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Shuji Nakamura

b. 1954

Shuji Nakamura (born 1954) is a Japanese-born American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing the first high-brightness blue light-emitting diode (LED) in the 1990s, a breakthrough that enabled energy-efficient white light sources and revolutionized lighting technology. He received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, along with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano. Nakamura is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds numerous patents related to semiconductor devices.

Technology

The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story
Development of High-Brightness Blue LEDs
InGaN-Based Multi-Quantum-Well-Structure Laser Diodes
Candela-Class High-Brightness InGaN/AlGaN Double-Heterostructure Blue-Light-Emitting Diodes

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