[ArtWomb]

Blue LED inventor and Nobel Physics Laureate Shuji Nakamura was my former classmate at UF MSE back in the late 1990s. At the time a pioneering institution in MOCVD of wide-bandgap GaN. Even back then there was a sense this would be a world-changing materials discovery.

And we may be on the cusp of the next brilliant revolution in lighting displays with solid-state Graphene. The graphene / graphene-oxide boundary represents a near infinite bandgap differential. And with a controlled applied voltage, can be tuned to any color in the visible spectrum and beyond.

Combined with extensive end user testing in the Human Psychology Lab this could very well lead to a breakthrough.

In my own experience the most glaring is the 5am wake up time. When pupils are dilated. And you are checking any overnight messages from Asia or Europe. Occasionally Nite Mode will simply fail to register and you get a good blast of photons directly on a still sleepy and sensitive retinal plane. Long term repeated exposures can't be a good thing.