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In 1972, Herb Maruska and Wally Rhines at Stanford University created the first blue-violet LED using magnesium-doped gallium nitride. At the time, their work built upon research from RCA Laboratories where Maruska previously worked. In 1989, Cree introduced the first commercially available blue LED based on silicon carbide, which had very low efficiency of around 0.03% but did emit in the blue portion of the visible light spectrum.

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Blue and Ultraviolet: External Video

In 1972, Herb Maruska and Wally Rhines at Stanford University created the first blue-violet LED using magnesium-doped gallium nitride. At the time, their work built upon research from RCA Laboratories where Maruska previously worked. In 1989, Cree introduced the first commercially available blue LED based on silicon carbide, which had very low efficiency of around 0.03% but did emit in the blue portion of the visible light spectrum.

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Blue and ultraviolet[edit]

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The first blue-violet LED using magnesium-doped gallium nitride was made at Stanford University in
1972 by Herb Maruska and Wally Rhines, doctoral students in materials science and engineering. [79]
[80]

At the time Maruska was on leave from RCA Laboratories, where he collaborated with Jacques

Pankove on related work. In 1971, the year after Maruska left for Stanford, his RCA colleagues
Pankove and Ed Miller demonstrated the first blue electroluminescence from zinc-doped gallium
nitride, though the subsequent device Pankove and Miller built, the first actual gallium nitride lightemitting diode, emitted green light.[81][82] In 1974 the U.S. Patent Office awarded Maruska, Rhines and
Stanford professor David Stevenson a patent for their work in 1972 (U.S. Patent US3819974 A) and
today magnesium-doping of gallium nitride continues to be the basis for all commercial blue LEDs
and laser diodes. These devices built in the early 1970s had too little light output to be of practical
use and research into gallium nitride devices slowed. In August 1989, Cree introduced the first
commercially available blue LED based on the indirect bandgapsemiconductor, silicon carbide (SiC).

[83]

SiC LEDs had very low efficiency, no more than about 0.03%, but did emit in the blue portion of

the visible light spectrum

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