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Blue LED inventors awarded Nobel Prize for creating white LED lighting revolution

2014-10-07 13:40:42| Extremetech

The three Japanese scientists who invented the first efficient blue LEDs in the mid 1990s have received the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. The invention of efficient blue LEDs was a foundational step in the creation of the bright white LED lights being produced by the likes of Cree and Philips, which are driving the most significant transformation in lighting technology since the invention of the incandescent bulb.

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