Electronic – What are wavelengths of RGB diodes

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Disclaimer: I am not an electrical engineer, and nowhere near studying it either. This is just a curious question which I got and couldn't find an answer to.

I am aware of how several pixels are used to make up a television screen. Each pixel consists of 3 LEDs; one red, one blue, and one green. By varying the intensity of either the red, green, or blue; it's possible to bring about any possible color that exists.

My question is, what are the wavelengths of the light that these blue, green and red LEDs emit? Does it depend on TV to TV or is it general?

Best Answer

First off, leds typically transmit on a narrow band of wavelengths, shown below are the curves for a blue, green and red LED.

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You can see how they match up to the response of the human eye, so with only three colors, you can cover a wider range of colors. Usually with a TV they use an LED that covers more wavelengths than a standard LED.

They also go through the effort to match brightness and calibrate the LED's to a known color standard so that the color you see from the matches that of the media played and the camera that recorded the media.

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