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Ananya Shree

Class 12th
Physics
2 years ago

Explain why elemental semiconductor cannot be used to make visible LEDs.

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

In elemental conductor, the band gap is such that the emissions are in infrared region and not in visible region.Because the energy released by combination of holes and electrons in elemental semiconductors does not lie in the visible spectrum, elemental semiconductor cannot be used to make visible LED's .

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