The invention provides a light-emitting diode, a light-emitting diode lamp, and an illumination device which emit infrared light with both high-speed response and high output performance. By sharing computing resources of a communications transceiver, the cost of a monitoring device can be significantly reduced, while still permitting sufficient functionality to effectively observe an area of interest, such as a child’s sleeping area. The modifications can include, for example, rerouting one or more internal signals andor substituting a fully functional programmable resource for a defective programmable resource. Process gases may be injected through a plurality of ports, and are capable of achieving a fine level of distribution control of the gas components, including the film source gas, dopant source gas, and carrier gas.