Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. has announced that the new Volvo EX90 Electric SUV will feature its SunLike LED lights. This is the first application of the SunLike technology with sun spectrum in production vehicles. SunLike, developed and mass-produced by Seoul Semiconductor for the first time in the world, is a healthy light technology that replicates natural light, protecting the 24-hour biological cycle of a human body.

For the past five years, Seoul Semiconductor carried out multiple clinical trials with Harvard University in the United States, the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Seoul National University in Korea, confirming that the use of the solar spectrum, SunLike, can make improvements in myopia, regenerate cells, improve memory, and replicate natural colors. Not all lights are the same, and not all lightings are the same. The closer it is to natural light, the better it is.

Light is a mass of particles with energy, so the longer eyes are exposed to high levels of blue light with high energy, there is a greater chance of damaging photoreceptor cells and developing myopia. This is why children in Asia who spend more time indoors than outdoors under natural light have a high prevalence of myopia. According to the "Rec Recovery From Form-Deprivation Myopia in Chicks Is Dependent Upon the Fullness and Correlated Color Temperature of the Light Spectrum(2020)" by Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), myopia can be improved by using SunLike.

Natural light affects sleep as well. Evening sunlight promotes the secretion of melatonin which helps to sleep. They say more than 70% of 60 trillion body cells regenerate while sleep.

Seoul Semiconductor confirmed through the "Effect of daylight LED on visual comfort, melatonin, mood, waking pecrformance and sleep (2019)" conducted by the University of Basel in Swiss that SunLike lighting improves sleep quality compared to conventional LEDs. MEMORY IMPROVEMENT: getting a good night sleep reduces the possibility of building up toxins in the brain, improving memory and concentration. Seoul Semiconductor confirmed through the “Daytime Exposure to Short Wavelength-Enriched Light Improves Cognitive Performance in Sleep-Restricted College-Aged Adults (2021)” conducted by Harvard Medical School that problem-solving skills improved by 5% and speed increased by 3.2 folds when SunLike lighting was used.

COLOR REPLICATION: Conventional LED with CRI 90 have a 90% color gamut of 14 colors in high CRI 90 (sunlight 100). However, SunLike has a 95% color gamut of all 99 colors. This means that it is closest to the color seen under natural sunlight.

For all interior light fixtures of Volvo EX90, SunLike will be installed. Already widely used by large museums and art galleries around the world, SunLike LEDs have been used to reveal the color and texture of Pompeii ruins' murals in Italy. In addition to Volvo EX90, SunLike will also equip ‘Polestar 3' which shares the same technology base.