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Background story of the invention of efficient blue InGaN light emitting diodes


University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Nobel lecture, Decemver 8, 2014

PACS: 42.72.Bj, 81.10.−h, 85.60.Dw (all)
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2016/5/m/
Citation: Nakamura Sh "Background story of the invention of efficient blue InGaN light emitting diodes" Phys. Usp. 59 (5) (2016)

Received: 2nd, December 2015, 8th, December 2014

Оригинал: Накамура Ш «История изобретения эффективных синих светодиодов на основе InGaN» УФН 186 524–536 (2016); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2014.12.037747

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