emit light

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They are especially valuable because they emit light in the second near infrared region, which can travel deep into biological tissue.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

Wide pixels, which emit light to the sides, are separated from narrow, front-pointing pixels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

These defects can absorb and emit light in the visible range with well-defined optical transitions, and they can act as local traps for electrons.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2024

Those headlights, on the ends of two of its arms, are more properly called photophores - organs that react a mix of substances with oxygen to emit light.

From BBC • May 16, 2024

They enter our atmosphere with planetary velocity, and by friction against the air they are raised to incandescence and caused to emit light and heat.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John