Research Insights -
February 01, 2015
Lighting up Our Lives - Blue LED
Dr. ZOU Xinbo (IAS Junior Fellow) and CHONG Wing Cheung (PhD Student of Electronic & Computer Engineering, HKUST)


The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists and engineers, Profs Isamu AKASAKI, Hiroshi AMANO, and Shuji NAKAMURA for their invention of energy-efficient and environment-friendly blue light-emitting diode (LED). A natural question from readers might be, “Why blue in particular, but not LEDs in other colors?”
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