Overview

A revolution in the way we use artificial lighting is underway, one that is every bit as sweeping and significant as Edison's invention of the light bulb. The technology of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is ready for widespread implementation. Its impacts will include a reduction in energy consumption for electric lighting by up to 80 percent. Brilliant! tells the story of Shuji Nakamura, a gifted Japanese engineer who came out of nowhere to stun the world with his announcement that he had created the last piece in the puzzle needed for manufacturing solid-state white lights. The invention of this holy-grail product, which promises to make Edison's light bulb obsolete, had eluded the best minds at the top electronic firms for twenty-five years. Until his startling announcement, Nakamura had not even been on the radar screen of most industry observers.

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9781591024620

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Part biography, part history, and part prediction of future lighting needs and issues, Brilliant! serves as an insight into the harnessing of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as the next great evolution in illumination...the book is strong in understanding the importance of Nakamura's efforts to resolve a lighting dilemma and make a major impact in improving future environmental conditions. Appropriate for everyone...Highly recommended. -- Choice, November 2007 featuring Forthcoming Reference Titles

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Bob Johnstone (Melbourne, Australia) is the author of We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age and Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers, and the Transformation of Learning. He has also contributed numerous articles on technology to Forbes, Nature, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, Wired, and the Far Eastern Economic Review.

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