Light emitting diode (LED)
- ID-nummer
- 2014.026.001:e
- Titel
- Light emitting diode (LED)
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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This diode is an early version of the blue-light-emitting diode (LED) developed by Isamu Akasaki in 1978. It is a MIS (metal-insulator-semiconductor) LED and was the brightest until then. In the 1980s, working with Hiroshi Amano, Akasaki did further research on gallium nitride crystals, which eventually led to blue diodes that could be combined with red and green ones to make white light.
Isamu Akasaki donated the LED to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2014.
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