The optoelectronic technology of gallium nitride: the 2002 Benjamin Franklin medal in engineering presented to Shuji Nakamura

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 392 KB
• Volume: 340
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(03)00042-5

✦ Synopsis

Professor Nakamura has fabricated the world's first, violet/blue laser diodes and world's brightest blue and green light emitting diodes. His remarkable contributions encompassed materials growth, characterization, and device development and processing. His galliumnitride-based violet lasers improve by a factor of about three the packing density/resolution of optoelectronic storage media such as video or data storage and of printers or VCRs. His gallium nitride bright, green and blue, light emitting diodes, 10-100 times more efficient than their predecessors, enable color displays and lighting applications and are potential seeds of a new lighting industry. Professor Nakamura has opened the door to a gallium-nitride-based semiconductor industry.