Nobel Lecture: Background story of the invention of efficient blue InGaN light emitting diodes

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Nakamura, Shuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84943747603     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.87.1139     Document Type: Article

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