This engineer literally lit up the world — and now wants to power it

Shuji Nakamura already transformed the world once. His invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) changed everything ...
ExtremeTech

Flashing LEDs could create a mesh network for self-driving cars

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Hackaday

PeLEDs: Using Perovskites To Create LEDs Which Also Sense Light

With both of the dominant display technologies today – LCD and OLED – being far from perfect, there is still plenty of room in the market for the Next Big Thing. One of the technologies being worked ...
Nanowerk

Molecular antennas power insulating nanoparticles to create ultra-pure infrared LEDs

A new technique uses 'molecular antennas' to funnel electrical energy into insulating nanoparticles, creating a new class of ultra-pure near-infrared LEDs for medical diagnostics, optical ...
Phys.org

Ultra-bright deep-blue LEDs shine with eco-friendly copper-iodide hybrid material

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has developed an eco-friendly, very stable, ultra-bright material and used it to generate deep-blue light (emission at ~450 nm) in a light-emitting diode (LED), an ...
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Iron and blue LEDs create natural molecules without pricey chiral parts

A team at Nagoya University has built an iron-based photocatalyst that, when activated by blue LED light, can help assemble complex natural molecules while reducing the amount of expensive chiral ...