Shuji Nakamura, born on May 22nd, 1954, graduated from Tokushima University, Japan, is a Japanese-American electronic engineer, and is a professor in the Department of Materials, School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.

It is well known that Shuji Nakamura developed a high brightness blue LED based on GaN during his tenure in Riya Company in 1993. At that time, it was considered impossible to develop blue LED. In the previous 20 years, there were only red and green LEDs.

20 14, 14/On October 7th, Isamu Akasaki, Amano Hao and Shuji Nakamura won the 20 14 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the "efficient blue light emitting diode".

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Professor Shuji Nakamura's innovation enables LED manufacturers to produce three primary colors (red, green and blue) LEDs, thus making it possible to achieve 6.5438+0.6 million colors. Perhaps most importantly, the LED industry started the commercial production of white LED (semiconductor ecological light source) by using this new technology.

From 65438 to 0989, Professor Nakamura began to study blue LED based on group III nitrogen materials. Because of his outstanding achievements in blue LED, Professor Nakamura won a series of honors, including PeopleSoft Memorial Award (1996), IEEE Jack A. Morton Award, and the highest science award in Britain.

Franklin Medal (2002), Professor Nakamura was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2003 and won the Millennium Science and Technology Award in 2006. In 2000, Professor Nakamura joined the University of California, Santa Barbara. He obtained more than 100 patents and published more than 200 papers.

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