Blue in the face — nine years on

• Book ID: 104368684
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 146 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(96)80147-5

✦ Synopsis

We have many treats in store for you in the bumper inaugral issue for the New Year. What will possibly be seen as a landmark in the development of optoelectronic devices was the recent announcement of the world's first RT semiconductor blue laser diode. Articles on the topical "blue emitters" form the centrepiece of this issue's coverage of Ill-Vs. Incidentally, Nichia's timing proved ideal for the launch of the new MRS journal; given its exclusively electronic format, it is potentially as revolutionary as the new device.

W ith all the excitement triggered by the III-V GaN-based blue lasers it re-al~lrms my confidence in our title "III-Vs RevieW'. Whichever way you look at it, the III-Vs -GaAs, InP, GaN, etc --are the preeminent semiconductor materials after silicon. Ironically, GaN had been "written off" as being non-ideal for blue emitting devices and most pundits had their money on the II-VIs. The Nichia work would seem to have reversed this trend and many an opto device manufacturer will be rethinking strategy.