Nobel Laureate Lecture at Macao Science Center

Speaker:

Prof. Shuji Nakamura Nobel Laureate in Physics 2014, Professor of the University of California, Santa Barbara - UCSB)

Date & Time:

24 April 2015, 12:00 - 13:00

Language:

English

Venue:

Convention Hall, Macao Science Center

Speaker profile:

Professor Nakamura Shuji graduated from the University of Tokushima in 1977 with a degree in electronic engineering, and obtained a master's degree in the same subject two years later, after which he joined the Nichia Corporation, also based in Tokushima. He was awarded a Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Tokushima in 1994. He left Nichia Corporation in 1999 and took a position as a professor of engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"

Abstract:

The history of development of InGaN-based blue LED is described in this lecture. Currently, LED is grown on sapphire substrate. GaN on GaN technology is coming to improve the LED performance further.