Gallium Nitride

Gallium Nitride

compound
GaN

The crystal behind every blue LED and the screens that light up our world

This crystal structure earned its inventors the 2014 Nobel Prize — it's why your phone screen glows.

Material

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Frame

Brown

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Crystallography

Catalogue identityGallium nitride — P6₃mc
FormulaGaN
Crystal systemhexagonal
Space groupP 63 m c
Lattice (a, b, c) Å3.18, 3.18, 5.166
Angles (α, β, γ) °90, 90, 120
Density (g/cm³)6.146

Structure data: Crystallography Open Database · Public domain (CC0)