In many cities today, streets are lit by white lights, screens show vivid colors, and buildings glow with precise patterns of illumination, all depending on a small but important invention from the ...
Thomas Edison may have invented the lightbulb, but he never received the Nobel Prize for it. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at the University of Nagoya, and Shuji Nakamura working at Nichia Chemicals ...
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 ...
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...
The absolute internal quantum efficiency (IQE) of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) based blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at low temperatures is often assumed to be 100%. However, a new study from ...
With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Margaret Harris argues the case for the ...
Do LED lights cause cancer? Can they really reduce crime? One kid is so concerned about LED streetlights that he called Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chicago sixth-grader JJ Nnawuchi loves looking at the stars, ...
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