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101. NOBEL PRIZE - PHYSICS

♤ Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura from Japan have been jointly awarded Nobel Prize for physics for inventing Blue LEDs.


 

Why LED is important?How do LED lights work?Why Blue LED is so important?o With the use of Gallium Nitride (GaN) blue LEDs can be produced; however to grow gallium nitride crystals of high enough quality was the real challenge.

  

 

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