With the invention of the first LED featuring a red color, it seemed only a matter of time before LEDs would appear with other colors. Indeed, soon green and other colors joined the LED revolution, ...

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It’s hard to believe that the first blue LED didn’t arrive until 1993. They look simple, but looks are deceiving. Producing various LED colors involved applying electric currents to materials with ...

Three scientists who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on ...

The LED lighting industry lost one of its founding fathers on September 18 th of this year with the passing of Nick Holonyak, Jr, known as the “Father of the light-emitting diode”. His invention of a ...