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17 November 2009

 

LED expert joins BluGlass board as non-executive director

BluGlass Ltd of Sydney, Australia, which has developed GaN-on-glass LED technology, says that Dr Alan Li has joined its board as a non-executive director.

Li has 15 years experience in the LED industry, holding senior positions in semiconductor lighting and optoelectronics materials in China and Taiwan. He is currently general manager & chief technology officer of Rainbow Optoelectronics Materials (Shanghai) Co Ltd and is a co-inventor of more than 37 optoelectronics patents. Li has also been a board member of FangDa Guoke Optronics (part of the Chinese listed firm FangDa Group Co Ltd) and is a member of the advisory board of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Centre (SSLEC) at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).

As well as completing a PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra, Li also received an Innovation Award from China's Ministry of Science and Technology in 2006, the ShenZhen Innovation Award of Science and Technology for the Key Technology for Fabrication of High Power LED Chips in 2007, and the GuangDong Science and Technology Award for the Key Technology for Fabrication of High Power LED Chips in 2008. He is also principal researcher in an ongoing R&D project (partly funded by the Scientific Board of Shanghai City) to design new MOCVD reactors.

“His vast industry, commercial and academic experience will be of significant value to our team,” believes BluGlass’s chairman Dr Mike Taverner. “Alan will immediately become an important part in directing the development and commercialization of our technology, with his keen interest in low-temperature nitride growth,” he adds.

Spun off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University in 2005, BluGlass has developed a low-temperature process using remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) to grow materials including gallium nitride (GaN) and indium gallium nitride (InGaN) for the production of high-efficiency devices such as LEDs with what is reckoned to be significant low-cost potential and inherent scalability. In May, BluGlass said that it intended to develop high-efficiency group III nitride solar cells as a supplementary market for its RPCVD technology. Through its subsidiary BluSolar, BluGlass is now exploring the process' viability in photovoltaic applications.

“The company has developed cutting-edge technology which has huge market potential in both the solid-state lighting and solar cell industries,” comments Li.

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