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
  • 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
  • Over the past decade, the shift from electric light to electronic lighting—in the form of light-emitting diodes—has made the problem worse.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The apparatus was mounted on a light-emitting diode panel for a uniform light background.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Park staff removed 13 streetlights and switched many bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LED).
    — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 2 July 2018
  • Choose efficient lighting, like light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • This skin care technology (short for light-emitting diodes) looks straight out of a sci-fi movie, but there’s tangible science to back its benefits.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Organic light-emitting diode screens are showing up everywhere, from midrange smartphones to top-shelf TV sets.
    — Dallas News, 19 June 2022
  • 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
  • The ubiquitous p-n junction forms the backbone of devices such as solar cells, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, and lasers.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Using light-emitting diode, or LED, holiday light strings will reduce the cost of decorating homes.
    — Eric Lagatta, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Using light-emitting diode, or LED, holiday light strings will reduce the cost of decorating homes.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Most smartphones use organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) in their digital displays.
    — Ahiza Garcia, CNN, 5 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 researchers demonstrated by having a cell power an organic light-emitting diode (OLED).
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • By now, most of us are familiar with the futuristic glow of LED face masks—those sci-fi-looking devices that promise better skin by way of red and blue light-emitting diodes.
    — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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