Three scientists who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on ...

If you love the lasers of science fiction, rejoice because the future will be full of them, according to Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura, co-inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED). The power ...

If you love the lasers of science fiction, rejoice because the future will be full of them, according to Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura, co-inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED). The power ...

The next time you look at the screen on your phone or the RGB on your keyboard, thank Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue LED, who made it all possible and should have received way more ...

With the invention of the first LED featuring a red color, it seemed only a matter of time before LEDs would appear with other colors. Indeed, soon green and other colors joined the LED revolution, ...

Let there be light within the bowels of a combine. Blue LED light is a non-chemical weapon capable of stunting the growth of herbicide-resistant weed seeds, but what if LED technology could be ...

Isamu Akasaki, a Japanese scientist who shared a Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue-light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, a long-lasting, energy-efficient technology that was hailed for its ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An invention that promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices — and already helps create the glowing screens of mobile phones, computers and TVs– earned a ...

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Margaret Harris argues the case for the ...

The LED lighting industry lost one of its founding fathers on September 18 th of this year with the passing of Nick Holonyak, Jr, known as the “Father of the light-emitting diode”. His invention of a ...

Energy efficient and long lived, LEDs can be used for hundreds, if not thousands, of important purposes. On the lighter side, these convenient little lights have been the center of many illuminated ...