{"id":1229,"date":"2021-02-03T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/shuji-nakamura-the-inventor-of-juliano-blue-leds\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:05:44","slug":"shuji-nakamura-the-inventor-of-juliano-blue-leds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/shuji-nakamura-the-inventor-of-juliano-blue-leds\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuji Nakamura &#8212; The Inventor of Juliano Blue LEDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shuji_Nakamura.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"343\" data-original-width=\"479\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shuji_Nakamura.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>He is the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. He is the person who figured out how to make blue light LEDs through the use of an Indium Gallium Nitride semiconductor. I was reading about him this morning in &#8220;Conquering the Electron&#8221; by Derek Cheung and Eric Brach. Thanks to Nakamura, the numerals on all my frequency displays glow in a pleasing Juliano blue. Three cheers for Nakamura! <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>More on him here: <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trumpf.com\/en_US\/presse\/online-magazine\/nobel-price-winner-nakamura-wants-more-light\/\">https:\/\/www.trumpf.com\/en_US\/presse\/online-magazine\/nobel-price-winner-nakamura-wants-more-light\/<\/a><\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. He is the person who figured out how to make blue light LEDs through the use of an Indium Gallium Nitride semiconductor. I was reading about him this morning in &#8220;Conquering the Electron&#8221; by Derek Cheung and Eric Brach. Thanks to Nakamura, the numerals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/shuji-nakamura-the-inventor-of-juliano-blue-leds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shuji Nakamura &#8212; The Inventor of Juliano Blue LEDs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,75,41,212,249,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frequency-counter","category-japan","category-juliano-pete","category-laser","category-led","category-oled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}