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Basic definition of LED

A Light Emitting Diode is an electronic device that emits light when current is passed through it. LEDs are
small, extremely efficient, bright, cheap, electronic components. They are the single most common way
to add light to your project. LEDs come in many different colors, packages, brightnesses and
technologies. With so many options, you’ll have many things to consider as you plan your project and
choose the best LED for your needs.

LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are semiconductor light sources that combine a P-type semiconductor
(larger hole concentration) with an N-type semiconductor (larger electron concentration). Applying a
sufficient forward voltage will cause the electrons and holes to recombine at the P-N junction, releasing
energy in the form of light.

Compared with conventional light sources that first convert electrical energy into heat, and then into
light, LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) convert electrical energy directly into light, delivering efficient light
generation with little-wasted electricity.

LEDs are made from a very thin layer of fairly heavily doped semiconductor material and depending on
the semiconductor material used and the amount of doping, when forward biased an LED will emit a
colored light at a particular spectral wavelength.

Brief history

Captain Henry Joseph Round was one of the early pioneers of radio and received 117 patents. He was
the first to report observation of electroluminescence from a diode, leading to the discovery of the light-
emitting diode. Vladimirovich Losev observed light emission from carborundum point-contact junctions.
In course of his work as a radio technician, he noticed that crystal diodes used in radio receivers emitted
light when current was passed through them. In 1927, Losev published details in a Russian journal about
his work on light-emitting diodes. A couple of years later Nick Holonyak, Jr. invented the first visible-
spectrum (red) LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company
laboratory in Syracuse, New York.

Sources:

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/diode/diode_8.html

https://www.rohm.com/electronics-basics/leds/what-are-leds

https://www.instructables.com/All-You-Need-to-Know-bout-LEDs/

https://www.sparkfun.com/leds

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