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Professor Nakamura, professor and the University
of California Santa Barbara and former Nichia
His breakthrough is often compared with Thomas Edison the inventor
of the light bulb winning Finland’s Millennium Technology
Prize of 1.0 million Euros donate a portion of the money to the
Light Up the World Foundation.
His breakthrough was, a blue LED coated with a phosphor or light
conversion technology emits white light. White LEDs (also known
as solid state lighting) are touted as the future of lighting around
the world.
The Light Up the World Foundation is a humanitarian organization
based in Canada, which is dedicated to bringing safe, affordable,
and efficient lighting to an estimated 2 billion people worldwide
who do not have access to adequate lighting. According to the organization,
merchant and micro-credit initiatives make it possible for the poor
to obtain products at the same cost as their present monthly lighting
fuel bills. When the foundation gives someone adequate lighting
for their home, people can have a time and place to begin a process
of educating themselves beyond their farm work jobs which often
last from sunup to sundown
According to Professor Nakamura, we have only just begun to explore
the vast number of opportunities presented by applications using
LEDs and lasers.
This is not just a source of light that makes enormous energy savings
possible, it is also an innovation that can be used in the sterilisation
of drinking water and for storing data in much more efficient ways."
Millennium Prize Foundation News Release
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