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 ...

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 ...

Since it was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, the incandescent filament lamp had played the leading part in the illumination field for more than a century. However, in the 1990s, Nichia Corporation ...

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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 ...

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-- ...

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 ...

STOCKHOLM, October 7. /TASS/. The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded this year to three Japanese professors for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) “which has enabled bright and ...

URBANA, Ill. — For years many of Nick Holonyak Jr.’s colleagues have said he deserved the Nobel Prize for his invention of the first light-emitting diode, the tiny red light that made fiber-optics ...