being awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the blue LED, which is the key to modern energy-efficient lighting. The blue light emitting diode (LED) is the basis for modern ...

Engineers use a blue LED to excite some kind of fluorescent ... the committee for the Nobel Prize in physics said in a statement. Nakamura is now a professor at the University of California ...

Now white LED bulbs last up to 100,000 hours, compared with 1,000 hours for an incandescent bulb. Technology based on blue LEDs ... Alfred Nobel “wanted his prize to be given to inventors ...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics went Tuesday to three scientists who gave lighting a makeover by inventing blue LED lights. The award recognizes a seemingly commonplace innovation, but one that ...

The prize, the assembly says ... "The invention of the blue LED is just 20 years old," the Nobel Assembly said in its Tuesday press release, "but it has already contributed to create white ...

But hey, that's why Nakamura, Amano, and Akasaki are being awarded a Nobel Prize. "The invention of the blue LED is just twenty years old, but it has already contributed to create white light in ...

A trio of scientists, two from Japan and one from the U.S., will share the Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which led to a new, environmentally ...

Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Margaret Harris argues the case for the 2014 prize for inventing the blue LED A new hue: blue LEDs are lighting the 21st ...

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 ...

There’s pretty good chance you have a piece of this year’s physics Nobel prize-winning invention in your pocket. The blue light-emitting diode (LED) is found in the screens of millions of ...

Specifically, we couldn't make white light because we lacked the ability to produce blue LEDs. Now, the Nobel Prize in Physics is ... on as a potentially useful LED material, since it has a ...

Using the blue light, LED lamps emitting white light could be ... On Monday, U.S.-British scientist John O'Keefe split the Nobel Prize in medicine with Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard ...