(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) Muscat- To meet researchers and explore research collaboration, Japanese physicist and inventor Hiroshi Amano visited Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) recently. Amano is the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Dr Ali bin Saud al Bemani, vice chancellor of SQU received the eminent scientist and discussed ways of enhancing collaboration between the research team of Amano and researchers at SQU, stated a press release.

Amano who specialised in semiconductor technology, was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for 'the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources'.

During the 1980s and 1990s Akasaki, Amano, and Nakamura successfully used the difficult-to-handle semi-conductor gallium nitride to create efficient blue LEDs. The invention of blue LEDs led to revolution in television, display monitor and smartphone technologies.

Amano said that currently his team is focusing on research in which ultraviolet LED lights could help sterilise polluted water. 'UV light can destroy the DNA of bacteria, viruses and microorganisms,' he said.

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