The Volkswagen Group has been in a bad way before. It had rested on the success of the "Beetle" for far too long. With the first generation of the VW Golf and its notchback variant, the Jetta, the ...

However, mass production was what Nakamura's employer Nichia was interested in. The aluminum nitride trick discovered by Akasaki and Amano could not be consistently produced – it had to work without ...