Lumistrips LED Lighting Blog

A micro-sized, high brightness powerful LED package is referred to as CSP (Chip Scale Package) LED. CSP makes the LED smaller while having the same power.

A CSP LED is equal to an LED chip or can be a maximum of 20% larger and thus has a high light intensity. It also does not contain a wire connection like conventional SMD LEDs, a factor that makes it a more stable product, with better thermal performance than conventional LEDs.

As a result, the Direct Mountable Chip technology slashes at one major element of system cost: heat management. With thermal resistance of only 0.3 (℃/W junction to Ts measuring point), heat sinks can be smaller or higher performance can be obtained without increasing the heat sink. 

p>As a manufacturer, we aim to use the newest LEDs technology in our LED strips and modules. One particularly interesting new technology is the Chip Scale Packaged LEDs, known as CSP or Flip-Chip LEDs.

Before choosing the best performing CSP LED for our products we have compared more than a dozen models from the top LED manufacturers: Nichia, Samsung, Philips Lumileds and Seoul Semiconductor.

For a meaningful comparison we selected LEDs that function at 350 and 700 mA with a voltage between 2.75 and 3.2 V.

For each category we compared the luminous flux and luminous efficacy at the usual junction "lab temperature" of 25ºC and at a more realistic 100ºC. The comparison data is that from the manufacturers datasheet.

CSP at 700mA, maximum 2.5 Watt, for street or outdoor lighting, 5000K, CRI 70.

At 25ºC The Nichia CSP LED has 20% higher flux (304 lm) and 27% better efficacy (145 lm/W) than the second performer, Seoul WICOP (247lm and 114 lm/w). Luxeon Flip Chip White 10 has similar performance (242 lm/w 115lmw) to Seoul while Samsung lags somewhat behind (210 lm and 95 lm/w).

With the development of LED lighting and the high demands of consumers, LED chip manufacturers are continuously improving and innovating. The development of Chip Scale Packaged (Flip Chip or CSP) LEDs is such an inovation, with several advantages: no substrate, solderless cabling, small size and high optical density.

CSP, or Chip Scale Package, is defined as an LED package with a size equivalent to an LED chip, or no larger than 20%. The CSP product has integrated component features that do not require soldered wire connections, reducing thermal resistance, reducing the heat transfer path, and reducing potential sources of error.

Usually, a light emitting diode (LED) has two key components, the LED chip that emits the light and the LED package which focuses it, enables assembly into lighting products and transfers the heat away to the heat sink.

Optisolis LEDs from Nichia have the full spectrum of sunlight

The latest innovation from world market leader Nichia in LED development is the Optisolis technology. The full-spectrum Optisolis LEDs NF2W757G-F1 and NF2L757G-F1 LEDs are capable of generating a light spectrum that comes closest to that of the sun. 

The Optisolis LEDs are Ultra-High CRI light sources, with almost maximum scores for all 16 of the color samples that are used in the color rendering index metric. The 5000K Nichia NF2L757G-F1 Optisolis LED can achieve a Ra of 99 out of 100 and equaliy high IES TM-30-15 scores, of Rf 98 and Rg at 99.