New LED Technology Outshines Current Lighting thanks to Nobel Prize Winner and SORAA Founder

In 2014, Dr. Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Additionally, Dr. Nakamura is also the founder of Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaN™ LED technology.

The technology was developed from 1993 and 1995, when Nakamura developed a practical way to manufacture efficient blue and ultraviolet LEDs, which are the basis for ‘white’ LEDs.

Nakamura’s discovery has led to the creation and growth of a new industry based on high-brightness LEDs. These much more efficient lighting solutions are quickly replacing incandescent, gas-discharge, and fluorescent lighting in vehicles, homes, businesses, and outdoors.

In 2007, Nakamura, working together with professors Dr. Steven DenBaars and Dr. James Speck, collaborated to raise the bar in LED technology, taking a path completely different than current industry practice.

The team at Soraa is committed to develop GaN on GaN™ LEDs that produce more light per area of LED and are more cost-effective than technology based on other foreign substrates like sapphire or silicon carbide.

According to a recent press release, the team has succeeded. Soraa’s LEDs currently emit more light per LED material than any other LED; handle more electric current per area than any other LED; and its GaN on GaN™ crystals are up to a thousand times purer than any other LED crystals.