Fascinating facts about Shuji
Nakamura inventor of
blue light emitting diodes
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Shuji Nakamura |
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AT A GLANCE:
The 2006 Millennium Technology Prize was awarded to Shuji Nakamura.
Professor Nakamura has developed a new, revolutionary source of light –
bright-blue, green and white LEDs and a blue laser. The technology is used
in several applications which improve the quality of human life. Professor
Nakamura is widely recognized as the world pioneer in light emitters based
on the wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN). Nakamura’s
breakthrough year was 1993, when he stunned the optoelectronic community
with the announcement of very bright blue GaN-based light emitting diodes,
LEDs. Source:
Millennium Technology Prize |
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