Saphlux received $5 million in financing, and the new generation of luminescent materials is moving towards mass production or 'close at hand'

Today, Chen Chen, the founder of Saphlux, revealed that the project had received A round A investment of 5 million US dollars led by Liad in February 14, followed by real Fund, Elm Street and NXT, the funds will be mainly used for the mass production of a new generation of potassium nitride luminescent materials and the research and development of application products. In last September, pencil Road reported on the project ( 'With an investment of 1. 5 million US dollars from a piece of material, he brought 10 times the brightness of lighting to solve the physical problems'). At that time, the team got 1. 5 million dollars Angel wheel investment by virtue of a piece of luminescent material which could bring ten times brightness, and had already solved the mass production problem of large-size semi-polar potassium nitride material technically. Once the product is launched, three of the top five LED manufacturers adopt it. Chen Chen's heart is white, this is both a milestone and an inflection point. Real industrial production is still a long way ahead. At that time, the team relied on laboratory equipment, and the machine could produce one piece of potassium nitride luminescent material at a time. It could only produce a few pieces a day, and the price was about 560 US dollars, which was far from meeting the commercial demand. Continue to move forward and need capital blessing. Hard technology is like a protracted war, and it must be patiently polished. We want to set up high enough technical barriers and simple business models. Note: Chen Chen promises that the data in the text is correct and responsible for its authenticity. Out of the Laboratory of potassium nitride luminescent materials, since Nakamura Xiu II developed Blue LED in 1990s, solid-state display lighting with semiconductor luminescent materials as the core has gone through more than 20 years, its brightness has reached its limit. Scholars want to be brighter. Semi-polar potassium nitride luminescent materials have theoretically been proved to be ten times brighter than in the past. But it can't be mass-produced, making it only the darling of the laboratory. This situation improved in last May. Saphlux, a start-up company founded in Yale, has technically realized the mass production of potassium nitride luminescent materials, with sizes of 2 inches, 4 inches and 6 inches. Once the news was exposed, large companies in the LED industry, as well as governments and research institutions, came to the door. One of the orders made the team extremely excited. Mail from UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara) It is sent by a highly respected professor in the potassium nitride research room of Nakamura, and the sentence in the text is congratulations. Large-size, semi-polar potassium nitride materials without stacking faults are the problems they have not solved and the key to opening the next generation of semiconductor lighting materials. The team lit the LED sample, and the team was also helpless. The orders sent are hundreds of pieces, and Chen Chen can only send two pieces to try. At that time, the team's research and development equipment was only an experimental single chip microcomputer, and only one piece of potassium nitride luminescent material could be produced in one furnace. Even if it did not stop, it was far from meeting the needs of industrial production. The project is at an inflection point, and it is necessary to explore industrial mass production. A new device costs $1 millions or 2 millions. Hard technology is not like many software companies. If you tighten your belt, you can hold it for a while with less salary. If you want to install equipment, you have to ask for money.