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IES publishes lighting specification for sports fields and venues

IES RP-6-15 covers recommended lighting practices for recreational to professional sports fields and venues with specific guidelines for individual sports. The original version of this article can be found...

CIE should endorse TM-30-15 color rendition metrics post haste

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has published a Technical Memorandum (TM-30-15) defining a new pair of metrics intended to characterize the color rendition of light sources. The original version of this article can be found...

Illuminating Engineering Society updates LED testing standards (MAGAZINE)

Jianzhong Jiao explains the expanded scope of the new LM-80 LED standard with coverage of color along with white LEDs and test methods defined specifically for DC high-voltage, AC, and other variants of the simple discrete LED. The original version of this article can...

UV and industrial LED applications require efficient thermal materials for LED substrates

A nanocrystalline aluminum oxide dielectric layer on LED module substrates provides the excellent thermal conductivity needed to ensure reliable operation of high-output sources in industrial applications, explains Pekka Katila. The original version of this article...