LED2.0 10 times brighter than ordinary LED

February 9th, the United States, California's innovative company Soraa announced the launch of its flagship product - known as LED2.0 technology led (LED) lighting products.

It is reported that Soraa invented this new LED bulb, 10 times brighter than ordinary LED. A 12 watt bulb, which is about the same size as a 50 Watt halogen bulb, saves electricity by up to 75%. Therefore, the product is considered to be the first comparable to the traditional 50 Watt halogen bulb LED bulbs. Moreover, the product does not require a mechanical fan, and the use of optimized electrical design, making it and the common transformer and dimmer fully compatible, both indoor and outdoor can be used.

Company executives did not disclose the cost of such bulbs, but said that within 1 years can be recovered by saving electricity costs, rather than ordinary LED products usually take a few years to recover the cost.

Soraa is the world's leading gallium nitride developer to develop the world's first commercial gallium nitride LED products. Soraa was founded in 2008, one of the founders of Nakamura Shuji, the father of the blue LED. Soraa president and CEO Kim also Bingguo qualifications prominent, the past has served as vice president of Samsung Electronics global marketing business department, senior vice president of Intel is also the first external.

Compared with incandescent lamps and halogen bulbs, LED high efficiency, non-toxic, long life, is a better choice. However, if the LED to the entire room lighting, there are technical and cost challenges.

Typically, LED is fabricated on sapphire or silicon substrates with a thin layer of gallium nitride (GaN). The Soraa another way to use gallium nitride as a substrate, which reduces the mismatch between the two layers of crystal structure. In this way, Soraa claims to be able to increase the brightness 10 times.

This is also known as the Soraa technology LED2.0 technology.

It is reported that the general 50 watts of LED lights need to integrate a number of bulbs, but the Soraa LED lamp requires only one chip or diode can reach up to 50 watts.

Gallium nitride is significantly more expensive than sapphire or silicon based materials. University of Cambridge Department of materials science and Metallurgy Research Director, CamGaN founder Colin Humphreys semiconductor company that the use of a large area of Gan expensive -- silicon wafer diameter of 6 inches only need $30, 2 inch sapphire wafers is similar, but the 1 inch gallium nitride wafer requires $500. "Soraa may be able to significantly reduce the cost of gallium nitride chips, but it will not be possible to achieve the same level as silicon wafers and sapphire wafers. "Humphreys says.

But Jin Bingguo is not worried. He said, Soraa has an innovative manufacturing technology, can greatly reduce the production cost and claimed that the GaN substrate, cost is only a small part of the bulb, but this benefit is far greater than the expenditure. "We have a simple, high light density light source, can reduce system design, making it the most cost-effective products. "Kim said Bingguo.

Previously, Soraa through two rounds of financing to get more than $100 million in start-up funds, plans to sell the first batch of LED2.0 products in the end of the quarter.