The ceramic they experimented with was silicon nitride, a material much admired in the aerospace industry.

她们测试的陶瓷材料是－－一种在太空工业中饱受赞誉的材料。

The result was a composite that was able to withstand twice as much pressure as unalloyed silicon nitride.

和纯相比，其合成物能经受的压力强度翻倍。

The charging speed is 10 times faster than the iPhone and comes from a new material called GaN, or gallium nitride.

充速度比 iPhone 快 10 倍，来自一种叫做镓的新材料。

It'll be a little while before gallium nitride takes over the world.

镓占领世界还需要一段时间。

Meanwhile, RavPower has also made a gallium nitride charger.

同时，RavPower也做了一款镓充器。

We want to bring these down, so we use different materials like silicon nitride.

我们希望将这些尺寸减小，因此使用了不同的材料，比如。

The material we're after is called gallium nitride, or GaN.

我们正在寻找的材料称为镓或 GaN。

Basically, light can be guided in a simple wire of usually an insulating material, so silicon, silicon nitride.

基本上， 光可以在通常由绝缘材料制成的简单光纤中传导，例如、等不同类型的玻璃。

Gallium nitride can pave the way for a whole new generation of miniaturized tech.

镓可以为全新一代微型技道路。

And this, you need basically this gallium nitride electronics to make that happen.

而且，您基本上需要这种镓子设备才能实现这一目标。

It's not super visible, but hidden inside this chip is gallium nitride.

它不是特别显眼，但隐藏在该芯片内部的是镓。

Gallium nitride has researchers like Martin sold.

镓有像 Martin 这样的研究人员出售。

Right now, creating gallium nitride is expensive.

现在，制造镓非常昂贵。

While all other scientists focused their work on zinc selenide because it was considered better for the blue LED, Shuji decided on another material altogether, gallium nitride.

当其他科学家都专注于研究硒锌，认为它更适合用于蓝色发光二极管时，中村修二却选择了另一种完全不同的材料——镓。

He thought by focusing on gallium nitride, it would give him a better chance of developing his LED, and more importantly to him, writing an original PhD paper.

他认为，专注于镓将为他研发发光二极管提供更大机会，更关键的是，这能让他撰写一篇原创的博士论文。

It's made from the stuff of microchips: silicon, a layer of silicon dioxide, and on top a very thin film of silicon nitride, which is perforated by a grid of microscopic circular holes.

、二氧层以及最上层非常薄的薄膜，而这层薄膜被打上排成网格状的微小圆孔。