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Solid-state lighting on glass

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The ability to fabricate an array of GaN light emitters on an amorphous glass substrate could lead to significant improvements in the scalability and cost of blue and white LED technology.

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Figure 1: Structural cross-section (top) and scanning electron microscope image (bottom) of an array of light-emitting GaN pyramids grown on glass.

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  1. Nicolas Grandjean and Raphaël Butté are at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 3, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland,

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