Isamu Akasaki
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Isamu Akasaki
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Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well. For this and other achievements, Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009, and the IEEE Edison Medal in 2011. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics, together with Hiroshi Amano and
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Japanese engineer (1929–2021)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isamu_Akasaki
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2007-01-06T07:26:53Z
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2024-09-04T17:20:16Z
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