Luminus Devices Unveils Revolutionary New Light Source For Microdisplay Rear Projection Televisions

January 9, 2006

Luminus Devices, Inc. announced its PhlatLight™ technology, the world’s only solid state light source designed from the ground up to illuminate microdisplay based rear projection televisions (RPTVs). Luminus will showcase its PhlatLight technology with product demonstrations, including a prototype of an RPTV system being illuminated with one RGB PhlatLight chipset – a single device for each of the three colors – at this week’s 2006 International CES in Las Vegas. PhlatLight (Photonic Lattice Light Source) technology was developed by Luminus Devices based on research done at MIT. It is the only solid state light source that provides enough brightness to illuminate large screen RPTVs. “Luminus’ PhlatLight technology holds the promise of rejuvenating the microdisplay based RPTV market,” said David Naranjo, vice president of TV Market Research at DisplaySearch. "The performance and features that are enabled by this technology provide differentiation, allowing RPTV manufacturers to take advantage of the potential for microdisplay rear projection televisions." PhlatLight technology enables a new class of televisions and displays that feature brilliant image quality and deeper colors, compared to RPTVs that are illuminated with conventional mercury arc-lamps. PhlatLight chipsets have a longer lifetime than arc lamps, lower power consumption, higher reliability, and are more environmentally friendly. And because PhlatLight is a solid state technology, it provides an instant on feature, eliminating the slow warm-up time for lamp-based RPTVs. “Today’s RPTV manufacturers face the challenge of competing with similar RPTVs and other flat panel technologies,” said Udi Meirav, CEO of Luminus Devices, Inc. “PhlatLight technology gives these manufacturers the ability to diversify their product lines and offer a new class of televisions – ones that feature superior image quality and color saturation, longer lifetime, higher reliability, instant turn on, a simpler light engine design, and lower power consumption.” The PhlatLight product family has been optimized for microdisplay-based rear projection light engines and televisions. PhlatLight chipsets can be used with Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS), or Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) microdisplays in single, dual or three panel configurations. PhlatLight chipsets use a proprietary packaging technology that allows for efficient cooling and maximum performance, and are currently being manufactured in mass production volumes.

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