About UC Santa Barbara UCSB's renowned faculty includes six winners of Nobel Prizes for landmark research in chemistry, physics, and economics. Nobel Laureates Shuji Nakamura Professor of Materials and of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics "For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources" Read more Professor Nakamura joined the UCSB faculty in 2000 and was appointed to the Cree Chair in the Solid State Lighting and Display Center in 2001. Known for his technological achievements with semiconducting gallium nitrides, he is widely recognized as the world pioneer in light emitters based on the wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) and its alloys with aluminum and indium. Before co
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