Infrared LED

Modern · Computation · 1962

TL;DR

Infrared LED - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Infrared LED - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Tunnel diode p–n junction Light-emitting diode

Enabling Materials

  • Gallium arsenide

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Infrared LED:

Visible-light LED

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction

Related Inventions

Tunnel diode Light-emitting diode Visible-light LED p–n junction

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Electronics

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