LED lighting is probably one of the most significant industry advancements in the last 20 years and has far-reaching implications outside of the world of aquariums . This has been validated with the awarding of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics being awarded to the trio of scientists who invented the blue light emitting diode. Why is this significant? Because we get cool actinic lights? Nope, because without the blue LED, we would not be able to generate white light. Sadly, while this advancement has been honored the original inventor of the LED in the 1960s still has not been recognized for his truly revolutionary discovery.
Thethree researchers awarded以荣誉为荣誉，伊萨穆·阿卡基（Isamu Akasaki），木马（Hiroshi Amano）和纳卡村（Shuji Nakamura）认识到，氮化盐会导致蓝色，并通过添加铝和in液，发现一种有效的方式生产光的方法。As you see with RGB led lights, red, green and blue light combine to make white light so the three Nobel Prize scientists solved this final piece of the puzzle to send us on our way towards the fabulous lights we have today and what we haven’t even imagined yet for the future.
As we mentioned earlier, while the advent of white LED light is significant, we would not be discussing it without the creation of the first LED. In 1962, Nick Holonyak invented the first visible-spectrum LED (that happened to be red) and the technology quickly revolutionized the world. AsGeek.compoints out, “The LEDs changed networking, data storage, data transmission, and more; the impact of LEDs can be seen in everything from your smartphone screen to your fiber internet connection to your next car’s headlights.”
Holonyak indicated he long ago gave up any hope that there would be a Nobel awarded to his invention, and as you can imagine was quite a shock when he learned someone earned it for the technology he himself invented. There are many facets and arguments to why one type of LED was honored over another, but from our perspective we are thankful to both camps.
