New development in Light Emitting silicon

[vicbin]

Interesting news about LED development.

Quote "....the quantum efficiency was 100 time higher than that previously achieved....."

STMicro claims light-emitting silicon breakthrough

Wondering if they can come out with the blue one for creating new blinding white led.

 

[Quickbeam]

Actually it says that output is the same as the gallium arsenide LEDs currently on the market. They just use silicon compounds instead.