University of California, Santa Barbara
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 Commercial Dawn…blue LED. Lawsuits had not yet been filed. Disputes over compensation had not yet become public. The break that would send Nakamura to the University of California, Santa Barbara, had not yet occurred. But foundation for those events was being laid. Revenue stream from the blue LED was real and growing. Economic valu…
- The Nobel Citation Takes Shape…, each one contributing a paragraph. Nakamura watched this process from a distance. He had left Nichia in 1999, accepting a position at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The move had multiple causes. Frustration with his compensation. Frustration with his recognition. Frustration with a company that had pro…
- The Color White…he specification sheet had been clear about technical targets. It had been silent about rewards. Nakamura began to think about leaving. The University of California, Santa Barbara, had approached him with an offer: a faculty position, a research laboratory, the freedom to pursue his own directions. The contrast with h…