Conversations
Looking to an LED Future
OPN talks with Shuji Nakamura, co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics and plenary speaker at OSA’s Light, Energy, and Environment Congress.
[Paul Wellman]
This month at OSA’s congress on photonics and the environment, Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), a co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize for his role in the invention of practical blue LEDs, will talk about that development and all that has followed from it. We caught up with Nakamura to get a few pre-meeting thoughts about the ongoing revolution in lighting technology, and what the developments of the past several decades have meant.
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