Isamu Akasaki
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…fferent topic, one with better prospects for funding and publication. Yet not everyone accepted the consensus. In Nagoya, a professor named Isamu Akasaki had continued to work on gallium nitride through the 1980s, long after most of the field had moved on. Akasaki had begun his research at Ma…
- A Chemical Company in Tokushima…est to pursue gallium nitride 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. The…
- Building the Reactor by Hand…ineer had become a single system. The parallel work of Akasaki and Amano at Nagoya University provided a distant reference point. Professor Isamu Akasaki had pursued gallium nitride since the early 1980s, maintaining a research program when most of the field had abandoned the material. Hirosh…