Nagoya University
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…ost of the field had moved on. Akasaki had begun his research at Matsushita, one of Japan’s largest electronics companies, before moving to Nagoya University. He believed that gallium nitride’s problems were technical rather than fundamental, that better growth methods and better doping technique…
- A Chemical Company in Tokushima…on 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 University pursued a para…
- Building the Reactor by Hand…reactor. No one else could interpret results. Equipment and engineer 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 progr…