Cree is raising the standard for half-watt LED devices with the commercial availability of its XLamp ML-E LED. The lighting-class XLamp ML-E provides lighting designers with a solution for distributed LED arrays that can enable them to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENERGY STAR performance criteria.

The XLamp ML-E delivers lighting-class performance in applications where a smooth, uniform appearance is required, such as LED fluorescent-tube replacement, ceiling-mounted panel lights and under-cabinet lighting. The XLamp ML-E delivers full-size features in a small, affordable package with luminous flux of up to 58 lm at 150 mA in cool white (5000 K) and up to 48 lm in warm white (3000 K).

Like the XLamp MX-6 and MX-3 LEDs, the ML-E provides a tightly controlled uniform angular chromaticity and a 120-degree viewing angle, optimized for distributed lighting applications. The XLamp ML-E also shares the same ANSI-compliant chromaticity binning used by the XLamp XP and MX families of LEDs. XLamp ML-E LEDs are available in sample quantities immediately and in production quantities with standard lead times.