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submitted 2 years ago by Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] bort@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

full-spectrum lighting

this doesn't sound true.

iirc full spectrum means "every wavelength" (like sunlight) and not just "3 wavelengths that add up to white".

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[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's true (here's an interesting video on the subject of colored light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg), but as mentioned at https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?si=i8wjHjaKRaQbf23b&t=1516, once you have a blue LED, you can use a phosphor to convert the light to a range of longer wavelengths.

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