Hiroshi Amano
Books
- The Impossible Light Gallium Nitride, Corporate Betrayal, and the Invention of Blue Light · Liszt Think
For decades, the electronics industry deemed a bright blue LED physically impossible.
- The Color That Wasn't There…al rather than fundamental, that better growth methods and better doping techniques could unlock the material’s potential. With his student Hiroshi Amano, he had published results that showed progress, including a method to make strongly p-type gallium nitride by electron-beam irradiation of…
- A Chemical Company in Tokushima…was the culmination of years of thought, not a whim. The gallium nitride community was small and discouraged. Isamu Akasaki and his student Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University continued to work on the material, producing results that the field largely ignored. Theodore Moustakas at Boston Univ…
- Building the Reactor by Hand…kasaki had pursued gallium nitride since the early 1980s, maintaining a research program when most of the field had abandoned the material. Hiroshi Amano joined Akasaki’s group in 1982 as an undergraduate student and had been researching growth, characterization, and device applications of gr…