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Who was appointed to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force following Mosley's resignation?
General Norton A. Schwartz
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What newspaper reported on Schwartz's dismantlement of the US Air Force's class system?
The Washington Post
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What author wrote about the US Air Force egalitarian culture?
Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
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How does the US Air Force differ from other branches of the military?
an organization in which mostly its officers fought
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How have the enlisted forces of the US Air Force been seen?
primarily a rear echelon support force
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What is the reason for the shortage of UAV operators in the US Air Force?
Cultural and career issues
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During what war the the USAF establish a new career field for piloting UAVs and drones?
Iraq War
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Why did the USAF change its training methods on UAVs in 2014?
large aircraft losses in training
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What branch of the US Military does a cultural divide prevent the US Air Force from adopting their drone protocols?
US Army
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Where did some of the US Air Force traditions come from?
Royal Air Force
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What traditions does the US Air Force have?
"Friday Name Tags" in flying units
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What organization did the US Air Force adopt "Challenge Coins" from?
U.S. Army
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What does the roof stomp tradition signify in the US Air Force?
welcome a new commander or to commemorate another event, such as a retirement
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What was a recent US Air Force recruiting slogan?
"No One Comes Close"
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What does the USAF slogan Uno Ab Alto mean?
"One From On High"
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What is the most recent US Air Force recruitment slogan in October 2010?
"Aim high" followed with the response, "Fly-Fight-Win"
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Where can individual each USAF wing, group or squadrons individual motto be found?
wing, group, or squadron websites
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What type of atmosphere can LED lighting be used?
environmental
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What is an advantage to using LED lighting over the normal light sources?
longer lifetime
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What does LED stand for?
Light-emitting diodes
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Why are some people hesitant to use LED lighting?
more expensive
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What is a popular use for LED lighting?
traffic signals
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LED lighting is the end result of what phenomenon?
Electroluminescence
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When was Electroluminescence discovered?
1907
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What was the nationality of the man who discovered Electroluminescence?
British
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What type of detector did H.J. Round use to help him in his discovery?
cat's-whisker
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Who is the Soviet man that created the first LED?
Oleg Losev
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What year was it discovered that early LED instruments could be used for non-radio communication?
1957
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Who discovered non-radio uses for early LED devices?
Kroemer Braunstein
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The current in non-radio communication had to go through what type of component?
a GaAs diode
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What other component was needed to detect the first current of a non-radio signal?
a PbS diode
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What final device was needed to hear the signal from the initial GaAs diode?
audio amplifier
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In what state what near-infrared light emission discovered?
Texas
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What type of diode was used to help discover near-infrared light emission?
tunnel
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In what year was the patent filed for the Semiconductor Radiant Diode?
1962
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What was the first practical LED?
GaAs infrared (IR) light-emitting diode
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The two inventors of the first practical diode were employed by what famous company?
Texas Instruments (TI)
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At what global company was the first visible-spectrum LED developed?
General Electric Company
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What GE employee developed the visible-spectrum LED?
Nick Holonyak, Jr.
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What color is associated with the visible-spectrum LED?
red
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What color LED was later created in 1972?
yellow
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What graduate student of Holonyak created the yellow LED?
M. George Craford
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What was the first commercial uses of LEDs?
replacements for incandescent and neon indicator lamps
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How much did the early LEDs cost?
US$200 per unit
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What was one use of early LED light in products?
calculators
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What modern company introduced LEDs in 1968?
Hewlett Packard (HP)
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In what decade were production costs greatly reduced for LEDs to enable successful commercial uses?
1970s
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What color LED was demonstrated in 1994?
blue
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Who demonstrated the first blue LED?
Shuji Nakamura
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What did Nakamura, Akasaki, and Amano receive for their work?
2014 Nobel prize in physics
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Who investigated the efficiency of high-brightness LED at Cardiff University in 1995?
Alberto Barbieri
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What substance did Barbieri use in his work with high-brightness LED?
indium tin oxide
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What LED quickly followed the blue LEDs?
white
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What does the YAG phosphor coating produce?
yellow light
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What converts absorbed light energy into an electric current?
P-N junction
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What is the phenomenon where a P-N junction emits light when an electrical current is applied to it?
electroluminescence
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Where are the free electrons located in the production of electroluminescence?
the conduction band
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Whose energy levels are lower than the electrons in the electroluminescence process?
holes existing in the P-region
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Why is some energy in the electroluminescence process emitted as heat and light?
to recombine the electrons and the holes
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In what year was a new type of blue LED produced?
2003
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Who demonstrated in 2003 the new type of blue LED?
Cree
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How much more efficient as standard incandescents was the white LED commercially available in 2003?
four times
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What is the typical operating current for high-power LEDs?
350 mA
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What is a symptom of LED failure?
loss of efficiency
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What is rare in LED lighting?
Sudden failures
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What was notable in early red LEDs?
their short service life
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What could cause early light-output degradation in LEDs?
higher junction temperatures
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What is a classification used in LED lighting to describe how much usefulness it will receive?
L70 or L50
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LED efficacy is inversely proportional to what?
operating temperature
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Where is LED lighting very well suited?
supermarket freezer
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LEDs produce less waste heat than what other device?
incandescent lamps
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What is LED lighting more susceptible to than incandescent light?
frost
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The first blue-violet LED was developed at what University?
Stanford
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When was the first blue-violet LED developed?
1972
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What students developed the first blue-violet LED?
Herb Maruska and Wally Rhines
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What substance helped demonstrate the first blue electroluminescence?
zinc-doped gallium nitride
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In what decade were breakthroughs made that brought in the modern era of GaN-based optoelectronic devices?
1980s
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Who first patented a method to produce high-brightness blue LEDs?
Shuji Nakamura
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Who first invented a method to produce high-brightness blue LEDs?
Dr. Moustakas
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What technology was made possible by high-power blue light sources?
BlueRay
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What is one modern gadget that benefits from high-power blue LED lighting?
tablets
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What Nobel Prize did Nakamura, Amano, and Akasaki receive in 2014?
Physics
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What award did Nakamura receive in 2006 for his invention?
Millennium Technology Prize
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How many companies did a judge say infringed on Dr. Moustakas's prior blue light patent in 2015?
three
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What was the fine given to the three companies?
not less than 13 million USD
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What are cladding layers?
active region consisting of one or more InGaN quantum wells sandwiched between thicker layers of GaN
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How can light emission be varied from violet to amber?
By varying the relative In/Ga fraction in the InGaN quantum wells
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What does AlGaN stand for?
Aluminium gallium nitride
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What LEDs are more efficient when produced from the InGaN/GaN systems than without?
Green
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What substance does nitrides contain?
aluminium
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What sort of LEDs are becoming more available on the market?
Ultraviolet
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What is the range of wavelengths for cheap UV LEDs?
375–395 nm
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Shorter wavelength diodes provide wavelengths as low as what?
240 nm
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What UV wavelengths are found in sterilization devices?
250–270 nm
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What colors are used to form white light?
red, green, and blue
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What is the method called that mixes red, green, and blue colors to form white light?
multi-color white LEDs
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What does the multi-color white LED method need to produce the end result?
electronic circuits
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What is another name to reference the multi-color white LED method?
RGB LEDs
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What is one type of multi-color white LED?
tetrachromatic
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What is a factor that may be different in the various types of multi-color white LEDs?
luminous efficacy
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