Remembering the father of LED lighting
Nick Holonyak, Jr., father to LED lighting, died at the age of 93 in Urbana, Illinois. He developed the first red-emitting LED light, as well as the lights that illuminate computers and screens. He held over 40 patents; DVDs, CDs, and barcode scanners can all trace their successful operation to his work.
He was one of the first to predict that LEDs would overtake incandescent lighting, and at this point, they have.
He once said in an interview, “I didn’t take a sabbatical because I’m living in the playground where I go to play — to play with an idea and see if I can make something.”
Semiconductors have been in the news, mainly because there aren’t enough of them. They’ve been one of the major victims of the original supply chain shortage, and if you recall, they’re also one of the reasons new cars are harder to come by, as modern cars use many semiconductors. And it doesn’t help that it’s not an easy industry to break into; building a factory starts in the billions.
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