LEDs are ubiquitous as light sources today and are increasingly displacing conventional light sources. In application fields such as the automotive industry, sensor technology and medicine, manufacturers are exploiting the potential of the technology in ever new innovative functions. Here, LEDs improve safety, open up new design options and accompany the transformation in the field of smart technology. In terms of the share of the product range in the lighting product group in electrical wholesale, the share of LEDs is already around 15 percent (as of 2020).
LED production is still in a development process. As a result, suitable standard solutions are not immediately available for all conceivable fields of application. Developers are therefore often forced to align innovative products with existing components, which proves to be an additional hurdle. As a distributor and manufacturer of optoelectronic components, Chips 4 Light offers an alternative: LED chips as well as individual, customised LEDs offer developers and manufacturers the possibility of adapting the LED to their plans, instead of the other way round as is often the case. In particular, the demand for miniaturisation can be better met by integrating LED chips in special applications.
Chips 4 Light distributes and processes LED chips (bare die), i.e. pure semiconductors without substrate, encapsulation material or optics. The company offers a broad portfolio of LED chips from UV to infrared and white, different chip sizes from 6 to 80 mil, detectors and also laser diodes. With individual solutions, Chips 4 Light is dedicated to the special requirements of its customers for optoelectronic components and realises these already in small and medium quantities.
The Bavarian company’s further competence lies in the development of complete LED components as finished components that can be soldered directly onto a circuit board. Chips 4 Light thus offers its customers maximum flexibility in integration and supports its customers from prototype development to complete series production.
“We offer our customers both an extensive portfolio of LED chips, LEDs, detectors and laser products from leading manufacturers and the comprehensive know-how to generate LEDs even in small and medium quantities,” explains Dr. Wolfgang Huber, Managing Director of Chips 4 Light GmbH from Sinzing. “In addition to technical expertise, we have the necessary equipment to sort and measure LED chips on behalf of customers, or even to transfer them to a waffle pack for long-term storage and to measure individual laser diodes.”
In the chip handling area, Chips 4 Light works with die sorters. The fully automated sorting system is used for sorting semiconductor chips to remove small and sample quantities from the wafer and to provide customer-specific quantities.
In LED development, Chips 4 Light uses advanced software simulations to calculate lenses and plan thermal management according to customer specifications.
“We aim to find the right solution for every customer-specific requirement, no matter how far it is from the market standard,” emphasises Dr Huber.