Within the lecture series “Nobel Laureates at TU Dresden”, the American Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura gives a public talk in the Audimax (Hörsaalzentrum) of TU Dresden on Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 7 p.m.

The Japanese-born American material scientist Shuji Nakamura was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 for the development of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Whereas red and green LEDs had been developed in the 1950s and 60s, the production of blue LEDs proved to be very challenging. It was not until the early 90s that Nakamura and the Japanese researchers Akasaki and Amano achieved a breakthrough with the use of the semiconductor gallium nitride. The development of blue LEDs was the prerequisite for the production of white light using the combination of red, green and blue LEDs. Today, we can hardly imagine living without these efficient, energy-saving white light sources that enlighten not only our homes but also smartphone displays and lots of other technical devices.

Nakamura left Japan in 1999 and holds a professorship at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA since 2000.  He owns more than 200 American and over 300 Japanese patents.

His talk Invention of blue LED and future solid state will be transmitted into the lecture hall “Alfred-Post”. We would kindly ask you to register in advance.

For further information and free registration, go to http://tu-dresden.de/mn/nobel

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