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Nanowires Grown to Power Tiny Lasers, LEDs

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GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 30, 2006 -- The nano world is getting brighter, thanks to newly "grown" nanowires made of semiconductor materials that are being used to make prototype lasers and LEDs with emission apertures roughly 100 nanometers in diameter, or about 50 times narrower than their conventional counterparts, and the measurement tools needed to characterize them. NIST "grows" semiconductor nanowires that emit ultraviolet light as part of a project to make prototype nanolasers and other devices and the measurement tools needed to characterize them. An electron micrograph shows the gallium nitride wires growing on a silicon...Read full article

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    Published: May 2006
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