Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
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The blue LED required good gallium nitride crystals and magnesium-doped material that could supply holes. The film traces the obstruction to hydrogen and compares shallow electron-beam treatment with scalable heating.
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only made the surfaces of the samples p-typethese hydrogen atoms were sneaking in and bonding with the magnesium