STOCKHOLM -- Two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for inventing blue light-emitting diodes, a breakthrough that has spurred the development of ...
Three researchers helped revolutionize lighting with vastly better energy efficiency and brightness. The light-emitting diodes also are used in data storage, TVs and smartphones. Stephen Shankland ...
Three of the key researchers behind the development of blue LEDs - and therefore the white-light emitters currently revolutionizing the lighting industry - have won the 2014 Nobel prize for physics.