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Intern: Maykel Ghorbanzadeh, UCSB
Mentor: Bremdam
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Steven Denbaars
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering/Materials |
GaN LEDS AND LASERS FOR SOLID-STATE LIGHTING AND DISPLAYS
Solid-State is innovative field in opto-electronics, which will help us to make a great deal of improvement to existing technologies that we use on a daily basis. Large Information displays, DVD and CD burners, car head and taillights, fiber communication are some examples for the application of GaN LEDs and Lasers. This summer my contribution to the group that I was working with was to work on couple of projects. One of these included designing and fabricating interior lighting (reading light for example) by using GaN LEDs. The second project was to understand the use of fluorescence light for night fishing and tries to mimic the same results with solid-state light. These projects are to be used as demonstration models in solid state and lighting display center at UCSB. The benefits of using solid-state lights are 85-90% electricity saving, 5‡10 yrs longer life span (durability) and Maintenance Savings. I was also partially involved in the MOCVD (Metal organic chemical vapor deposition) lab monitoring my mentors and learning how to operate the machines and the techniques of growing samples. There excites a great deal of improvement in this field (improving the growing techniques to reduce dislocations in GaN, which allows for better efficiency use of the devices). This was a once in lifetime experience. It was very exciting to be involved with on of the top research groups at UCSB and be working in a professional environment.
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