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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I imagine that lithography for integrated circuits would be an application, assuming you could make an appropriate photo-resist. The shorter the wavelength, the smaller the possible feature size. Current lithography relies on constructive and destructive interference between wavelengths to create super small features.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      As far as “light” it’s already capped out, then. Going shorter there’s only x-ray and then Gamma ray. Gamma ray lithography sounds bad-ass and dangerous.

      • JATth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Gamma rays have so much energy that they are basically emitted only by nuclear processes, as far as I know.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Until we stick it in an led!

          I guess past the uv range we should just call them ED, but then you only think about erectile dysfunction.