ANN ARBOR – Physicist Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and electrical & computer engineering at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will discuss the role in played in developing nitride-based blue and green LEDs. His work enabled white-light LEDs and earned him a share of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics.
LEDs offer a dramatic reduction in the world’s need for electricity; by 2020, they could reduce energy consumption by the equivalent of nearly 60 nuclear power plants, says Nakamura. He has written more than 550 papers in his field, and he co-founded SORAA, a startup that engineers and produces advanced LED light bulbs.
PLACE: Michigan League Ballroom, 911 North University Ave., Ann Arbor
SPONSORS: Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MconneX
