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Shuji Nakamura wins Inventor of the Year award

The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA) honoured Soraa co-founder Nakamura for his pioneering work in the gallium nitride based LED industry

Soraa has announced that co-founder Shuji Nakamura received the Inventor of the Year Award from The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA).

Each year the SVIPLA recognises an individual who has made an exceptional contribution in the technical arts and this year has chosen to honour Nakamura for his technological innovations, including the development of Soraa's GaN on GaN technology.



Shuji Nakamura, Co-founder of Soraa

"Shuji's pioneering work has enabled Soraa to produce the most advanced LED lamps on the market," says Eric Kim, CEO of Soraa. "As we continue to innovate, we are pleased to see our co-founder honoured for the work that started it all. For those who have followed his contributions to the industry and to LED technology, this award has special meaning."

Nakamura, known by some in the lighting industry as the "inventor of high-brightness blue and white LEDs," has filed more than 700 patent applications, and can claim at least 360 authorised invention patents.

His development of nitride-based semiconductors, which eventually led to Soraa's "simply perfect" LED lamps is cited by the SVIPLA as "one of the most important achievements in the materials science of semiconductors in the last 30 years."

"I am proud to be recognised by the property law association and I thank them for this. My focus is to create efficient lighting products that do not compromise on performance, offer the highest quality available and greatly reduce energy waste," says  Nakamura.  

Using the GaN on GaN technology developed by Nakamura, Soraa produces LEDs that perform much better than LEDs from other manufacturers that typically deposit GaN on non-native substrates like silicon or sapphire.

Soraa says GaN on GaN allows a much smaller, brighter LED brighter diode and makes it possible to use one LED light emitter per lamp-manufacturers using other substrates must use three, four and even more diodes to achieve equivalent brightness.

Multiple sources of light within a lamp mean fuzzy shadows and not the crisp light required of an MR-16 for best use in commercial, museum or high-end consumer applications. MR-16 lamps, or bulbs, are Soraa's first commercially available products.
 
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