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Nature Photonics 3, 432 - 434 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.124

Semiconductor photonics: Laser diodes go green

Asif Khan1

  1. Asif Khan is in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, 300 S. Main Street, Columbia SC 29208, USA.
    e-mail: asif@cec.sc.edu


Researchers at Nichia Corporation have demonstrated green InGaN-based lasers grown on c-plane sapphire, with lifetimes capable of supporting commercial applications.

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