LED Color – RGB Spectrum of an RGB LED

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What colors is an RGB LED actually able to emit? Obviously, it's not able to represent the whole spectrum of RGB (it will not be black, or brown).

I'm referring to a LED like this:

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I found the following characteristics at https://www.analog.com/en/technical-articles/control-color-of-led-stage-and-architectural-lighting-easy-accurate-13-bit-color.html:

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Is it true that a single LED is able to emit colors as the smallest triangle on the illustration above shows?

If this is the case, how does LED monitor display colors like brown?

Best Answer

The simplest answer is… in the LED datasheet! Usually they give the emission spectrum of the single channels and from it you could work out the useful gamut of the led.

You might consider asking for binned parts if you really need consistence in your device emission.

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