- Nick
Holonyak Jr. (/hʌlɒnjæk/ huh-LON-yak;
November 3, 1928 –
September 18, 2022) was an
American engineer and educator. He is
noted particularly for his...
- four-layer p–n–p–n
switching was
developed by Moll, Tanenbaum, Goldey, and
Holonyak of Bell
Laboratories in 1956. The
practical demonstration of
silicon controlled...
- by the
Global Energy Prize. In 2021, Nakamura,
along with Akasaki, Nick
Holonyak, M.
George Craford, and
Russell D. Dupuis, were
awarded the
Queen Elizabeth...
- 1993
Bruce E. Deal 1987
Alfred Y. Cho 1985
Jerry M.
Woodall 1983 Nick
Holonyak, Jr. 1981
Gerald L.
Pearson 1979
Morton B.
Panish 1977
Robert N. Hall 1973...
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visible light. A
particularly important device was
demonstrated by Nick
Holonyak on
October 9, 1962,
while he was
working for
General Electric in Syracuse...
-
Inventor H. J.
Round (1907) Oleg
Losev (1927)
James R.
Biard (1961) Nick
Holonyak (1962)
First production October 1962; 62 years ago (1962-10) Pin names...
- 2005
Robert Dennard (Lemelson–MIT
Lifetime Achievement Award) 2004 Nick
Holonyak Jr. (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (John
Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical...
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Alumni and
faculty have
invented the LED and the
quantum well
laser (Nick
Holonyak, B.S. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1954), DSL (John Cioffi, B.S. 1978), JavaScript...
- gratings, and
nanostructure growth. In 2024, she
received the IEEE Nick
Holonyak Jr.
Medal for
pioneering contributions to vertical-cavity surface-emitting...
- the near-infrared band of the
spectrum at 850 nm.
Later that year, Nick
Holonyak Jr.
demonstrated the
first semiconductor laser with a
visible emission...
