Really?
For better blue LEDs?
Are you kidding me.
I mean, don't get me wrong, that's great and all, and better and more efficient powerful blue LEDs are always nice but the ones we have today are good enough. I mean, blue LEDs have been around for 20 years and they're good enough. I mean, shouldn't the Nobel prize go for like... big advances in a field instead of just improving something. There is no new massive groundbreaking technology involved in making these blue LEDs. They're just using a different coating. That's all.
Ah well, good for them anyway.
They more than doubled its efficiency, and considering the worldwide use of LED that's a huge saving in global power consumption.
I agree they could find someone better, but perhaps there were none?
I think what is missing is the prize is for a practical led light bulb.Really?
For better blue LEDs?
Are you kidding me.
I mean, don't get me wrong, that's great and all, and better and more efficient powerful blue LEDs are always nice but the ones we have today are good enough. I mean, blue LEDs have been around for 20 years and they're good enough. I mean, shouldn't the Nobel prize go for like... big advances in a field instead of just improving something. There is no new massive groundbreaking technology involved in making these blue LEDs. They're just using a different coating. That's all.
Ah well, good for them anyway.
Really?
For better blue LEDs?
Are you kidding me.
I mean, don't get me wrong, that's great and all, and better and more efficient powerful blue LEDs are always nice but the ones we have today are good enough. I mean, blue LEDs have been around for 20 years and they're good enough. I mean, shouldn't the Nobel prize go for like... big advances in a field instead of just improving something. There is no new massive groundbreaking technology involved in making these blue LEDs. They're just using a different coating. That's all.
Ah well, good for them anyway.
When Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura produced bright blue light beams from their semi-conductors in the early 1990s, they triggered a funda-mental transformation of lighting technology. Red and green diodes had been around for a long time but without blue light, white lamps could not be created. Despite considerable efforts, both in the scientific community and in industry, the blue LED had remained a challenge for three decades.
They succeeded where everyone else had failed. Akasaki worked together with Amano at the University of Nagoya, while Nakamura was employed at Nichia Chemicals, a small company in Tokushima. Their inventions were revolutionary. Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th century; the 21st century will be lit by LED lamps.
It led the way for white light LEDs. :wink: Without blue, you cannot create white light.Really?
For better blue LEDs?
Are you kidding me.
I mean, don't get me wrong, that's great and all, and better and more efficient powerful blue LEDs are always nice but the ones we have today are good enough. I mean, blue LEDs have been around for 20 years and they're good enough. I mean, shouldn't the Nobel prize go for like... big advances in a field instead of just improving something. There is no new massive groundbreaking technology involved in making these blue LEDs. They're just using a different coating. That's all.
Ah well, good for them anyway.
It led the way for white light LEDs. :wink: Without blue, you cannot create white light.
I bet they had Thomas Edison in mind when they won the prize.
I think what is missing is the prize is for a practical led light bulb.
It may not seem like much, but could be a world changer.
We take electric lights for granted, but many parts of the world still do not have electric lighting.
Incandescent lights are very inefficient for solar panels, but led lights greatly expand the amount
of 'daylight" you can move into the night hours.
The Nobel Prize for Physics is for a guy who improved upon a 20 year old technology ?????
Wow ! Its a simple pn-junction diode encased in epoxy with varying width band gaps.
And Edison and Nobel Prize shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence.
If it were up to Eddison we would still be living we would still be using 1930s technology
Did you watch the "live" press release? Apparently Edison was mentioned.
The inefficiencies of solar panels are meaningless, compared to only fire light.Solar Panels are very inefficient.
Wow ! Its a simple pn-junction diode encased in epoxy with varying width band gaps.
If it were up to Eddison we would still be living we would still be using 1930s technology
Really?
For better blue LEDs?
Are you kidding me.
I mean, don't get me wrong, that's great and all, and better and more efficient powerful blue LEDs are always nice but the ones we have today are good enough. I mean, blue LEDs have been around for 20 years and they're good enough. I mean, shouldn't the Nobel prize go for like... big advances in a field instead of just improving something. There is no new massive groundbreaking technology involved in making these blue LEDs. They're just using a different coating. That's all.
Ah well, good for them anyway.
I reads something to the effect that the reason Edison and Tesla never got the prize was that one could hardly be awarded without the other, but that the two men hated each other so much that it was feared they would disrupt the occasion by getting into a fist fight.I bet they had Thomas Edison in mind when they won the prize.
If one is an inventor, there is arguably no better inspiration than Thomas Edison. Edison was one of history's most prolific inventors. Not everything panned out, but his electric light proved to be basic innovation that was transformational.
Politicians have no influence on Nobel Prize selection, and the scientific awards are for the most part well-deserved.Politicians have turned the Nobel Prize into a farce.
I reads something to the effect that the reason Edison and Tesla never got the prize was that one could hardly be awarded without the other, but that the two men hated each other so much that it was feared they would disrupt the occasion by getting into a fist fight.