Together with Profs. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano from Meijo University and Nagoya University, Dr. Shuji Nakamura (Professor of University of California, Santa Barbara)
was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize (Physics),
for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes…”
Dr. Nakamura graduated from Univ. of Tokushima (Bachelor 1977, Master 1979, Doctor 1994). The key technology for blue LED was discovered in Nichia Corporation (Tokushima) where he joined this company in 1979. He left Nichia in 1999 to joined University of California.
平成22年度から平成25年度まで客員教授、平成26年度からは本学の経営に関する重要事項を審議する経営協議会委員に就任しております。He is a member of our university (TUAT)’s Administrative Councilors: A photograph in this website was taken during his lecture at our campus. Link from: http://www.tuat.ac.jp/news/20141007190955/index.html
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GAN GROWTH USING GAN BUFFER LAYER, By:NAKAMURA, S (NAKAMURA, S)
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 2-LETTERS
Volume: 30, Issue: 10A, Pages: L1705-L1707, Published: OCT 1 1991
High-quality gallium nitride (GaN) film was obtained for the first time using a GaN buffer layer on a sapphire substrate. An optically flat and smooth surface was obtained over a two-inch sapphire substrate. Hall measurement was performed on GaN films grown with a GaN buffer layer as a function of the thickness of the GaN buffer layer. For the GaN film grown with a 200 angstrom-GaN buffer layer, the carrier concentration and Hall mobility were 4 x 10(16)/cm3 and 600 cm2/V.s, respectively, at room temperature. The values became 8 x 10(15)/cm3 and 1500 cm2/V.s at 77 K, respectively. These values of Hall mobility are the highest ever reported for GaN films. The Hall measurement shows that the optimum thickness of the GaN buffer layer is around 200 angstrom.
Publisher: JAPAN J APPLIED PHYSICS
Times Cited: 228
NOVEL METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR-DEPOSITION SYSTEM FOR GAN GROWTH, By: NAKAMURA, S (NAKAMURA, S); HARADA, Y (HARADA, Y); SENO, M (SENO, M)
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume: 58, Issue: 18 Pages: 2021-2023, Published: MAY 6 1991
A novel metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system, which has two different flows, has been developed. One flow carries a reactant gas parallel to the substrate, and the other an inactive gas perpendicular to the substrate for the purpose of changing the direction of the reactant gas flow. The growth of a GaN film was attempted using this system, and a high quality, uniform film was obtained over a 2 in. sapphire substrate. The carrier concentration and Hall mobility are 1 x 10(18)/cm3 and 200 cm2/V s, respectively, which are the highest for GaN films grown directly on a sapphire substrate by the MOCVD method.
Publisher: AMER INST PHYSICS
Dr. Nakamura’s first and second published papers are:
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1. X-RAY LUMINESCENCE OF YTTRIUM STRONTIUM TANTALATE PHOSPHORS
By: ROYCE, MR; NAKAMURA, S; SHINOMIYA, G; et al.
JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY Volume: 135 Issue: 8 Pages: C389-C389 Published: AUG 1988
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2. HIGH-POWER AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY P-GAALAS/N-GAAS-SI SINGLE-HETEROSTRUCTURE INFRARED EMITTING DIODES
By: NAKAMURA, S; TAKAGI, H
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS SHORT NOTES & REVIEW PAPERS Volume: 29 Issue: 12 Pages: 2694-2697 Published: DEC 1990
"Particles & Transfer" Lab. 