Gallium Nitride and Oxonitrides

Ceramics Science and Technology Volume 2 Properties. Edited by Ra]f Riedel and I-Wei Chen Copyright 2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 978-3-527-31156-9 

Since the seminal discovery of nitride-based blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by Maruska and Tietjen [39] in 1972, and of injection lasers [40] by Nakamura in 1995, the interest in Group 13 nitrides has increased rapidly, and has resulted in a broad usage for electrical and optical applications. Some thirty years after the first discovery 

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