Invited Talk 1

 

Solid-State Lighting: An Industry Without Standards

 

Kevin Dowling, Ph.D.

VP Strategic Technologies, Color Kinetics Incorporated

 

 

LED-based lighting, also termed solid-state lighting (SSL), is a rapidly growing industry bereft of accepted standards. What does this mean for a nascent industry and more importantly, what does this mean for a customer and end-user? In a word: confusion.

 

The industry is not sitting still and there are many efforts in progress but still no standards on luminous flux measurement, lifetime definitions and measurement. Remarkably though, the slow but steady standards process is causing many widely accepted measures to be questioned and re-evaluated such as color-rendering index (CRI), V(lambda) and more.

 

We will review LED industry progress, standards efforts and what's in store for those in the measurement community.

 

 

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Invited Talk 2 Measurement of Optical Properties of Materials

New Materials, New Techniques- Challenges in Metrology

 

Art Springsteen Ph.D.

President, Avian Technologies LLC

 

 

The metrology of optical properties of materials offers new challenges with the development of new and novel optical materials. With the advent of the use of 'optical' materials in everyday life, from gonioapparent pigments in currency to fluorescent materials in retro reflectors and in the printing industry to measurement of extremely small samples, new techniques and instrumentation must be developed to keep up with advances in technology.

 

This talk will focus on these techniques, the requirements for industrial metrologist, and the role of National Metrology Laboratories in keeping up with these advances.

 

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