Revolutionizing Indoor Lighting with SunLike Series LEDs - Enhancing Health, Well-being, and True Colors

In today’s fast-paced world, people spend a significant portion of their lives indoors. As a result, choosing the right quality of lighting is crucial to ensure a healthy and productive lifestyle. While natural light has been proven to be the most effective light source for our overall well-being, it is often inaccessible within buildings. Seoul Semiconductor, a South Korean company, has developed human-centric lighting that closely resembles the natural sunlight spectrum, aiming to bridge this gap. This article will delve into the SunLike Series LEDs’ features, benefits, and applications that make it a game-changer in the lighting industry.

The Innovative Technology Behind SunLike Series LEDs

Seoul Semiconductor’s SunLike Series LEDs are true natural spectrum LEDs designed to produce light that closely matches the spectrum of natural sunlight. This remarkable achievement stems from a novel LED architecture that combines a purple emitter with a red, green, and blue (RGB) phosphor mix, setting it apart from conventional white LEDs that use a blue emitter and yellow phosphor.

The SunLike Series fundamentally transforms lighting technology by eliminating the blue LED light source and replacing it with a purple light LED chip. Consequently, the new SunLike Series does not exhibit the blue energy peak associated with eye discomfort and disrupted sleep patterns, making it a healthier alternative for indoor lighting.

In comparison to ordinary LEDs, SunLike’s LEDs have a spectrum very similar to sunlight, allowing light sources equipped with SunLike Series LEDs to more accurately render the colors of objects as they would appear in natural sunlight. SunLike LEDs boast a color rendering index (CRI) of 97, which is strikingly close to the CRI-100 of sunlight and significantly higher than the CRI-80 of conventional LEDs.

 

The SunLike packaged LED technology from Seoul is based in part on a Toshiba phosphor technology called TRI-R. By using the TRI-R, the LEDs deliver a uniform and broad spectral power distribution (SPD) that is more like sunlight than are typical phosphor-converted white LEDs.

Applications of SunLike Series LEDs

The applications of this new LED technology, with its diminished blue light peak, similar spectral curve to sunlight, accurate rendering of colors, and reduced scattered reflection and glare are many, from human-centric lighting for our home and office to commercial and art lighting.

Lighting for Healthy Biorhythms

Studies have found sunlight to be an essential factor for creating healthy biorhythms. SunLike LEDs are creating lighting that mimics the natural daylight that drives human bodily functions. It enhances human performance, comfort, health, and well-being. These are the essence of Human-Centric lighting.

Human-Centric lighting

Human-centric lighting is a lighting design that is designed to work with the human body’s natural rhythms. Light helps regulate our sleep-wake cycles and other bodily rhythms and has a significant impact on our mood and well-being. Human-centric lighting adjusts its brightness and color temperature during the day to mimic natural light. Seoul Semiconductor’s SunLike Series LEDs are the first LEDs to be closely matched to real sunlight, so they have the right level of blue that triggers the desired biological stimulus. The LumibarTW Toshiba-SSC 112 LED Strip Zhaga Sunlike CRI98 offers genuine human-centric lighting in an easy-to-install and control package.

Light to improve sleep patterns

Long exposure to conventional lighting that emits excessive blue light increases eye and body fatigue and disrupts sleep patterns. Sunlike LEDs lowers excessive blue light wavelengths and reproduces the light spectrum at the same level as natural sunlight. In a study by researchers of the Seoul National University, volunteers using the SunLike lamps fell asleep 23% faster than those using standard LED lamps, and those using the SunLike lamps noted a decrease in eye fatigue along with improved sleep quality. These results are explained by the diminished amount of blue light found in the spectrum of SunLike LEDs compared with other LED light sources.

Commercial lighting revealing true color of merchandise

 

 

Seoul SunLike light fixtures can make merchandise look like it would under natural light, with the same color and contrast. The high-quality light spectrum is expressed by both the traditional color rendering index (CRI) and the new Color Fidelity Index. SunLike LEDs have a CRI of 98+ and TM30 Fidelity Index at 96, which indicates the high accuracy of reproducing the original color from 99 representative color indexes. This feature makes SunLike LEDs an ideal choice for retail spaces, where true color representation is crucial for product display and sales.

Light to reveal true color and depth for works of art

 

The uniform spectral power distribution enabled by a three-phosphor mix in SunLike LEDs render art naturally, ensuring that visitors can fully experience color and texture. The light from SunLike LEDs result in a high contrast ratio that means viewers can better perceive depth and, therefore, the texture in the works of art.

Light to reveal true color and depth for works of art

The uniform spectral power distribution enabled by a three-phosphor mix in SunLike LEDs renders art naturally, ensuring that visitors can fully experience color and texture. The light from SunLike LEDs results in a high contrast ratio that means viewers can better perceive depth and, therefore, the texture in the works of art. This makes SunLike LEDs an excellent choice for art galleries, museums, and other spaces where accurate color representation and the ability to perceive subtle details are paramount.

Enhancing workplace productivity and well-being

SunLike Series LEDs can be used in office environments to create a more natural, comfortable, and productive workspace. By mimicking the natural progression of sunlight throughout the day, SunLike LEDs can help regulate employees’ circadian rhythms, improve mood, and increase overall productivity. The reduced glare and eye strain associated with traditional LED lighting also contribute to a more pleasant and comfortable work environment.

Healthcare and therapeutic applications

In healthcare settings, such as hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities, lighting plays a significant role in patient recovery and well-being. SunLike LEDs can provide a more natural, soothing environment for patients, promoting relaxation and contributing to a more positive healing experience. Additionally, SunLike LEDs can be used in therapeutic settings for light therapy, helping to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and other mood-related conditions by simulating natural sunlight.

Easy to build SunLike LED fixtures thanks to our LED strips & modules

With our LumiFlex SunLike LED strips you will have a brilliant natural light source easy to install over long distances, perfect for cove lights, architectural or indirect lighting and with our range of Lumibar SunLike LED modules you can easily build linear lighting fixtures thanks to the plug & play connection and Zhaga format.

Sunlike is World-Recongized innovative technology

Sunlike natural spectrum LEDs have won 10 world innovation awards in five countries, including the German Innovation Award, the Lux Award, and the Korean President's Award