Electrical engineers whose own Wikipedia articles credit them with a laser, optical amplifier or display-technology invention: the laser itself (Maiman, with Gould also credited and disputed as a co-inventor of the laser and the optical amplifier), the liquid crystal display (Heilmeier) and the laser printer and color management technology built on laser optics (Starkweather). Grouped together as the engineers whose own source articles place their principal work in optoelectronics, the sub-field of electrical engineering concerned with light-based and display devices, distinct from power systems, telecommunications and general semiconductor computing.
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1. Light-Emitting Diode (Wikipedia)
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Appearing as practical electronic components in 1962, the earliest LEDs emitted low-intensity infrared (IR) light.
Electrical Engineering (Wikipedia)
George H. Heilmeier (Wikipedia)
Has Member: George H. Heilmeier, lead paragraph: laser, optical amplifier or display technology invention stated in own articleView the Source Gary Starkweather (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gary Starkweather, lead paragraph: laser, optical amplifier or display technology invention stated in own articleView the Source Gordon Gould (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gordon Gould, lead paragraph: laser, optical amplifier or display technology invention stated in own articleView the Source Theodore Maiman (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Theodore Maiman, lead paragraph: laser, optical amplifier or display technology invention stated in own articleView the Source Harold E. Edgerton (National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee page)
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Pioneering research in stroboscopic photography by Harold E. Edgerton was the foundation for the development of the modern electronic speed flash.
Edmond Becquerel (Wikipedia)
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Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɛdmɔ̃ bɛkʁɛl]; 24 March 1820-11 May 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics.
Henry Joseph Round (Wikipedia)
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He was the first to report the observation of electroluminescence from a solid state diode, leading to the discovery of the light-emitting diode.
Oleg Losev (Wikipedia)
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Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (sometimes spelled Lossev or Lossew in English; Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Ло́сев; 10 May 1903-22 January 1942) was a Russian and Soviet scientist and inventor who made significant discoveries in the field of semiconductor junctions and the 6 "author's certificates" (the Soviet version of patents) for his discoveries.
James R. Biard (Wikipedia)
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Some of his more significant patents include the first infrared light-emitting diode (LED), the optical isolator, Schottky clamped logic circuits, silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor read-only memory (MOS ROM), a low bulk leakage current avalanche photodetector, and fiber-optic data links.
Nick Holonyak (Wikipedia)
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He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light.
Steven Sasson (National Inventors Hall of Fame)
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Steve Sasson invented the digital camera, changing the future of photography and transforming an industry.
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