I 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.
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#22As someone who has trouble sleeping and particularly needs dark sleep I wish it had been impossible to make a blue LED.
You could, you know, tape over them or something, about 5 mins of work.
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#25As someone who has trouble sleeping and particularly needs dark sleep I wish it had been impossible to make a blue LED.
The color blue is responsible for a lot of misery.
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#26Assuming 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.
It's complicated.
For 1 employee which disobeyed orders and saved the company you'll have 99 which disobeyed orders and don't produce anything useful or even made harm.
This is called the Halo effect.
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#27I'm looking for __pink__ leds, but can't find a good source. Digikey has only very limited options with many packages like 0805 missing.
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What's your point? That statement has nothing to do with the problem at hand.
The problem is that he was unfairly compensated by the economic system (capitalism) he works in, and had to fight for years only to just about break even on legal fees.
The guy's gumption led to the invention of a multi-billion dollar pear year industry, and he got basically none of it.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 b…
White LEDs were/are also made using a UV LED and phosphor.
That sounds dangerous, since not all emissions will be converted.