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An LED strip, tape, or ribbon light is a flexible circuit board populated by surface-mount light-emitting diodes (SMD LEDs) and other components that usually comes with an adhesive backing. Traditionally, strip lights had been used solely in accent lighting, backlighting, task lighting, and decorative lighting applications, such as cove lighting .
Since these materials have a high index of refraction, [note 1] design features of the devices such as special optical coatings and die shape are required to efficiently emit light. A LED is a long-lived light source, but certain mechanisms can cause slow loss of efficiency of the device or sudden failure.
Scientists have discovered a mysterious pulsating light—and they don’t know what it could be. It pulses at a rate of about once every 21 minutes, and has been doing so since at least 1988.
November 1917 ad for an Ingersoll "Radiolite" watch, one of the first watches mass marketed in the USA featuring a radium-illuminated dial. Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 [1] and was soon combined with paint to make luminescent paint, which was applied to clocks, airplane instruments, and the like, to be able to read them in the dark.
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodiodes, which are sensitive to light, measuring changes in light absorption in the body. [8] The four main technical mechanisms of pulse watches, used to measure heart rate include: [9] Green (LED) light displayed on modern pulse watch. 1. Optical emitters — LEDs send coloured light waves into the skin.
Cryoluminescence, the emission of light when an object is cooled [6] (an example of this is wulfenite) Photoluminescence, a result of the absorption of photons Fluorescence, traditionally defined as the emission of light that ends immediately after the source of excitation is removed. As the definition does not fully describe the phenomenon ...
In most designs, vigorously shaking the light for about 30 seconds may provide up to 5 minutes of light, though the advertised time omits the reduced output of the LED after 2 or 3 minutes. Shaking the unit for 10 to 15 seconds every 2 or 3 minutes as necessary permits the device to be used continuously.
Simple LED (Light Emitting Diode) circuit diagram. In electronics, an LED circuit or LED driver is an electrical circuit used to power a light-emitting diode (LED). The circuit must provide sufficient current to light the LED at the required brightness, but must limit the current to prevent damaging the LED.