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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-da...

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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Doppler effect?
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  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Blueshift
  
  Essentially yes
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  Yeah but it only works if the source is moving towards the observer

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