Shuji Nakamura

Shuji Nakamura Shuji Nakamura
Millennium Technology Prize Recipient
NAE
Professor, Materials
Director of Solid State Lighting & Display Center
893-5552
shuji@engineering.ucsb.edu

Widely recognized as pioneer in light emitters based on wide-bandgap semiconductors, Nakamura continues to focus on development of GaN thin film technology. Additional activities are directed towards growth of bulk GaN crystals with low defect density, for use as substrates in GaN-based devices such as LEDs, high brightness lasers and high-frequency, high-power transistors.

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