Mastodon post amplifies the announcement as environmental good news
5 Nov 2 3:50 AM · 9d ago · 1 post · 2 comments · 2 sources · development 5 of 5
A Mastodon user reshares the story under a "GoodNews" framing, highlighting the environmental and cost benefits of dropping rare earths from white LED production.
“White LEDs currently need rare earth minerals, which creates environmental problems and also makes production more expensive. Now Seoul Viosys claims to have entered mass production for a white LED that is solely based on gallium nitride (GaN) alone that are far smaller and last far longer.”
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.netSeoul Viosys Developer of WICOP 3 chipSeoul Semiconductor Parent company of Seoul Viosys
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# GoodNews White LEDs currently need rare earth minerals, which creates environmental problems and also makes production more expensive. Now Seoul Viosys claims to have entered mass production for a white LED that is solely based on gallium nitride (GaN) alone that are far smaller and last far longer. https://www. semiconductor-today.com/news_i…
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IIRC/IIUC, GaN could only deal with UV or at most deep-ish blue, for both input and output, due to bandgap or whatever quantum reasons I don't understand. To create white light from light emitted by a GaN device, it needs to be downconverted into visible range by use of either phosphorous materials or a nanoparticle resembling them that are…
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Isn't GaN already the base for blue led and for all current white-ish led lighting?Here they are somehow eliminating the need for phosphors for color conversion but they didn't say how.I mean, if GaN is a problem we are already in a bad shape.
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