Optogan

The Optogan group is a vertically integrated producer of High-Brightness LED lights based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Optogan is also active in Finland and Germany.

Founded in 2004 by three graduates of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Optogan is owned by various private and government investment funds.

History
Optogan was founded in 2004 in Espoo, Finland, by Dr. Maxim Odnoblyudov, Dr. Vladislav Bougrov, and Dr. Alexey Kovsh, graduates of the chair of Nobel Prize laureate Zhores Alferov. They have received several rounds of financing from various European VC investment funds. After the initial technology development stage, the company R&D and pilot production line was expanded to the MST Factory site in Dortmund, Germany. After five years of technology development, in 2008, a strategic investor acquired the company, the Russian private equity group Onexim. In 2009, Russian government investment funds Rusnano and RIK joined Onexim as investors to develop a full-scale production facility for HB LEDs in the Strelna Free-Economic Zone near St. Petersburg, Russia.

Activities
Optogan is investing in further R&D of GaN technology and building an LED manufacturing facility near St. Petersburg that can produce 1.5 billion HB LEDs a month.

Technology
Optogan company possesses the whole value chain of technologies in solid-state lighting (SSL) necessary for producing GaN-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) and consumer-oriented SSL luminaries. The chain of technologies include Massive breakthroughs in GaN-based LED technology started from pioneering works by S. Nakamura in the early 1990s. OptoGaN technologies are characterized by improved quality of GaN wafers and patented LED epilayer structure with enhanced light generation capability, original f-PowerTM chip design enabling uniform electric current distribution over 300 A/cm2, effectiveness of LEDs as high as 110 lm/W which is at the front level of World leading LED manufactures. OptoGaN intellectual property (IP) and technologies are covered by 35 granted and pending patents.
 * Epitaxial growth of high-quality semiconductor (GaN) wafers by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)  technique;
 * LED chip design and fabrication;
 * LED packaging, including phosphor coating for the conversion of the blue and ultraviolet  radiation in the visible white light spectrum, and lens molding;
 * Multichip LED mounting is on a printed circuit board, and various luminaries are finally assembled.