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The band gap of the semiconductor used for fabrication of visible LED's must at least be 1.8 eV.

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The photon energy, of visible light photons varies from about 1.8 eV to 3 eV. Hence for visible LED.s, the semiconductor must have a band gap of 1.8 eV.
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