Jodi Summers = Green Real Estate ? LIGHT ON THE LED

November 17, 2012 on 6:36 pm | In Curious, Solutions, Uncategorized | No Comments

by Jodi Summers

Didja know, LED stands for ?light emitting diode.? Nick Holonyak, Jr. (born November 3, 1928, in Zeigler, Illinois) invented the first practically useful visible LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York. He has been called ?the father of the light-emitting diode?.

Holonyak was John Bardeen?s first Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his undergraduate, master?s, and Ph.D. (1954) from the same university. He created the first visible semiconductor lasers in 1960. In 1963, he again joined Dr. Bardeen, the co-inventor of the transistor, at the University of Illinois and worked on quantum wells and quantum-well lasers.

In addition to introducing the III-V alloy LED, Holonyak holds 41 patents. His other inventions include the red-light semiconductor laser, usually called the laser diode (used in CD and DVD players and cell phones) and the shorted emitter p-n-p-n switch (used in light dimmers and power tools). He helped create the first light dimmer while at GE..

He is a John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he has been since 1963.

He received a $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize for his work in 2004, the single largest cash prize for invention.

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