Abstract

Amid the New Year's dearth of industry news, a new light has begun to shine brightly: Shuji Nakamura has made the world's first commercial blue laser diode. On the eve of a new century, the semiconductor blue laser diode is a breakthrough that promises to transform data storage and a host of other industry sectors. Meanwhile, InGaN LEDs continue to make progress, with the latest generation of LEDs seeming to promise to contradict the old adage that one who burns twice as bright does so for half as long.

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