Blue LED inventor wins Finland Millennium Technology Prize

Finland technology foundation announced this year's "Millennium Technology Prize awarded a blue light emitting diode inventor Nakamura Shuji, Finland Technology Foundation believes that the invention of Nakamura Shuji opened up a new era of development in the field of light emitting diode. His invention makes it possible to produce blue light emitting diodes with large scale industrialization and has a positive effect on improving and improving the quality of life of human beings. So he will receive 1 million euros in prize money.

Nakamura Shuji was originally a technician from Japan Nichia corporation. In 1990, he developed a high brightness blue light-emitting diode. At that time, the world has developed a red and green light-emitting diodes, but because there is no development of blue light-emitting diodes, electronic screen in the field of color can not be fully displayed. Therefore, the blue light-emitting diode is considered to be the world's most difficult and most popular R & D projects. To obtain a master's degree in electronic engineering professional Nakamura Shuji inventive, fill the gap, the more abundant computer, mobile phone, ultra-thin TV screen color, the original service life is greatly prolonged, the power consumption can be reduced by 90%.

According to reports, Professor Nakamura Shuji was born in 1954 in Japan, since 2000, served at the University of California, San Barbara. This is the second award of the Finland Technology Award Foundation, the Millennium Technology Award, the award ceremony will be held in Finland, capital of the capital in September 8th this year.

Millennium Technology Awards

Millennium Technology Prize is awarded to the world the highest amount of bonus prize, awarded every two years for make significant achievements in the field of scientific research or inventions or personal research group. The Finland science and Technology Award Foundation is the standard of scientific research and invention should be able to directly improve and improve the quality of human life, a positive role in the sustainable development of the economy. The first millennium technology award in 2004 awarded to the World Wide Web inventor, British scientist Tim - Professor Lee - Berners