The LED, or light-emitting diode, is very unlikely to fail, and if it does, it goes out slowly over years. Instead, it's the other electrical bits in LED bulbs that fail and cut off the bulb's light.

Physicists have created the tiniest light-emitting diode (LED) displays ever 1. The image above was shown on a monochromatic display with pixels less than 100 micrometres across, about the width ...