{"id":9545,"date":"2024-02-16T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/shuji-nakamora-and-his-juliano-blue-gallium-nitride-led\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"shuji-nakamora-and-his-juliano-blue-gallium-nitride-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/shuji-nakamora-and-his-juliano-blue-gallium-nitride-led\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuji Nakamora and his (Juliano) Blue Gallium Nitride LED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AF8d72mA41M?si=mLawV3Hlj04g4716?rel-0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Lots of great stuff in this video: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; They get the charge carrier thing right: contrary to many presentations, holes don&#8217;t really move in a semiconductor. Electrons move to fill holes, making it appear that the holes are moving. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Interesting that Nakamura was so willing to defy company orders for so long. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The description of the discipline that powered his inventiveness is inspiring. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The way he was treated (badly) in Florida because he lacked a PhD is sadly illuminating. <br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212; The discussion of corporate infighting is interesting. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>We wrote about Nakamura before: <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/shuji-nakamura-inventor-of-juliano-blue.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/shuji-nakamura-inventor-of-juliano-blue.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of great stuff in this video: &#8212; They get the charge carrier thing right: contrary to many presentations, holes don&#8217;t really move in a semiconductor. Electrons move to fill holes, making it appear that the holes are moving. &#8212; Interesting that Nakamura was so willing to defy company orders for so long. &#8212; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/shuji-nakamora-and-his-juliano-blue-gallium-nitride-led\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shuji Nakamora and his (Juliano) Blue Gallium Nitride LED&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-led"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11236,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/11236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}