The LED Color Strip Kit is based on a strip of six different color LEDs and a 65-page activity booklet that illustrates the properties of LEDs and semiconductor materials with a series of hands-on, minds-on activities. Because semiconducting materials found in LEDs are grown virtually an atomic layer at a time, light-emitting diodes represent an exciting application of nanotechnology.
The
kit includes a printed circuit board with 6 different color LEDs and
a capacitor, a diffraction grating, a fiber optic, a luminescent cap, and
an incandescent bulb.
To order a kit contact the Institute
for Chemical Education.
Unfortunately the Institute for Chemical Education at the University of Wisconsin Madison shut down during COVID and has not reopened.
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This kit was created by Jonathan Breitzer, S. Michael Condren (Christian Brothers University), George C. Lisensky (Beloit College), Karen J. Nordell (Lawrence University), Cynthia G. Widstrand (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Arthur B. Ellis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and edited by Kathleen Shanks Rehder.