For many years, LEDs were simply thought of as small, faintly glowing spots of light in switches and signal lamps. Breakthroughs over recent years have transformed the sector. Powerful LED light sources are now available in all colors and are used in cars, mobile phones, building facades, screens and a host of other applications.

The innovations behind these improvements are advances in epitaxy and process technology, chip design and package technology. Due to the combined effects of all these areas, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is one of the leaders in LED technology.

In the future, new manufacturing processes, optimized packages and specially developed optics will make even more efficient and powerful LEDs a reality. The high performance OSTAR or DRAGON product families are a first step in this direction. These products and virtually all our other products are based on Thinfilm technology.