Far-Ultraviolet LED Efficiently Kills Bacteria and Viruses Without Harming People - SciTechDaily

Far-Ultraviolet LED Efficiently Kills Bacteria and Viruses Without Harming People - SciTechDaily
A powerful LED can efficiently disinfect surfaces while remaining safe for people. RIKEN physicists have engineered a highly efficient LED that is deadly to microbes and viruses but safe for humans. One day it could help countries emerge from the shadows of p…
To work through this issue, three physicists at RIKEN Quantum Optodevice Laboratory, Masafumi Jo, Yuri Itokazu, and Hideki Hirayama, created an LED with a more complex design. They sandwiched togethe… [+1173 chars] Read More



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