In many cities today, streets are lit by white lights, screens show vivid colors, and buildings glow with precise patterns of illumination, all depending on a small but important invention from the ...

By 2027, LED lighting will be the predominant source of artificial light available worldwide, after a permanent transition ...

Thomas Edison may have invented the lightbulb, but he never received the Nobel Prize for it. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at the University of Nagoya, and Shuji Nakamura working at Nichia Chemicals ...

Three Japanese who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on ...

LED lights have taken over modern homes and workplaces. They're energy efficient, affordable, and marketed as the future of lighting technology. Yet, despite these benefits, emerging research is ...

Researchers have designed and tested ‘human-centric’ LEDs that emit different wavelengths of blue light depending on whether it’s daytime or nighttime, reducing the disruptive effect artificial light ...

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Margaret Harris argues the case for the ...