Green Options - LEDs Part 2

Green Options is NBR's continuing series examining the latest eco-friendly advancements and their economic impact. In this segment, Lucy Craft explains how a remote region of Japan discovered the key necessary to make LEDs a commerically viable product.



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External Links/Articles*

• Japan National Tourist Organization (JNTO)
  JNTO promotes travel to Japan. This links to information about the City of Tokushima on Japan's Island of Shikoku. The island is home to Japan's LED industry.
• Nichia Corporation
  Nichia is a Japanese firm that manufactures and supplies LEDs. As Lucy Craft explains in Part 2 of her LED series, Nichia developed the blue diode.
• Science Watch
  Science Watch is a publication of Thomson Reuters' Scientific division. This links to an interview in the January/February 2000 edition of Science Watch titled, "Nichia's Shuji Nakamura: Dream of the Blue Laser Diode." In the interview, Shuji Nakamura explains how he developed the key diode while working at Nichia Corporation.

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