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Hiroshi Amano: How Blue Light Changed the World

Susanne Dambeck

Hiroshi Amano: How Blue Light Changed the World

Finding a method to produce blue LEDs not only rendered flatscreen TVs and smartphones possible, among others. It also means lighting the world.Finding a method to produce blue LEDs not only rendered flatscreen TVs and smartphones possible, among others. It also means lighting the world.

Stephanie Hanel

Illuminated three times – Nobel Prize in Physics for the lighting technology of the 21st century

After decades of research Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura had a decisive breakthrough: The blue LED.