John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is pleased to learn that The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.

Professors Isamu Akasaki, of Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan, Hiroshi Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan, and Shuji Nakamura, of University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, were awarded the Nobel Prize “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. All three laureates are Wiley authors having published well over 150 papers in Wiley’s Physica Status Solidi family of journals as well as other Wiley titles. Combined, the 2014 Nobel laureates have accumulated more than 1,400 total citations of their Wiley-published articles.

Shuji Nakamura was publishing with Wiley as early as 1996 with an article in Advanced Materials, more recently his letter in physica status solidi (RRL)attracted more than 100 citations. Hiroshi Amano was a guest editor on three issues of physica status solidi (c), his most recent edition published in 2014. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura also authored chapters in Nitrides with Nonpolar Surfaces: Growth, Properties, and Devices (Wiley-VCH, 2008).

To celebrate the achievements of all three laureates, Wiley made the following selection of content free to access until the end of 2014.

Contributions by Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano:

• From physica status solidi (b): Control of dislocations and stress in AlGaN on sapphire using a low temperature interlayer
• From physica status solidi (a): High-efficiency GaN/Al_xGa_1-xN multi-quantum-well light emitter grown on low-dislocation density Al_xGa_1-xN
• A book chapter from Nitrides with Nonpolar Surfaces: Growth, Properties, and Devices

Contributions by Shuji Nakamura:

• From physica status solidi (b): Progress in the growth of nonpolar gallium nitride
• From physica status solidi (RRL): Improved electroluminescence on nonpolar m-plane InGaN/GaN quantum wells LEDs that attracted more than 100 citations
• From Advanced Materials, an article published in 1996: InGaN-based blue/green LEDs and laser diodes
• A book chapter from Nitrides with Nonpolar Surfaces: Growth, Properties, and Devices

Hiroshi Amano’s three issues of physica status solidi (c) as guest editor:

• Special Issue: 5th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-5)
• Special Issue: 3rd International Symposium on Growth of Group III-Nitrides (ISGN 3)
• Special Issue: 10th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-10)

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