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2021 QEPrize Winners: LED Lighting
Create the Future
English - February 09, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 59.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience engineering engineers design inventions science future space building architechture stem Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this special episode of Create the Future we speak to the winners of the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the creators of LED lighting.
Solid state lighting technology has changed how we illuminate our world. It can be found everywhere from digital displays and computer screens to handheld laser pointers, automobile headlights and traffic lights. Today’s high-performance LEDs are used in efficient solid state lighting products across the world and are contributing to the sustainable development of world economies by reducing energy consumption.
Hear Nick Holonyak Jr, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, and Shuji Nakamura recount tales from the 60-year LED lighting development story, reflect on their individual contributions (and that of fellow winner Isamu Akasaki), and discuss the truly remarkable engineering behind LEDs.
To learn more about the winners and the history of LED lighting, visit: https://qeprize.org/winners/led-lighting
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