The Blue LED Inventor

Together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura, Prof. Hiroshi Amano received the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in January 2014 for inventing the blue LED, which later allowed for the development of white energy-saving lighting. Without blue LEDs smartphones, color and flat-screen monitors would be unthinkable. Through his experiments Amano was able to use aluminum nitride as a carrier material for gallium nitride at low temperatures. Through this process he was able to manufacture blue LEDs during his PhD work at the University of Nagoya in Japan. During his talk Amano will report on his research and discuss how sustainability and energy efficiency can be increased through nitride-based semiconductors in electric devices.

• What: Presentation
  
  
• When:
  March 16, 2017, 4:15pm
  
  
• Where:
  Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) 
  Anatomie Lecture Hall
  Albertstraße 19
  79104 Freiburg
  
  
• The event is open to the general public.
  
  

• Host: Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
  
  
• Contact information:
  Dr. Britta Küst, Tel. + 49 (0) 761/203- 97407

• No registration required.
  
  
• Free entrance.
  
  
• The presentation will be held in English.
  
  
• Further information

•  Event poster