Poro Technologies, a spin out from the centre has been awarded 1st prize and £20k investment from the Postdoc Business Plan competition run by Cambridge Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge (EPOC).
Last night, Tongtong Zhu gave a 3 minute pitch to a packed out Peterhouse theatre against 5 other finalists of the competition. He demonstrated the capability and potential of porous GaN for transforming the LED industry through the wafer-scale approach that has been developed here at the centre for GaN. His pitch included a live demonstration of an LED with a porous GaN reflective substrate, as well as a porosified GaN structure on an industrial scale, 8 inch Si Wafer.
The prize is a great step for the spin out, which will now begin the process of finding further seed funding to develop and upscale the technology.