Introduction to Nitride Semiconductor Blue Lasers and Light Emitting Diodes

Introduction to Nitride Semiconductor Blue Lasers and Light Emitting Diodes
ISBN-10
0748408363
ISBN-13
9780748408368
Category
Science
Pages
390
Language
English
Published
2000-03-09
Publisher
CRC Press
Authors
Shuji Nakamura, Shigefusa F. Chichibu

Description

The "blue laser" is an exciting new device used in physics. The potential is now being recognized for its development into a commercial lighting system using about a tenth of the power and with a thousand times the operating lifetime of a comparable conventional system. This comprehensive work introduces the subject at a level suitable for graduate students. It covers the basics physics of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes (LDs) based on gallium nitride and related nitride semiconductors, and gives an outline of their structural, transport and optical properties, and the relevant device physics. It begins with the fundamentals, and covers both theory and experiment, as well as an examination of actual and potential device applications. Shuji Nakamura and Nichia Chemicals Industries made the initial breakthroughs in the field, and these have revealed that LEDs and LDs are a sophisticated physical phenomenon and a commercial reality.

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