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gallium nitride

gallium nitride noun: a semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes.

Noun

gallium nitride (uncountable)

  1. A semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes.
    • 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.2013, Shuji Nakamura, Gerhard Fasol, The Blue Laser Diode: GaN Based Light Emitters and Lasers, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 7
    Synonyms:
    GaN

Synonyms of gallium nitride

Questions about gallium nitride

What does gallium nitride mean?
Gallium nitride means a semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes.
What part of speech is gallium nitride?
Gallium nitride is a noun.

Words near gallium nitride in the dictionary

  1. gallium
  2. gallium arsenide
  3. gallium arsenide phosphide
  4. gallium arsenide phosphides
  5. gallium nitrate
  6. gallium nitride
  7. Gallivan
  8. Gallivanism
  9. Gallivanisms
  10. Gallivans
  11. gallivant

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