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June 14, 2006
QuNano's Out To Disrupt Bright LED Chip Biz
Sweden's QuNano has raised venture capital to make high-brightness light emitting diodes (HBLED) on plain old silicon, rather than the more expensive substrates typically used for this type of semiconductor device.
It's modified CMOS process along with its own nanowire layering technology could be quite disruptive. The pitch is that within a couple of years Qunano could be mass producing LEDs, typically used as backlights and flashes in mobilephones, in long-life flashlights, and traffic lights (to name but a few apps), a lot more cheaply than the incumbents, such as Cree, Lumileds, Osram Opto, and Toshida.
According to its backers, Qunano owns what it calls a nanowire platform technology. The LED market is just the first that it is targeting.
Read - Qunano announces (press release)
Posted on June 14, 2006 08:03 AM | Posted to Early stage | Semiconductors | Venture Capital | Permalink
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