Now a days we often live without electronic light. Nearly this light can be emitted from a P-N junction operated as LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED).
The LED is made up of p-n junction diode.
HOW CAN A P-N JUNCTION GENERATE LIGHT???
Consider first a simple semiconductor. When an electron jump into a holes at the top of the valence band from the bottom of the conduction band, an energy Eg (equal to the gap width) is released. In silicon,