The Amazing History of LED Lighting
Résumé
LED lighting is a technological revolution that has now passed into our habits in the same way as the refrigerator or the television, even if the speed at which it has been integrated, in less than a decade, may still be surprising. Yet who could have predicted, since the discovery of electroluminescence in 1907, its rise? The Light Emitting Diode is one of those improbable, curious and unexpected discoveries, fruits of chance, in the same way as the invention of aspirin, dynamite or Teflon. But the gestation of the LED will be long. Very long. More than fifty years to become a consumer product in the form of an indicator light and it will have to cross the century to become a light source in its own right. A story that begins in an unusual way, far from the light, with the detection of radio waves for telecommunications...