It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
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Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#2Assuming everything is reported fairly, I really can't imagine being Nichia's customer. Ever.
Sacking and not compensating the employee that single-handedly made Nichia successful by inventing a working blue LED and saving Nichia from bankruptcy is just not acceptable.
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#3Assuming everything is reported fairly, I really can't imagine being Nichia's customer. Ever. Sacking and not compensating the employee that single-handedly made Nichia successful by inventing a working blue LED and saving Nichia from bankruptcy is just not acceptable.
I agree with you. It says the original CEO was a researcher himself and that's why he understood the risks funded the request. Things changed after his son-in-law took control as CEO. It doesn't mention if the son-n-law had any background in the industry or semiconductor research, or was just appointed CEO just because he was the son-in-law. I think that's where the company went wrong.
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#4Thanks for the billions in revenue, but remember how I told you to quit trying to use GaN to solve the blue LED problems? Well here's $147 for your patent and clean out your desk, because you're fired.
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#5If only it was impossible. Blue leds are abominable! [EDIT] I hate white ones too so the replies aren't exactly selling them!
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#6If only it was impossible. Blue leds are abominable! [EDIT] I hate white ones too so the replies aren't exactly selling them!
????? Blue LEDs made white LEDs & LED displays possible. And blue light being bad for your circadian rhythm is just as true for an LCD display as it is an LED display.
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#7If only it was impossible. Blue leds are abominable! [EDIT] I hate white ones too so the replies aren't exactly selling them!
I wasn't a big fan of the excessive blue LEDs that appeared everywhere after they were invented, either. Though it was understandable enthusiasm for something new by product developers, after decades of having only red-green combinations.
But blue LEDs are what make white LEDs work, and those have revolutionised ordinary lighting in a big way. The linked video goes into this at the end.
Blue LEDs (or white LEDs, or blue OLEDs) are also used in modern, high quality computer and phone displays.
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#8I loved the closing interview where Nakamura explained he grew up in a fishing village with a view of the sea, inspiring his love of the color blue.
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#9If only it was impossible. Blue leds are abominable! [EDIT] I hate white ones too so the replies aren't exactly selling them!
????? Blue LEDs made white LEDs & LED displays possible. And blue light being bad for your circadian rhythm is just as true for an LCD display as it is an LED display.
Right after the blue LED was possible, everything that wanted to appear "high value" was sticking them in as power indicators, but they were much brighter than previous LEDs.
I was at college at the time and you could read a book by the pulsating sleep blue lights from equipment.
Re: It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
#10If only it was impossible. Blue leds are abominable! [EDIT] I hate white ones too so the replies aren't exactly selling them!
Having blue allowed creating white, and anycolor (RGB) LEDs, so I would not dismiss them just because you don't like the blue color