2014 Nobel Prize Winner and Soraa Founder Shuji Nakamura to Hold International Media Teleconference

Shuji Nakamura, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics and founder of Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaN™ LED technology, will hold a media teleconference on Wednesday, October 29 at 2:00 PM GMT. Nakamura will discuss his Nobel Prize winning achievement and how it led to the founding of Soraa.

In 1993 and 1995, Nakamura developed a practical way to manufacture efficient blue and ultraviolet LEDs, which are the basis for ‘white’ LEDs. His discovery enabled an entire industry based on high-brightness LEDs replacing incandescent, gas-discharge, and fluorescent lighting in vehicles, homes, businesses, and outdoors.

In 2007, Nakamura, along with pioneering professors Dr. Steven DenBaars and Dr. James Speck, came together and made a bet on an LED technology platform completely different than current industry practice, a technology most industry experts at the time considered to be impossible to execute.

Soraa bet that GaN on GaN™ LEDs would produce more light per area of LED and be more cost-effective than technology based on other foreign substrates like sapphire or silicon carbide. This strategy ran against every trend in the LED industry. That bet paid off: today, Soraa’s LEDs 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.

Soraa’s high performance LED lamps powered by the company’s GaN on GaN™ LED technology are available worldwide. For more information, visit www.soraa.com.

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