Nichia Corporation
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- 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 Commercial Dawn…ct during the years of research, now became concrete. Patents filed in 1993 and 1994 bore Nakamura’s name as inventor, but the assignee was Nichia Corporation. Inventions belonged to the company. Revenue belonged to the company. Credit, in the corporate accounting, belonged to the organization tha…
- The Citation’s Disputed AuthorsIn a bonus ledger maintained by Nichia Corporation, the entry for fiscal year 1999 recorded a payment of ¥20, 000 to Shuji Nakamura for the filing of a patent. The immense value created by t…
- The Price of a Nobel Idea…ad awarded for employee compensation. It dwarfed the ¥2 billion Nakamura had requested in his filing. It represented roughly one-quarter of Nichia Corporation’s annual revenues from the very technology his work had made possible. The judge had not merely granted compensation. He had made a stateme…