI of 90. Thanks to this partnership, LEEDARSON can seamlessly work with Bridgelux to incorporate the new F90 LEDs for CRI90 conversion in luminaire, such as linear lamps, downlights, spotlights, high-bay, to provide lighting products with industry leading efficacy and high CRI with their customers.

“We feel thrilled to partner with Bridgelux and are looking forward to working together consistently to help our partners, industries and consumers experience the innovative lighting products with luminous efficacy and high color quality lighting.” said Kellen Yang, the Vice General Manager of LEEDARSON.

“With LEEDARSON’s track record of bringing innovative lighting technology to market, this is an exciting opportunity for Bridgelux,” Commented Tim Lester, Bridgelux CEO. “We anticipate the industry leading efficacy combined with high CRI will be compelling in the commercial applications that Leedarson’s products serve.”

About LEEDARSON

LEEDARSON is the IoT powerhouse behind today’s most popular technology brands. As a world-leading ODM, we partner with businesses to help them design, manufacture, test, certify, kit and deliver extraordinary IoT devices and end-to-end IoT services to empower every aspect within living spaces. We apply our honed expertise to help fuel an intelligent world – leveraging multi-protocol standards, platforms and ecosystems to ensure IoT device interoperability.

Our history is based on excellence in the LED lighting space, and we're proud to be the #1 exporter of LED products in China. We leverage these accomplishments, innovation know-how, and cooperative spirit to continually broaden our well-regarded IoT portfolio. Today, we are a high-quality, efficient one-stop shop for IoT technologies and services. We pride ourselves on helping organizations develop proven, reliable and interoperable smart products for the home automation, entertainment, security and video surveillance categories. www.leedarson.com, LinkedIn, Twitter: @LeedarsonGroup

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life^TM

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company and its products, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks of Bridgelux Inc. Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

LEEDARSON and Bridgelux Announce a Partnership to Develop F90 LEDs to Deliver Industry Leading Efficacy

XIAMEN,CHINA/FREMONT, USA – May 27, 2021 – LEEDARSON (www.leedarson.com), the world-leading ODM partner for developing IoT products and the manufacturer behind many of today’s most well-known tech brands, and Bridgelux (www.bridgelux.com), the leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies, today jointly announced a technology partnership on F90 LEDs lighting products.

Bridgelux newly released F90 Series LED products use Potassium Fluorosilicate (PFS) phosphor technology licensed from Current Lighting Solutions, LLC for use in commercial lighting applications. By replacing broadband red nitride phosphor with narrowband red PFS phosphor, the F90 LED products can achieve today’s CRI80 LED efficacy with a CRI of 90. Thanks to this partnership, LEEDARSON can seamlessly work with Bridgelux to incorporate the new F90 LEDs for CRI90 conversion in luminaire, such as linear lamps, downlights, spotlights, high-bay, to provide lighting products with industry leading efficacy and high CRI with their customers.

“We feel thrilled to partner with Bridgelux and are looking forward to working together consistently to help our partners, industries and consumers experience the innovative lighting products with luminous efficacy and high color quality lighting.” said Kellen Yang, the Vice General Manager of LEEDARSON.

“With LEEDARSON’s track record of bringing innovative lighting technology to market, this is an exciting opportunity for Bridgelux,” Commented Tim Lester, Bridgelux CEO. “We anticipate the industry leading efficacy combined with high CRI will be compelling in the commercial applications that Leedarson’s products serve.”

About LEEDARSON

LEEDARSON is the IoT powerhouse behind today’s most popular technology brands. As a world-leading ODM, we partner with businesses to help them design, manufacture, test, certify, kit and deliver extraordinary IoT devices and end-to-end IoT services to empower every aspect within living spaces. We apply our honed expertise to help fuel an intelligent world – leveraging multi-protocol standards, platforms and ecosystems to ensure IoT device interoperability.

Our history is based on excellence in the LED lighting space, and we're proud to be the #1 exporter of LED products in China. We leverage these accomplishments, innovation know-how, and cooperative spirit to continually broaden our well-regarded IoT portfolio. Today, we are a high-quality, efficient one-stop shop for IoT technologies and services. We pride ourselves on helping organizations develop proven, reliable and interoperable smart products for the home automation, entertainment, security and video surveillance categories. www.leedarson.com, LinkedIn, Twitter: @LeedarsonGroup

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life^TM

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company and its products, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks of Bridgelux Inc. Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Bridgelux F90 Series CRI90 LEDs for commercial lighting deliver industry leading efficacy

Fremont, California, May 3, 2021 - Bridgelux announced today the commercial release of its F90 Series LED products for commercial lighting which deliver a minimum CRI of 90 combined with industry leading efficacy. Bridgelux F90 LED products use Potassium Fluorosilicate (PFS) phosphor technology licensed from Current Lighting Solutions, LLC for use in commercial lighting applications.

For traditional LED technology, higher CRI results in a lower efficacy. By replacing broadband red nitride phosphor with narrowband red PFS phosphor, the F90 LED products can achieve today’s CRI80 LED efficacy with a CRI of 90. Lighting customers can simply replace their existing LEDs in their lighting products with the new F90 LEDs for CRI90 conversion. Bridgelux’s new family of F90 Series LEDs (Table 1) delivers a CRI of at least 90 and R9 of at least 50. The F90 2835 0.2W LED has a lumen efficacy ranging from 170 lm/W to 210 lm/W to meet the DLC (Design Lights Consortium^®) V5.1 Standard for different lighting products including T8 lamps, troffers, high-bay, linear ambient, and case lighting. The F90 2835 1W LED has a lumen efficacy ranging from 139 lm/W to 160 lm/W for indoor directional lamps and downlights for commercial lighting. F90 LED products also meet the DLC Premium Lumen maintenance technical requirements L₉₀≥36,000 hours. F90 Series LEDs can be incorporated in virtually any luminaire (such as linear lamps, downlights, spotlights, high-bay) and can increase the vividness of strong red colors which is particularly desirable in retail applications.

Table 1 Selected F90 Products

“By incorporating PFS phosphor to optimize emission spectrum in conjunction with our proprietary packaging technology, the F90 Series of LEDs is able to deliver both industry leading efficacy and high CRI. Bridgelux’s F90 product performance is the same or better than today’s CRI 80 packages.” said Tim Lester, Chief Executive Officer, Bridgelux. “Bridgelux has been an industry leader in lighting innovation for decades and we are proud to introduce these new exciting products to the company’s product portfolio.”

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life^TM

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company and its products, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks of Bridgelux Inc. Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Bridgelux Recognized Twice in 2020 IES Progress Report

Products Honored Include Vesta® Flex and Gen 8 V Series™ and Vero® COBs

FREMONT, California – September 8^th, 2020 – Bridgelux is proud to announce that it has received two selections for inclusion in the 2020 Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Report. The first selection is the groundbreaking new Vesta Flex family of two channel drivers with interchangeable controls for tunable white lighting systems, and the second selection is the Gen 8 Vero and V Series COBs with market leading efficacy. As the recognized technical and educational authority on illumination, the IES reviews industry-wide submissions of light sources, lighting components, luminaires, research, and publications for inclusion in their annual Progress Report. Acceptance is based on an impartial judging process to evaluate each submission on its uniqueness, innovation, and significance to the lighting industry.

The Vesta Flex family of specification grade, NFC programable, tunable white LED drivers and control modules is designed to accelerate the adoption of human centric lighting. Vesta Flex is compatible with multiple traditional wired, and new wireless lighting control ecosystems, including wired DALI2 and 0-10V controls, and wireless control options from WiZ, WiSilica, Silvair, and Casambi. This system enables simplified future-proof design flexibility for luminaire manufacturers to develop luminaires with control interoperability to meet the needs of any lighting project. Optimized to work with Bridgelux Vesta Series tunable white LED sources, this combined lighting system is designed to work together out of the box, simplifying the design process and accelerating time to market.

The eighth generation V Series, Vero Series, and Vero SE Series product families deliver up to 185 lm/W (at nominal drive current). This market-leading efficacy is benchmarked at the popular 3000K 80 CRI color point, with efficacies above 200 lm/W possible at other color points across the industry’s broadest range of COB products. Gen 8 COB products also feature up to 3x overdrive capability, delivering a 30% increase in maximum lumens per LES size to support the continuous trend toward luminaire miniaturization, as well as significant increases in lumens per dollar to further reduce the costs of solid-state lighting. Available in LES sizes ranging from 8mm to 29mm, Gen 8 products deliver 800 to 16,000 lumens at nominal currents in a wide range of CCT and CRI options to support a wide variety of lighting applications.

“It is an honor to have our Vesta Flex and Gen 8 COB products represented in this year’s IES Progress Report,” said Jason Posselt, VP of Global Marketing at Bridgelux. “Despite the challenges of the global pandemic, Bridgelux remains focused on developing innovative products and solutions as a committed technology partner for our customers. In addition to the IES Progress Report awards, Vesta Thrive^TM was the winner of a 2020 LightFair Innovation Award, and both Vesta Flex and Thrive were Sapphire Awards finalists at the Strategies In Light conference. These exciting new products will accelerate the development of differentiated market leading lighting products.”

For more information, please visit https://www.bridgelux.com or email pr@bridgelux.com.

Contact: pr@bridgelux.com

Website: https://www.bridgelux.com

Logo: https://www.bridgelux.com/company/newsroom

Product photography: Available upon request to pr@bridgelux.com

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries, and people to experience the power, possibility, and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial, and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, Vesta, and Vero are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. Bridging Light and Life, Thrive, and V Series are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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