SerenPhotonics is founded on the invention of Dr Tao Wang, Reader in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Dr Wang is leading a research team working on III-nitride semiconductor based optoelectronic devices. The research team has strong links with Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council National Centre for III-V Technologies located in Sheffield. This is a world-class research centre for III-V compound semiconductors, with comprehensive facilities for the fabrication of a wide range of semiconductor based optoelectronic devices. Dr Wang's novel processing technique, combines nanoscience and fundamental physics to greatly increase the efficiency at which an LED converts energy into light.
Successful demonstrations of the technology have so far resulted in a doubling of the light output compared to untreated devices, which means that either muc brighter lamps can be manufactured or that the power consumption of state-of-the-art lamps can be further reduced to a single watt.
Seren Photonic's revolutionary technology is targeted at the large and fast growing white LED markets such as back lighting for laptop computers and TVs, signs and displays as well as domestic and architectural lighting. This market is currently worth an estimated $5bn and is set to grow to $12bn by 2013.
Driven by global warming, the impending energy crisis and enviornmental regulatory requirements, new technology is needed by the lighting industry to replace the incandescent bulbs that most countries have agreed to scrap by the middle of the decade. Seren Photonics patent pending technology expects to be at the forefront of developments that will meet this need, developing Seren LEDs that will have exceptional performance, efficiency and a significant reduction in the cost of manufacture, enabling ultrahigh efficient LEDs to be the first choice replacement for incandescent bulbs.