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White LEDs to overtake the light bulb, keynoter says.
SAN FRANCISCO — White LEDs will replace incandescent bulbs in traffic lights and other applications, drawing less power and lasting over ten times longer, according to Shuji Nakamura, a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in a keynote address Monday (Dec. 11) at the International Electron Devices Meeting.
Nakamura, the inventor of the blue, green and white LED and of the blue laser, had a trailblazing career as a researcher at Nichia Chemical Industries in Tokushima, Japan before recently accepted an appointment to the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. In his keynote, Nakamura said that red, blue and green LEDs based on indium gallium nitride can outperform incandescent bulbs by reducing energy consumption by a factor of ten and enhancing lifetime ten to 50 times over the standard incandescent bulb, which typically lasts one year, Nakamura said.
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Read the full article here http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20001212S0034
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White LEDs to overtake the light bulb, keynoter says.
SAN FRANCISCO — White LEDs will replace incandescent bulbs in traffic lights and other applications, drawing less power and lasting over ten times longer, according to Shuji Nakamura, a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in a keynote address Monday (Dec. 11) at the International Electron Devices Meeting.
Nakamura, the inventor of the blue, green and white LED and of the blue laser, had a trailblazing career as a researcher at Nichia Chemical Industries in Tokushima, Japan before recently accepted an appointment to the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. In his keynote, Nakamura said that red, blue and green LEDs based on indium gallium nitride can outperform incandescent bulbs by reducing energy consumption by a factor of ten and enhancing lifetime ten to 50 times over the standard incandescent bulb, which typically lasts one year, Nakamura said.
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Read the full article here http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20001212S0034