EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, 2016

EVENT: An open lecture and webcast on breakthroughs in efficient lighting and the worldwide adoption of LED light bulbs by Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and electrical & computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Nakamura will recount the unanticipated invention of the light-emitting diode in the 1990s and the rise of this leading light source. LEDs offer a dramatic reduction in the world’s need for electricity; by 2020, they could reduce energy consumption by the equivalent of nearly 60 nuclear power plants, says Nakamura.

Nakamura played a critical role in the research and early development of nitride-based blue and green LEDs. This work enabled white-light LEDs and earned him a share of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics. He has written more than 550 papers in his field, and he co-founded SORAA, a startup that engineers and produces advanced LED light bulbs.

PLACE: Michigan League Ballroom, 911 North University Ave., Ann Arbor

SPONSORS: Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MconneX

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