gallium nitride

English

Noun

gallium nitride (uncountable)

1. A semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes.

   Synonym: GaN

   • 2013, Shuji Nakamura, Gerhard Fasol, The Blue Laser Diode: GaN Based Light Emitters and Lasers, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 7:

     However, with these previous LEDs full color displays were not possible because previous blue and green light emitting diodes were much too weak, and also did not cover the necessary color spectrum. The newly developed gallium nitride LEDs fill this gap.

Translations

semiconductor

• German: Galliumnitrid n

Further reading

• gallium nitride on Wikipedia.Wikipedia