The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to three physicists responsible for creating the blue LED. If you're ever come across an LED-- which is highly ...
Deep blue: Scientists have developed hybrid copper iodide crystals that emit deep-blue light. (Courtesy: Kun Zhu/Jing Li Lab/Rutgers University) A team led by researchers at Rutgers University in the ...
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget just how much society relies on these underappreciated technological wonders. Yet, the history of the LED goes back further than ...
The first official LED was created in 1927 by Russian inventor Oleg Losev, however, the discovery of electroluminescence was made two decades prior. British experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs ...
It’s hard to believe that the first blue LED didn’t arrive until 1993. They look simple, but looks are deceiving (Fig. 1). 1. Image showing a blue InGaN-based LED with gold wire contacts (0.4 × 0.4 mm ...