Research Insights - February 01, 2015

Lighting up Our Lives - Blue LED

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One of the 2014 Nobel laureates in Physics, Prof. Shuji NAKAMURA has been our IAS Visiting Professor since 2008.
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0.19 inch 1,700 pixels per inch (PPI) high resolution passive-matrix Light Emitting Diode on Silicon (LEDoS) micro-display for wearable electronics such as head-mounted display.

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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