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Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
News Release from: MRC Components | Subject: AOT-1206-3D-RGB03 ChipLED
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 February 2003
Three LEDs in one make colourful
backlights
AOT of Taiwan has developed a novel tricolour ChipLED surface-mount LED that allows next-generation handset and PDA designers to mix separate red, green and blue light sources in any combination.
AOT of Taiwan has developed a novel tricolour ChipLED surface-mount LED that allows next-generation handset and PDA designers to mix separate red, green and blue light sources in any combination This makes it easy for a manufacturer to select a backlighting colour to differentiate its products, allowing colours to change based on a particular application
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The AOT-1206-3D-RGB03 ChipLED is intended primarily for backlighting and status indicators in handheld devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
In handsets, for example, separate colours can indicate incoming SMS messages, e-mail, stock news, and even identify different callers.
In addition to handhelds, the availability of an unlimited range of illumination colours provides a new degree of design flexibility in many other applications such as backlighting and status indication in office and industrial equipment and home appliances.
It features high-efficiency LED chips at 20mA for red 60-100mcd, for blue 90-130mcd and for green 160-220mcd - to provide the highest brightness at lowest power consumption for handheld products.
The tricolour LED features a four-terminal common anode and is housed in a 1206 housing 3.0 x 2.0 x 0.8mm ChipLED package and is perfect for pickup by automated manufacturing equipment.
The parts are available on a standard 12mm tape 3000 pieces per reel and sealed in moisture barrier bags.
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