Alaric Darconville
Flashlight Enthusiast
Koito (the famed Tier 1 supplier to such as Toyota) is at it again, with a new red phosphor high-CRI white LEDs. It's called "Fluorine Oxygen Ligand Phosphor", or "FOLP:Eu2+".
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/atclen/news_en/15mk/011101836/ shows the sciency bit, but in short most white LEDs are somewhat deficient in red output, which makes higher CRIs difficult to attain.
This could mean that one day we have warm-to-neutral (or even strictly neutral) LED headlamps with high luminous efficacy and high CRI. Perhaps this could mean that existing 6000+ CCT LED headlamps will look antiquated and be undesirable, and soon we won't have to deal with all that "just like daylight" handwaving that is the current marketing spiel.
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/atclen/news_en/15mk/011101836/ shows the sciency bit, but in short most white LEDs are somewhat deficient in red output, which makes higher CRIs difficult to attain.
This could mean that one day we have warm-to-neutral (or even strictly neutral) LED headlamps with high luminous efficacy and high CRI. Perhaps this could mean that existing 6000+ CCT LED headlamps will look antiquated and be undesirable, and soon we won't have to deal with all that "just like daylight" handwaving that is the current marketing spiel.