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Color Science and Photometry for Lighting with LEDs and Semiconductor Nanocrystals pp 17–26Cite as

Metrics for Light Source Design

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In this part of this brief, we summarize the metrics that need to be considered for designing light sources. We start with metrics on the shade of color and then continue with color rendering and photometry.

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  1. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Talha Erdem

  2. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Hilmi Volkan Demir

  3. Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology (UNAM), Bilkent University, Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey

    Hilmi Volkan Demir

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Erdem, T., Demir, H.V. (2019). Metrics for Light Source Design. In: Color Science and Photometry for Lighting with LEDs and Semiconductor Nanocrystals. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5886-9_4

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