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OptoGaN Raises $6.7M

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HELSINKI, Finland, June 11, 2007 -- Gallium nitride-based LED maker OptoGaN Oy announced it has raised €5 million (approximately $6.7 million) in its latest funding round, led by the Nordic venture fund Via Venture Partners. The money will be used to market OptoGaN's chips as replacements for incandescent lightbulbs. Most LEDs until now haven't been bright enough to replace incandescent bulbs, and the cost has been too high, Via Venture Partners said, but OtpoGaN's patented technology makes very bright, low-cost LEDs possible, opening the lighting market up to using LEDs for general illumination. LED lamps will use...Read full article

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    Published: June 2007
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    chip
    1. A localized fracture at the end of a cleaved optical fiber or on a glass surface. 2. An integrated circuit.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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