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Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd

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1

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1996

semiconductorsconsumer_electronicsenergy

Key Inventors

Shuji Nakamura1Takao Yamada1Masayuki Senoh1Motokazu Yamada1Kanji Bando1

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1 patents, in 1996

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19961997

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US 5563422·1996

How Nichia Created the First Practical Blue LED Electrodes

A foundational patent describing the specific metal contacts needed to make gallium nitride LEDs efficient and commercially viable.

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