A team of researchers from the Siemens subsidiary Osram has won the 2007 German Future Prize. Federal President Horst Köhler awarded the prize for the project “Light from Crystals”. The researchers have developed a new process for manufacturing highly efficient, long-life light sources from light-emitting diodes (LED).
The so called “thin-film” technology makes it possible to produce extremely bright LED chips and to position them very closely to one another, thus creating a larger luminous field. These ultra-efficient LEDs are suitable for general lighting purposes and headlights in vehicles.