The Importance of Industry Standards and Testing in Non-Ceramic LED Outdoor Lighting

As technology evolves in LED industry, various platforms of LEDs have been developed. However, some of the traditional LEDs are retained for lighting, for example, a flip-chip-based 3535 ceramic-based high-power LEDs for outdoor lighting. It is because the performance and reliability is proven through accumulated business cases under harsh environmental conditions over long periods.

Yet, there has always been strong demands for low cost light sources, especially for outdoor lighting. Such demands push lighting manufactures to adopt other platforms such as an epi-up 5050 high-power LEDs as a substitutes of flip-chip 3535 ceramic-base LEDs for outdoor lighting. At the same time, this outdoor lighting application also requires strict reliability criteria to meet without compromising on performance. The reliability of low cost LEDs is often questioned in the market, especially in outdoor applications.

To ease such concerns, Samsung has implemented stringent test criteria to prove the robust nature of its new 5050 LED package. These tests were established to analyze how well an LED package can maintain its performance by withstanding harsh conditions involving salty air, fog, high humidity, extreme temperatures and thermal shock – conditions that are often found in the field. Moreover, the Samsung’s comprehensive test methods for outdoor LED robustness tests, the Outdoor 5050 LED Robustness, has been verified by UL Solutions, a leading independent safety science company.