Full Text of HR1102 097th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to celebrate the 50th anniversary | 4 | | of the light-emitting diode (LED) and honor the inventor of the | 5 | | LED, Nick Holonyak Jr.; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, LED technology is used in literally every aspect | 7 | | of our lives, including the aviation, transportation and safety | 8 | | (traffic lights), theatre, photography, architecture, and | 9 | | aerospace industries; LEDs are also used in countless consumer | 10 | | electronics, including flashlights, mobile phones, | 11 | | automobiles, and light bulbs; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, LEDs produce more lumens per watt than both | 13 | | incandescent and halogen lighting sources, making them more | 14 | | environmentally-friendly and cost-effective; LED's also have | 15 | | more than 10 times the life span of an incandescent bulb, | 16 | | making them perfectly suited for use in automotive dashboards, | 17 | | taillights, and headlights, as well as in traffic signals and | 18 | | consumer electronics; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Nick Holonyak Jr. was born, raised, and educated | 20 | | in Illinois; he earned his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. | 21 | | degrees in electrical engineering from the University of | 22 | | Illinois; he was also the first graduate student of John |
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| 1 | | Bardeen, the only 2-time recipient of the Nobel Prize in | 2 | | Physics; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Nick Holonyak Jr. began his career at Bell | 4 | | Telephone Labs, where he helped develop silicon-diffused | 5 | | transistor technology; several years later, while working at | 6 | | General Electric, he invented the first practical | 7 | | light-emitting diode and the first semiconductor laser to | 8 | | operate in the visible spectrum; he also developed the first | 9 | | electronic devices in III-V compound semiconductor alloys and | 10 | | the basic silicon device used in household light-dimmer | 11 | | switches; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Nick Holonyak Jr. joined the faculty of the | 13 | | University of Illinois in 1963; upon his arrival at the | 14 | | University of Illinois, he and his students developed the first | 15 | | quantum-well laser, a practical laser used for fiber-optic | 16 | | communications, compact disc players, medical diagnosis, | 17 | | surgery, ophthalmology, and many other applications; in the | 18 | | early 1980s, his group introduced impurity-induced layer | 19 | | disordering, which converts layers of a semiconductor | 20 | | structure into an alloy with important electronic properties; | 21 | | this discovery solved the problem of a laser's low reliability | 22 | | and paved the way for the reliable and durable lasers now used | 23 | | in DVD players and other optical storage equipment; during the | 24 | | last decade, his group invented a process that enables the |
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| 1 | | formation of high-quality oxide layers on any aluminum-bearing | 2 | | III-V compound semiconductor; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Nick Holonyak Jr. is currently researching | 4 | | transistor lasers; this research, currently in the early stages | 5 | | of development, could dramatically improve the speed and | 6 | | availability of electronic communications; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, On October 24-25, 2012, the University of Illinois | 8 | | will hold a symposium on its Urbana campus to celebrate the | 9 | | invention of the LED and honor its inventor; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Nick Holonyak Jr. serves as a model of hard work, | 11 | | integrity, and dedication for the people of the State of | 12 | | Illinois; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 | | we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the LED, honor and thank | 16 | | Nick Holonyak Jr. for creating this important technology, and | 17 | | wish Mr. Holonyak continued success and happiness in his future | 18 | | endeavors; and be it further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to Nick Holonyak Jr. and the University of Illinois | 21 | | as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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