Meanings
- uncountableA 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 7Synonyms: GaN
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 氮化鎵 /氮化镓
- 氮化鎵 /氮化镓 (dànhuàjiā)semiconductor
Finnish galliumnitridi
- galliumnitridisemiconductor
German Galliumnitrid
- Galliumnitridsemiconductor
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gallium nitride. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gallium%20nitride
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