LED lights are one of the most common type of lights in our lives now, but the creation of specifically blue LEDs proved to ...

Blue LED lighting — the Nobelists' invention — was the missing ingredient that allowed the creation of LED lamps.) Less familiar is the illumination revolution LED bulbs have helped set off in ...

Why blue in particular? Well, blue was the last — and most difficult — advance required to create white LED light. And with white LED light, companies are able to create smartphone and ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to three physicists responsible for creating the blue LED. If you're ever come across an LED-- which is highly ...

A trio of scientists, two from Japan and one from the U.S., will share the Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which led to a new, environmentally ...

Here Margaret Harris argues the case for the 2014 prize for inventing the blue LED A new hue: blue LEDs are lighting the 21st century. (Courtesy: iStock/damarco-media) Of all the physics Nobel prizes ...