Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasakiis a Japanese scientist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitridep-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 January 1929
CountryJapan
messages nobel shows
I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.
late low practical prospect red
In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.
aiming crystal devoted front including junction runners
Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.