Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology

Introduction.- Conventional Light Sources.- Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs).- OLEDS/PLEDS.- LED Driver Technology.- Conventional Sensor Systems.- Advanced Sensor Systems.- Sensor Integration and Control Methods.- Advanced Lighting Control Technology.- Communications.- Applications/Case Studies.- Human Factors.- Circadian Topics.- Lighting and Education.- Lighting and the Workplace.- Energy Efficiency.- Environmental Considerations.- Governmental and Social Impacts.- Economics of smart lighting.- Driving Adoption.

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 is Director of the Institute of Lighting and Display Science and Distinguished Professor at National Central University, Taiwan. Ching-Cherng received his BS in electrophysics from National Chiao Tung University in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, from National Central University, in Jan. 1993. In 1996, he joined the faculty of National Central University, Taiwan. He served as the chairman of the SPIE Taiwan Chapter in 2002 and 2003. He is currently a Fellow of The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), and a member of the Optical Engineering Society of Republic of China and OSA. His research interests are volume holographic optical elements, LED lighting optics, photorefractive devices, holography, holographic storage, optical information processing, optical metrology, micro-optics, fiber optics 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 Toulouse III University, France. He is responsible for the "High