What is the difference between diode and LED?

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asked Jan 16, 2019 in Engineering by Linust589 (550 points)
What is the difference between diode and LED?

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answered Jan 18, 2019 by Shawn (102,150 points)
The only real difference between a diode and an LED is the material it's made of sine an LED is actually a light emitting diode so the led really is a diode as well.

A diode is made of Indirect Semiconductor (Si, Ge) materials while an led is made from direct semiconductor material (GaAs. InP).

They're essentially the same thing but one is made of different material than the other depending on what the diode is being made into.

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