Anan, Japan (December 1956; 67 years ago (1956-12))
Founder
Nobuo Ogawa
Headquarters
Anan, Tokushima 774-8601, Japan
Key people
Hiroyoshi Ogawa (President)
Products
Light-emitting diodes
Laser diodes
Fine chemicals
Battery materials
Magnetic materials
Number of employees
9,219 (as of December, 2022)
Website
www.nichia.co.jp/en/
Footnotes / references [1][2]
Japanese manufacturing company
Nichia Corporation (日亜化学工業株式会社, Nichia Kagaku Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese chemical engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Anan, Japan with global subsidiaries. It specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of phosphors, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes, battery materials, and calcium chloride.[3]
The Nichia Corporation comprises two divisions — Division 1, responsible for phosphors and other chemicals, and Division 2, responsible for LEDs. In the field of phosphors the company has 50% of the Japanese market and 25% of the world market.[1][4]
Nichia designs, manufactures, and markets LEDs for display, LCD backlighting, automotive and general lighting applications with the many different leds across the entire visible spectrum. Nichia’s invention and development of white LEDs have spanned several accomplishments throughout the history of the company.
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^Shuji Nakamura; Stephen Pearton; Gerhard Fasol (April 17, 2013). The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-3-662-04156-7.
Nichia Corporation (日亜化学工業株式会社, Nichia Kagaku Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese chemical engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Anan...
years later, after which he joined the Nichia Corporation, also based in Tokushima. It was while working for Nichia that Nakamura invented the method for...
synthetic diamonds. In 1992, Japanese inventor Shuji Nakamura, while working at Nichia Chemicals, invented the first blue semiconductor LED using an InGaN active...
excessively high power consumption. It was only when Shuji Nakamura, then at Nichia Chemical, announced the development of the blue (and later green) LED based...
an agreement to license AlInGaP technology to Epistar. Epistar Cree Inc. Nichia "Philips takes control of LED maker Lumileds". LEDs Magazine. 15 August...
properties of GaN LEDs & Parallel connections" (PDF). Application Note. Nichia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2007-08-13. Borden...
The first high-brightness blue LED was demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation in 1994. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Nakamura were later...
wavelength-tunable narrow-linewidth radiation, or ultrashort laser pulses. In 2012, Nichia and OSRAM developed and manufactured commercial high-power green laser diodes...
1993, high-brightness blue LEDs were demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation. In parallel, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University...
world's second largest manufacturer of optoelectronic semiconductors after Nichia and followed in third place by Cree Inc. The company was founded in 1999...
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