The road to creating a blue LED was long and rough, but in 1993, it burst onto the scene. Learn about the struggles and ...

The blue LED was considered the holy grail of electronics. Every lab in the world tried and failed to make one, because the ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to the inventors of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, shining a light on the creation that solved the final puzzle piece to energy-efficient ...

Thomas Edison may have invented the lightbulb, but he never received the Nobel Prize for it. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at the University of Nagoya, and Shuji Nakamura working at Nichia Chemicals ...

With the invention of the first LED featuring a red color, it seemed only a matter of time before LEDs would appear with other colors. Indeed, soon green and other colors joined the LED revolution, ...

In many cities today, streets are lit by white lights, screens show vivid colors, and buildings glow with precise patterns of illumination, all depending on a small but important invention from the ...

The three Japanese scientists who invented the first efficient blue LEDs in the mid 1990s have received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics. The invention of efficient blue LEDs was a foundational step in ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to three physicists responsible for creating the blue LED. If you're ever come across an LED-- which is highly ...

Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and American Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing the blue LED. "In the spirit of Alfred Nobel the Prize rewards an ...