TY - JOUR AU - Kim, Jong Kyu AB - More than a century after the introduction of incandescent lighting and half a century after the introduction of fluorescent lighting, solid-state light sources are revolutionizing an increasing number of applications. Whereas the efficiency of conventional incandescent and fluorescent lights is limited by fundamental factors that cannot be overcome, the efficiency of solid-state sources is limited only by human creativity and imagination. The high efficiency of solid-state sources already provides energy savings and environmental benefits in a number of applications. However, solid-state sources also offer controllability of their spectral power distribution, spatial distribution, color temperature, temporal modulation, and polarization properties. Such "smart" light sources can adjust to specific environments and requirements, a property that could result in tremendous benefits in lighting, automobiles, transportation, communication, imaging, agriculture, and medicine. TI - Solid-state light sources getting smart. JF - Science (New York, N.Y.) DO - 10.1126/science.1108712 DA - 2005-06-14 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pubmed/solid-state-light-sources-getting-smart-G0IGRcb6XO SP - 1274 EP - 8 VL - 308 IS - 5726 DP - DeepDyve ER -