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Blue LEDs were deemed a huge breakthrough at the time; they enabled full-colour LED displays (think large panels viewed from a distance) by adding the long-miss
by btbuildem 3y ago
Blue LEDs were deemed a huge breakthrough at the time; they enabled full-colour LED displays (think large panels viewed from a distance) by adding the long-missing B in the RGB.
- wlonkly 3y agoEnough of a breakthrough to be worthy of a Nobel prize, even: https://medium.com/predict/why-blue-led-earned-nobel-prize-if-reds-and-greens-already-existed-for-decades-d03e31a6fd8f https://medium.com/predict/why-blue-led-earned-nobel-prize-i...
- analog31 3y agoIndeed, and they are also the basis of single element white LEDs, which are a blue led covered by a white phosphor. The inventor of the bright blue led worked for a chemical company that made phosphors, and invented the white one as well.
- cryptonector 3y agoThey also enabled bueray DVDs.