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Professor Shuji Nakamura is a featured speaker at the Future of Semiconductor Forum 2024 in Riyadh
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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
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Nakamura, Shuji (photo credit: Matt Perko)
Professor Shuji Nakamura's interview: "I want my work to enhance human life and contribute to achieving world peace"

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Little-understood physics in gallium-nitride LEDs garners UCSB’s Jim Speck a prestigious Vannevar Bush award
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Innovating for Social Impact: Gallium Nitride Research in UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering
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March 4, 2025 | Nitrides Seminar - Robert Hamwey

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February 7, 2025 | Special Nitrides Seminar - Dr. Myunghee Kim

In Memoriam

Herbert Kroemer (1928-2024)

Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2000

Prize motivation: "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics"

Learn more about Professor Herbert Kroemer