Agilent Technologies, Lumileds Lighting Introduce High-Brightness Surface-Mount LEDs for Interior and Exterior Automotive Applications.

PALO ALTO, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Envisium Power PLCC-4 SMT LEDs Offer Industry's Highest Light Output

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and Lumileds Lighting today introduced the first three products in the new Envisium mid-power family of light-emitting diodes. The Envisium Power PLCC-4 (plastic leaded chip carrier) surface-mount (SMT) LEDs are primarily intended for automotive exterior lighting, such as center high-mounted stoplights, front turn signals, rear combination turn, tail and stoplights, and mirror turn signals; and interior lighting applications, such as instrument panel and control backlighting, central console backlighting, and navigation and audio systems.

The Envisium Power PLCC-4 SMT LEDs, available in red, red-orange and amber, fill the need for mid-power illumination capabilities between the current Agilent PLCC-4 products, operating at up to 200 mW power levels, and Lumileds Lighting's Luxeon LED light sources that operate at power levels of 1 watt and higher. Other applications include home and commercial-building mood lighting and highlighting, garden lighting, and illuminated signs and signals.

"Agilent and Lumileds are already the optoelectronics market leaders," said Soo-Ghee Lee, vice president and general manager for the Optoelectronic Products Division in Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group. "On the strength of this new co-development relationship, we intend to increase our lead in fast-growing markets with a compelling set of Envisium solutions for automotive, consumer electronics and mobile phone customers. We'll apply our well-known quality, competitive pricing, worldwide customer support and industry-best lead times to win in our markets."

The use of high-performance Lumileds Lighting TS AlInGaP (transparent-substrate aluminum indium gallium phosphide) LED die enables the new LEDs to produce higher luminous flux output than any other PLCC-4 LEDs on the market. For example, the Envisium Power PLCC-4 SMT LEDs feature higher luminous output than the nearest competitor's offerings, which are widely used for automotive signaling applications.

"The Envisium Power PLCC-4 LEDs offer the best specifications in the industry," said Jason Posselt, director of product marketing at Lumileds Lighting. "They also offer much higher quality and reliability and superior mechanical characteristics to reduce tombstoning, prevent delamination and improve pick-and-place assembly."

The Envisium Power PLCC-4 SMT LEDs are based on the PLCC-4 standard package dimensions. The LED has a substrate made up of a molded plastic reflector on top of a bent lead frame. The die is attached within the reflector cavity, and the cavity is encapsulated by an Agilent proprietary epoxy blend. This package design, coupled with careful selection of component materials, allows the LEDs to perform with high reliability over the -40 C to +100 C temperature range, crucial in the harsh automotive operating environment. The Agilent-designed PLCC-4 SMT package can be driven at high current due to its superior package and thermal design, and is compatible with both IR-solder reflow and through-the-wave soldering.

Typical Performance Specifications

The Envisium Power PLCC-4 SMT LEDs offer these typical performance specifications at 50 mA operating current, -40 C to +100 C operating temperature:

Dominant            Min. Luminous         Total Flux
Wavelength/Color    Intensity (Iv) mcd    mlm (Typ.)
----------------    ------------------    ----------

630.0 nm Red        630-1000              2600.00
617 nm Red-orange   1000-1580             4300.00
592 nm Amber        630-1000              3000.00

Note: Minimum luminous intensity and typical total flux ranges are based on available intensity binning levels.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

Pricing of the Envisium PLCC-4 SMT LEDs is less than $0.20 in high-volume quantities. To facilitate easy pick-and-place assembly, the LEDs are packed in EIA-compliant tape and reel. Every reel will be shipped in single intensity and color bin (except for red) to provide close uniformity. Samples and production quantities (four-week lead time) are available now through Agilent's direct sales channel and its authorized distributors. Further information is available at www.agilent.com/view/led.

About Lumileds Lighting

Lumileds Lighting is the world's leading manufacturer of high-power LEDs and a pioneer in the use of solid-state lighting solutions for everyday purposes including automotive lighting, camera flash, LCD displays and televisions, portable lighting, projection and general lighting. The company's patented Luxeon Power Light Sources are the first to combine the brightness of conventional lighting with the small footprint, long life and other advantages of LEDs. Lumileds also supplies core LED material and LED packaging, and manufactures billions of LEDs annually. Lumileds Lighting is a joint venture between Agilent Technologies and Philips Lighting. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with operations in the Netherlands, Japan and Malaysia and sales offices throughout the world. For more information, call Lumileds at 408-435-6111 or visit www.lumileds.com.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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