Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 7 months agoI 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.de 7 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.
JATtho@lemmy.world 7 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.de 7 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.