LASSIE-FP7 to Develop LED-Based Modules for Professional and Architectural Lighting

CSEM announced the launch of LASSIE-FP7, a research project funded by the European Commission to develop a unique integrated solid-state module that will constitute a breakthrough in professional and architectural lighting. Solid-state lighting (SSL) represents a new revolution in the lighting domain, comparable to the invention of the incandescent bulb in the 19th century. SSL devices such as semi-conductor-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are the light sources of the future.

They are increasingly used as single components in a variety of lighting applications due to their high efficiency and extremely long lifetimes. However, when it comes to modules and lighting systems, SSL products do not meet required specifications, thus jeopardizing LED modules’ capacity for full market penetration.

“Our goal is to develop innovative, large-area, low-cost, intelligent SSL modules with high efficiency and high lighting quality, while assessing their environmental footprint,” said Rolando Ferrini of CSEM, LASSIE-FP7 project coordinator. “We are targeting in particular the professional and architectural lighting sectors since they are early adopters of SSL technology and a clear breakthrough in these sectors will be the key to a broad, effective deployment of SSL sources”.

LASSIE-FP7 was launched in January 2014 by eight European partners under the coordination of CSEM with an EU contribution of €3.15 million. It aims to achieve progress beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of size, flexibility, efficiency, lighting quality and beam-shaping, lifetime, added intelligence for light output control and production costs. It will integrate light-management structures and new color-changing coatings with heat-management solutions and multispectral sensors for color-sensing feedback by means of an innovative roll-to-roll production technology compatible with flexible substrates.