Shuji Nakamura

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California NanoSystems Institute CNSI-UCSB, California NanoSystems Institute
UCSB Professor, Materials, UCSB

Contact Information:

Work Email Address:

shuji@engineering.ucsb.edu


Website:

http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/Announce/nakamura.html

Fax Number:

(805) 893-8983

Work Phone Number:

(805) 893-5552

Mailing Address:

UCSB
Materials Department
Santa Barbara, CA 93106


Detailed Biography:

Santa Barbara, Calif. -- Shuji Nakamura--the creator of blue, green and white LEDs and the blue laser--has accepted an appointment to the faculty of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Nakamura, known for his technological wizardry with semiconducting gallium nitrides, comes to the Santa Barbara faculty from Nichia Chemical Industries in Tokushima, Japan, where he has conducted his research since 1979 and headed the Department of Research & Development since 1993.

Nakamura, who is 45-years-old, grew up on the southern island of Shikoku, Japan, and received his degrees from the University of Tokushima, Japan.

He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including most recently the 1994 and 1997 Japan Society of Applied Physics awards, the Nikkei 1995 Best Products and 1996 Excellent Products awards, the 1996 Society of Information Display Special Recognition Award, the 1996 IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society Engineering Achievement Award, the 1996 Nishina Memorial Award, the 1997 Ohkochi Grand Technology Prize, the 1997 Materials Research Society Medal, and the 1998 IEEE Jack A. Morton Award.

The author of 150 scientific papers and two books, Nakamura holds 80 Japanese and ten U.S. patents.

Publications:

A selected list of publications:

S. Nakamura.   "Blue light emitting laser diodes", Thin Solid Films, 1999; 343-344 : 345-349.
S. Nakamura.   "InGaN-based blue light-emitting diodes and laser diodes", J. Cryst. Growth , 1999; 201/202 : 290-295.
S. Nakamura.   "InGaN/GaN/AlGaN-based laser diodes grown on free-standing GaN substrates", Materials Science and Engineering, 1999; B59: 370-375.
S. Nakamura.   "Present status of InGaN-based UV/blue/green LEDs and laser diodes", Advances in Solid State Physics , 1999; 38: 1-14.
S. Nakamura, M. Senoh, S. Nagahama, T. Matsushita, H. Kiyoku, Y. Sugimoto, T. Kozaki, H. Umemoto, M. Sano, and T. Mukai.   "Violet InGaN/GaN/AlGaN-based laser diodes operable at 50C with a fundamental transverse", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. , 1999; 38(N3A ): L226-L229.

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