2014 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER AND SORAA FOUNDER SHUJI NAKAMURA TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL MEDIA TELECONFERENCE
Fremont, Calif. – October 27, 2014 – 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.
WHO: Dr. Shuji Nakamura, Winner of 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics and Founder of Soraa
Jeff Parker, CEO of Soraa
WHAT: International Media Teleconference in English
WHEN: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 2:00 PM GMT
CALL INFO: The US participant number is: 877-229-8493 and the passcode is: 113458
Note, other international toll free country numbers are available upon request when RSVP’ing below.
RSVP: Please RSVP via email to Andy Beck at [email protected].