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# Why it was almost impossible to make the blue LED

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([YouTube Direktlink](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M)) > The blue LED was supposed to be impossible – until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

Interessante, halbstündige Dokumentation über die Entstehung der blauen LED, die benötigt wurde, um in Kombination mit Rot und Grün alle anderen Farben darzustellen, und ihren Erfinder [Shuji Nakamura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura), der 1993 nach jahrelanger Arbeit endlich den Durchbruch erlangte.