He invented a visible red-light diode. His 41 patents also included lasers that enabled DVD and CD players. By Sam Roberts Nick Holonyak Jr., an electrical engineer who became known as the godfather ...

Nick Holonyak Jr.'s official portrait as the UI's John Bardeen Professor of ECE and Physics. Nick Holonyak Jr. smiles as Gov. Pat Quinn proclaims October 24 "Nick Holonyak Jr. Day" in Illinois in ...

Nick Holonyak Jr., an electrical engineer who became known as the godfather of the LED lighting that illuminates flat-screen TVs and laptop computers, and who also developed lasers that enabled DVD ...

LED Inventor Nick Holonyak Reflects on Discovery 50 Years Later Celebrating 50 years since the advent of LED technology, Nick Holonyak compares his first visible LED invention to GE Lighting's latest ...

CHAMPAIGN (WSIL) -- Nick Holonyak Jr., a pioneer of LED lighting, died Sept. 18 in Urbana, Illinois. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor was 93 years old. Holonyak is credited with ...

Nick Holonyak Jr., whose development in 1962 of the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode, or LED, proved a breakthrough that now has countless practical applications, including ...

GLEN CARBON — Those 40 and older may remember spending hours playing Mattel’s hand-held football game, the one full of red light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. Those red LEDs are the invention of Nick ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Nick Holonyak Jr., a renowned innovator of illumination and longtime University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor died last month at the age of 93. Holonyak is credited with ...

Nick Holonyak Jr., a renowned researcher and professor in Engineering, died on Sept. 18 in Urbana, Ill., at age 93. Amid a supremely successful and memorable career, Holonyak is best known for his ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Put the inventor of the light-emitting diode and the maker of the world's fastest transistor together in a research laboratory and what kinds of bright ideas might surface? One ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated the laser operation of a heterojunction bipolar light-emitting transistor. The scientists describe ...

Nick Holonyak Jr., an electrical engineer who became known as the godfather of the LED lighting that illuminates flat-screen TVs and laptop computers, and who also developed lasers that enabled DVD ...