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The worldwide market for GaN devices in 2007 was worth US$4 billion, establishing GaN as one of the most important new semiconductor materials since the dawn of the silicon age half a century ago.
GaN is critical to the production of a range of high performance electronic devices, particularly high brightness (HB) green, blue and white LEDs and UV laser diodes.
First invented little more than a decade ago, these devices have since found their way into an enormous variety of products, from backlights for mobile phones to traffic signals and household lamps. GaN is also used to make blue and UV laser diodes for the next generation of optical storage devices that are likely to succeed DVDs.
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