The first -violet LED, using magnesium-doped was made at in 1972 by Herb Maruska and, doctoral students in materials science and engineering. At the time Maruska was on leave from, where he collaborated with Jacques Pankove on related work. In 1971, the year after Maruska left for Stanford, his RCA colleagues Pankove and Ed Miller demonstrated the first blue electroluminescence from zinc-doped gallium nitride, though the subseque.