The Invention of Blue LEDs: Transforming Modern Life and the Global Energy Landscape
Introduction The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for their pioneering invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the early 1990s. This invention marked a technological revolution that transformed the world of lighting and electronics. While red and green LEDs had existed for decades,…