Holonyak, now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, said he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace as they are today. But didn’t realize how many uses they would have.
"You don’t know in the beginning. You think you’re doing something important, you think it’s worth doing, but you really can’t tell what the big payoff is going to be, and when, and how. You just don’t know," he said.
The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen, 75, with the $100,000 Lemelson- MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on a new generation of "molecular sieves" that can separate molecules by size.
词汇:
semiconductor / ‚semɪkən’dʌktə(r) / n.半导体
alloy / ’ælɔɪ, ə’lɔɪ / n.合金
emit / ɪ’mɪt / v.发射,发出
diode / ’daɪəʊd / n.二极管
dim / dɪm / adj.灯光昏暗的
incandescent / ,ɪnkæn’desnt / adj.白炽的
bulb / bʌlb / n.灯泡
commonplace / ’kɒmənpleɪs / adj.普通的
molecular / mə(ʊ)’lekjʊlə(r) / adj.分子的
sieve / sɪv / n.筛
注释:
1.or:即
2.big or little:不论是大还是小