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Nichia E11A and E17A Series Discrete Color LEDs

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Nichia E11A and E17A Series Discrete Color LEDs

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Nichia offers discrete color LEDs2 for general lighting to meet the needs of its customers. Especially, with the NFSxE11A-V1, NCSxE17A, NCSxE17A-V1, and NCSxE17A-V1L1 LEDs3 (hereinafter referred to as “Nichia E11A and E17A Series LEDs”), the size of a luminaire can be further reduced, and a uniform color can be achieved on the illuminated surface since they are very small. This application note provides the features and the handling precautions for the Nichia E11A and E17A Series LEDs In recent years, color LEDs have started to be used in various types of lighting fixtures in the lighting industry. Before color LEDs, floodlights and stage lighting luminaires used white halogen lamps and color filters (i.e. filters that are colored red, green, or blue, etc.) to create colors (see Figure 1). With this method, a color filter was needed for each color to create the required colors. Additionally, two or more luminaires were required to create intermediate colors

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