How to Use light-emitting diode in a Sentence

light-emitting diode

noun

• The machines use light-emitting diodes to show your MPH on the highway.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2018
• Park staff removed 13 streetlights and switched many bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LED).
  — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 2 July 2018
• In a light-emitting diode, electrons drop out of the conduction band by losing energy in the form of light.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 22 July 2019
• Investors may want to pick up a few shares of the organic light-emitting diode expert for three reasons: 1.
  — Dallas News, 6 June 2021
• Bruno Sanguinetti and his team used an 8-megapixel camera in a Nokia N9 smartphone to take a picture of a light-emitting diode.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2015
• On the darkened stage Jepsen showed how bodies are translucent to red light, popping a light-emitting diode in her mouth so that her head glowed from within like a bloody skull.
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018
• His research helped pave the way for a blue light-emitting diode and, in turn, the modern energy-efficient LED lightbulb.
  — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
• On the other hand, organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, screens skip the backlight and instead use an electric current to light up the pixels one by one.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 28 June 2020
• LEDs — light-emitting diodes — have given designers of lamps, chandeliers, sconces and flashlights a new world to explore.
  — Arlene Hirst, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• The research team introduced ChRmine into heart muscle cells of live mice whose torsos were fitted with a vest equipped with a micro–light-emitting diode bulb.
  — Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 1 Mar. 2023
• The apparatus was mounted on a light-emitting diode panel for a uniform light background.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
• Now a team of researchers has found a way around this resolution problem in a stretchy organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2024
• Organic light-emitting diode screens are showing up everywhere, from midrange smartphones to top-shelf TV sets.
  — Dallas News, 19 June 2022
• So his team built two large tanks, one 1.2 meters tall and outfitted with blue light-emitting diodes and one 2 meters tall illuminated with a blue laser.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 18 Apr. 2018
• Foldable smartphones have been in the works for years, thanks to flexible organic light-emitting diode screens developed by Samsung and LG.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2018
• These include making organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) in a way that allows the pixels to bend without degrading and creating a hinge that won't cause the screen to pop off.
  — Ahiza Garcia, CNN, 26 June 2019
• State Farm Center arena was bathed in red to commemorate his invention of the first visible light-emitting diode in 1962.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• The type of display technology that currently dominates the market is LED, which stands for light-emitting diode.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2018
• The program is developing a new light-emitting diode display and software improvements to address the issue, the test office said.
  — Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2018
• The company created the labels that glow when touched using OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays that are similar to the ones on your phone.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Dec. 2019
• The researchers demonstrated by having a cell power an organic light-emitting diode (OLED).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
• Fluorescent bulbs emit more than 60 lumens per watt, and LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, generate more than 80 lumens.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2020
• Consider light-emitting diodes, the tiny part that makes LED light bulbs illuminate and are used in many industrial settings.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2018
• These factories are churning out leather seats, light-emitting diodes, heart stents, plastic ice buckets, smartphone screens, steering shafts.
  — Lauren Etter, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• By comparison, light-emitting diode (LED) flashlights—which emit light from tiny electronic chips—can provide a burst of light while using less than one-quarter of the power.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 31 July 2020
• This involves integrating a wireless light-emitting diode, or LED, beneath the skin that is connected to the device via an optical fiber.
  — Pengju Li, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2024
• So, when the ball drops for you this evening, remember that the arrow-time of your biography, the cycle-time of your calendar year, the one-time of your birth and the all-time of the ball’s light-emitting diodes are inextricably entangled.
  — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
• The current worldwide trend is leaning towards replacing gas-discharge lamps with solid-state lighting like light-emitting diode lights.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2012
• Most smartphones use organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) in their digital displays.
  — Ahiza Garcia, CNN, 5 June 2019
• The resins are photopolymers that are cured by ultraviolet light-emitting diodes after each layer is printed.
  — Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024

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