= Brilliant! =
=== Shuji Namamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology ===
=== Bob Johnstone Central 621.32 J73b 2007 ===
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 .born May 22, 1954 in Oku on the Sadamisaki Peninsula, relocated to Ozu 20 miles inland, father Tomokichi
 .Tokushima University, Masters, married Hiroko February 22 1978, daughter Hitomi born August
 .Nichia April 1979, 8 years spent developing compound semiconductors, epi wafers, red and infrared LEDs, all commercial failures
  . founder Nobuo Ogawa 76yo
 . MOCVD Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition, Gallium Nitride
  . or MOVPE, Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy
 .p75 indium gallium nitride quantom well:  2 nm InGaN, 10 nm GaN, repeat, then AlGaN, then P type GaN (Mg dopant)
 .p85 1968 Herbert Paul Maruska RCA Sarnoff, 1989 GaN LED by Akasaki and Amano Nagoya U,
 .p103 1990 Nobuo's nephew Eiji Ogawa commands "stop work on GaN immediately"
 .p109 two flow method
 .p112 Jul7 1991 blue LED 50% brighter than current silicon carbide LEDs
 .p114 thermal annealing removes hydrogen, P type all the way through
 .p117 St. Louis conference, mentions 1000 hour lifetime, standing ovation ([[ https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16560082/zinc-selenidebased-led-shows-long-life | ZnSe ]] less than a second)
 .p118 double hetrojunction, two layers confine a third, InGaN third breakthrough June 1992
 .p120 blocking layer, brilliant 100x SiC candela class LED
 .p121 UCSB [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kroemer | Herbert Kroemer ]], Nobel 2000, wrote [[ http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/submitRare.cgi?author=Kroemer&title=Thermal+Physics&keyword=&isbn=&order=PRICE&ordering=ASC&binding=Any+Binding&min=&max=&exclude=&nopod=on&match=Y&dispCurr=USD&timeout=20&store=Alibris&store=Abebooks&store=Amazon&store=Biblio | Thermal Physics 1980 2nd ed ]] with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kittel | Charles Kittel ]]

 .p158 Haitz's Law: 20 fold increase in light output, 10 fold cost reduction per decade