Research papers published by six 2014 Nobel Prize recipients whose accomplishments in physics and chemistry have been enabled by photonics are being made freely available in the SPIE Digital Library through the end of 2014. The innovations recognized for this year's Nobel prizes in Physics and in Chemistry utilize light-based science and technology in the development of sustainable LED lighting, smart phone and computer displays, and more accurate medical diagnostics and treatments, and have illuminated the path to new areas of research.
The new Nobel Laureates are Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura, who were awarded the Physics prize for their invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner, recipients of the Chemistry prize for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
The papers - nearly 100 in all - can be accessed at www.spie.org/nobelpapers. Publications date from the mid-1980s through this year and include papers presented at SPIE conferences and published in the Proceedings of SPIE as well as papers appearing in SPIE journals.
The SPIE Digital Library contains more than 400,000 articles from journals, proceedings, and books, with approximately 18,000 new research papers and other items added each year. Abstracts are freely searchable, and an increasing number of journal articles are published with open access.
The three Physics Laureates and Chemistry Laureates Moerner and Betzig are co-authors of papers to be presented at SPIE Photonics West 2015, to be held 7-12 February in San Francisco. In addition, Nakamura will be the featured speaker at the SPIE Fellows luncheon during the event, and Moerner will deliver a keynote talk.
