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Shuji Nakamura (中村 修二, Nakamura Shūji, born May 22, 1954) is a Japanese-American electronic engineer and inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. [3] Nakamura specializes in the field of semiconductor technology, and he is a professor of materials science at the College of Engineering of the University of ...
LED display of a TI-30 scientific calculator (c. 1978), which uses plastic lenses to increase the visible digit size X-Ray of a 1970s 8-digit LED calculator display. Until 1968, visible and infrared LEDs were extremely costly, on the order of US$200 per unit, and so had little practical use. [23]
Isamu Akasaki (赤﨑 勇, Akasaki Isamu, January 30, 1929 – April 1, 2021) was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.
The first LED was created by Soviet inventor Oleg Losev [9] in 1927, but electroluminescence was already known for 20 years, and relied on a diode made of silicon carbide. ...
February is Black History Month and it pays tribute to the achievements of African Americans throughout U.S. history. It has been celebrated since 1976, but actually started back in 1926 with ...
Led by a Santa Rosa teacher, an educational task force planned a "Women’s History Week" celebration in 1978, which included a parade, essay contest, and dozens of presentations on women's ...
Everyone, we’re led to believe, is broke, sad, grumpy, and just generally rather unhappy with themselves. All this despite the fact that nobody ever even called January “the cruellest month”.
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