Meanwhile General Electric, Philips and Siemens are all trying, along with R&D partners, to build solid - state lighting based
on gallium nitride LEDs.
He was set to sign with the company, but a professor at one of the universities that was courting him advised that if he took an industrial job, Nichiawhich held the patents
on all his gallium nitride breakthroughswould sue him the moment he did anything even remotely related.
Not exact matches
Returning to Nichia in March 1989 to begin work
on blue - light devices, he had to choose between the two main semiconductors then being developed: zinc selenide and
gallium nitride.
The scientists first grew carpets of microscopic wires of
gallium nitride, a light - emitting crystalline material,
on an ultrathin mesh of graphene, which is a layer of carbon atoms that is flexible, conductive and tough.
Nanowires for LEDs are made up of an inner core of
gallium nitride (GaN) and a layer of indium -
gallium -
nitride (InGaN)
on the outside, both of which are semiconducting materials.
At the International Symposium
on Low Power Electronics and Design in August, Gao, Peh, and lead author Pilsoon Choi, a postdoc in Peh's group, together with researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, presented a paper demonstrating that an 802.11 p radio built from
gallium nitride and controlled by silicon electronics would consume half the power that existing radios do.
Conventionally, such LEDs require
gallium nitride to be placed
on a substrate of sapphire, with a separate reflector to direct the light.
In the study, the researchers found that the
gallium -
nitride nanowire growth orientation strongly depended
on the relative concentration of nickel and gold within the catalyst.
But it's possible to use indium arsenide,
gallium arsenide,
gallium nitride or other so - called III - V materials from group III and group V. Being from different groups
on the periodic table means transistor materials would have different properties, and the big one here is better electron mobility.
He was a research scientist for 10 years at Bell Labs, working
on nontrivial topics such as Molecular Beam Epitaxy, high - temperature superconductors,
gallium nitride and — here's where we come in — electronic publishing.