
solid state lighting
LED Pioneers Win 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
For making low-cost, efficient lighting possible, LED pioneers and Nobel laureates Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura were awarded the world’s most prestigious engineering prize.

Cheaper OLED Displays Without Precious Metals
Researchers have come up with a more cost-effective method of producing highly efficient organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, commonly used in HD TVs.