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Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology

  • Clarifies basic physical principles and device technologies behind all light source types
  • Reviews research on the impact of lighting on healthcare & education, and other human factors
  • Treats the latest breakthroughs in lighting technology, transportation and communication
  • Crosses disciplines from electrical, electronic, civil & automotive engineering to materials & environmental science and physics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (47 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. History of Light Sources

      • John F. Waymouth
      Pages 3-40
    3. History of Solid-State Light Sources

      • Oleg Shchekin, M. George Craford
      Pages 41-70
  3. Light-Emitting Diodes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. LED Materials: Epitaxy and Quantum Well Structures

      • Zhen-Yu Li, Hao-Chung Kuo, Chen-Yu Shieh, Ching-Hsueh Chiu, Po-Min Tu, Wu-Yih Uen
      Pages 73-121
    3. LED Materials: GaN on Si

      • Armin Dadgar, Alois Krost
      Pages 123-147
    4. Thin-GaN LED Materials

      • Ray-Hua Horng
      Pages 149-179
    5. Phosphors for White LEDs

      • Chun Che Lin, Wei-Ting Chen, Ru Shi Liu
      Pages 181-222
    6. Optical Design: Chip and Packaging

      • Ching-Cherng Sun
      Pages 269-290
  4. OLEDS/PLEDS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
    2. White OLED Materials

      • Yonghua Chen, Dongge Ma
      Pages 293-320
    3. White OLED Devices

      • Dongge Ma
      Pages 321-361
    4. OLED Optics

      • Wooram Youn, Sai-Wing Tsang, Franky So
      Pages 363-383
    5. White OLED Lighting Panel Manufacturing Process

      • Jeffrey P. Spindler, John W. Hamer, Marina E. Kondakova
      Pages 385-416
    6. OLED Manufacturing Equipment and Methods

      • Jeffrey P. Spindler, John W. Hamer, Marina E. Kondakova
      Pages 417-441
  5. Intelligent Lighting System Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 443-443
    2. Dimming

      • Joseph Denicholas
      Pages 445-464

About this book

The Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology is a major reference work on the subject of light source science and technology, with particular focus on solid-state light sources – LEDs and OLEDs – and the development of 'smart' or 'intelligent' lighting systems; and the integration of advanced light sources, sensors, and adaptive control architectures to provide tailored illumination which is 'fit to purpose.' The concept of smart lighting goes hand-in-hand with the development of solid-state light sources, which offer levels of control not previously available with conventional lighting systems. This has impact not only at the scale of the individual user, but also at an environmental and wider economic level. These advances have enabled and motivated significant research activity on the human factors of lighting, particularly related to the impact of lighting on healthcare and education, and the Handbook provides detailed reviews of work in these areas. The potential applications forsmart lighting span the entire spectrum of technology, from domestic and commercial lighting, to breakthroughs in biotechnology, transportation, and light-based wireless communication. Whilst most current research globally is in the field of solid-state lighting, there is renewed interest in the development of conventional and non-conventional light sources for specific applications. This Handbook comprehensively reviews the basic physical principles and device technologies behind all light source types and includes discussion of the state-of-the-art. The book essentially breaks down into five major sections: Section 1: The physics, materials, and device technology of established, conventional, and emerging light sources, Section 2: The science and technology of solid-state (LED and OLED) light sources, Section 3: Driving, sensing and control, and the integration of these different technologies under the concept of smart lighting, Section 4: Human factors and applications, Section 5: Environmental and economic factors and implications

Reviews

“It is a monumental work with an encyclopedic character due to the number of topics covered and the diversity of subjects approached, admirable for the way it manages to maintain high scientific and technical standards throughout such a long text. … This manual is extremely useful, even indispensable for engineers and other skilled workers who work either in the lighting devices industry or in the design of lighting projects of any size.” (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, Acta Scientiae et Intellectus, Vol. 4 (1), 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Smart Lighting Engineering Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

    Robert Karlicek

  • Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Ching-Cherng Sun

  • Toulouse University, Toulouse, France

    Georges Zissis

  • OLED Lighting, Universal Display Corporation, Ewing, USA

    Ruiqing Ma

About the editors

Robert Karlicek Jr is Director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Bob has been director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) since January 2010. He worked for more than 25 years in research, development, and manufacturing of opto-electronic devices with industry leaders including AT&T Bell Labs, EMCORE, General Electric, Gore Photonics, and Microsemi. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 journal papers, and holds 24 U.S. patents for LED and lighting devices ranging from LED packaging designs to LEDs with novel LED interconnect architectures. He is a member of IEEE, the Optical Society of America (OSA), American Chemical Society (ACS), and Radtech. 

Ching-Cherng Sun received his BS in electrophysics from National Chiao Tung University in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, from National Central University (NCU), in Jan. 1993. In 1996, he joined the faculty of Department of Optics and Photonics at NCU, and have become a Chair Professor since 2013. He founded the Institute of Lighting and Display in NCU, which is the first lighting-related institute in Taiwan. He is the Director of Optical Sciences Center at NCU currently. Professor Sun has published more than 140 journal papers, and held more than 60 patents. He is a Fellow of The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) and Optical Society of America (OSA). His research interests include LED optics, optical modeling for phosphor, lighting design, volume holography, holographic data storage, optical information processing, optical system and optical engineering.

Dr Georges Zissis is Professor and Deputy Director of LaPlaCE (Laboratory of Plasma and Energy Conversion) at Toulouse University, France. Georges Zissis graduated in 1986 from the Physics Department of the University of Crete (Greece) in general physics. He got his MSc and PhD in Plasma Science in 1987 and 1990 from ToulouseIII University, France. He is responsible for the “High Intensity Light Sources” research team. Prof Zissis won in December 2006 the 1st Award of the International Electrotechnics Committee (IEC) Centenary Challenge for his work on normalization for urban lighting systems. He is currently deputy director of “LaPlaCE,” a joint laboratory between Toulouse 3 University, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse and CNRS (French National Council of Research). LaPlaCE represents a task force of 300 researchers. He is Chairman of the European Union COST-529 “efficient lighting for the 21st century” network, which regroups more than 80 academic and industrial institutions from 20 European countries; Chairman of the Lighting and Displays technical committee (LDC) of IEEE-IAS; President of the Regional Branch of the French Illuminating Society (AFE) and National Secretary of the same organisation.

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