Alfred Borden, Principal of The Lighting Practice, will be attending and presenting at LEDucation in New York City. He will participate in a panel discussion focused on white solid state lighting. Al and his fellow panelists will present several case studies illustrating consistency issues with white solid-state lighting, describe better systems and ways to avoid these problems, share manufacturing challenges and successes in providing more predictability in products, and discuss future possibilities and solutions.
LEDucation 2016
March 29 – 30
New York Hilton at Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
What Color is White Solid-State Lighting?
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The method for describing and quantifying the color of white lighting has always been insufficient. Metrics such as color temperature and color rendition never quite satisfied designers or specifiers of legacy sources using filaments, phosphors and gaseous excitation. The practical result is that it can be nearly impossible to find different sources in a lighting design that truly match color. The myriad of possibilities and pitfalls for white lighting offered by emerging solid-state technology demands a new vocabulary of descriptive terms, redress of manufacturing protocols, creation of new test metrics and rebuilding of specification standards. This panel will address these issues from the viewpoint of product developers, marketers, lighting designers and visual researchers. The presentation will review the roots and limitations of current methods, the opportunities for building new standards and market pressures that impede their adoption. The panelists intend for this presentation to push the industry into changing how it answers the basic question: What Color is White solid-state Lighting?
Presenters: Naomi Miller (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Willem Sillevis Smitt (Xicato), Kevin Willmorth (Lumenique, LLC), and Alfred R. Borden, FIALD, CLD (The Lighting Practice)