SMART LIGHTING EOD Materials

Smart Lighting ERC Outreach Activities
- Smart Power and Light (General access to the following program info)
- Summer 2011 Smart Power and Light High School Program (11th Grade)
- Summer 2010 Smart Power and Light High School Program (11th Grade)
- Summer 2010 Tech Valley Summer Camp (9th Grade)
- Summer 2010 Nanotech Summer Institute (Middle and High School Teachers)
General Optics and Photonics Information
- Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering in the 21st Century (National Academy Press)
- Polarization by Reflection (Photonics Magazine)
- Photovoltaic Education (University of New South Whales) Includes PV Book by Christiana Honsberg and Stuart Bowden
- Science of Spectroscopy (NASA)
- The Science of Light (Learner.org)
- Light Measurement Handbook (International Light) Free, requires registration
- Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology (RP-Photonics)
- Why Should Engineers and Scientists be Worried About Color? (IBM)
Light Emitting Diodes & Solid-State Lighting
- LightEmittingDiodes.org (Fred Schubert)
- How LEDs Work (How Stuff Works)
- LED Museum (Large collection of information on LEDs)
- A Practical Guide to Machine Vision Lighting (National Instruments)
- LED Lighting Applications (ON Semiconductor)
- Solid State Lighting (US DOE Energy Effeciency and Renewable Energy) EERE SSL Program Plan thru 2015
- Light Emitting Diodes (Wikipedia)
- The LED Center (Rob 'Linear' Arnold)
- LED Information from Color Kinetics
- Don Klipstein's LED Main Page
- LEDs (NICHIA) Also info on phosphors
- LEDs (Maxim-IC)
- The Radiometry of Light Emitting Diodes (labsphere)
- LEDs (Electronics Club)
- LED Lighting (Dow Corning)
- LED Lighting Information Search (CREE)
LED Specs (What is available?)
- LED Color Chart (Ledtronics) Lots of other technical info
- LED Info and Tech Data (LED LIGHT)
Color and Illumination
- Color Chart (LED Light) This is part of their collection of LED Technical Information
- Color Rendering (NIST)
- Color Temperature (Wikipedia)
- Field Guide to Illumination (SPIE)
- Lighting Education Online (LRC)
- Color Matters
- Science of Light (Teachers' Lab)
- The Science of Light with emphasis on LEDs is covered in the excellent site: Digital Earth Watch
Human Vision
- Light & Dark Adaptation in Human Vision (James Fulton)
- Eye Spectral Response (Telescope Optics)
Project Ideas
- LED Doubles as Emitter and Detector (From EDN)
- CD Cereal Box Spectrometer (BU use this in their 5th grade outreach, their write-up is better)
  - Science In School
  - Instant Fundas (includes link to a Java based virtual spectrometer
  - Spectroscope from a CD (Sci-Toys Light)
- Optical Communication Link (Developed in ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation for which the following Handout and PowerPoint Slides were developed) A simplified document is being prepared. This project is a modification of one described in Gordon McComb's Laser Cookbook.
  - Some Activities for the Optical Transmitter and Receiver (Ken Connor: These will be updated)
  - Recording of TVBGone Remote as Detected by the Optical Receiver Circuit (Ken Connor: wav file, right click on the file name to download, left to play)
- The Clapper (This was done as a project some time ago in Electronic Instrumentation)
- Many LED Projects (RobotRoom) A good starting point is the Simple LED Circuit for pumpkin lights
- Amateur Science (Bill Beaty) Too many projects to count, with some interesting ones on LEDs.
- Home Built LED Lighting (OTHERPOWER)
- Jello Optics (This has become quite popular of late, with information available on many web sites.)
  - Optics for Kids (OSA)
  - Exploration Station (Personal blog)
  - Edible Lasers (Optics and Photonics News)
  - Laser Jello (Exploratorium)
  - Super Gelatin (Star Date)
- Invisible Light & Remote Controls
  - Exploring Invisible Light (Sci-Toys Light)
  - Remote Control (Wikipedia)
  - Reverse Engineering a Remote (doc-diy)
  - Testing IR Transparency with a Remote Control (Robotroom)
  - Infrared Extender for Remotes (Andy Collinson)
- Polarization
Optics Education and Outreach Programs from Other Organizations
- OSA Educational Resources including the following:
  - Lighten Up! for Girl Scouts
  - Optics for Kids
  - Hands-On-Optics
- SPIE Resources for Educators
  - Optics Education Directory
  - ETOP (Education and Training in Optics and Photonics) All papers from these excellent conferences are available as free pdfs Some examples:
    - Optics Curriculum for Middle School Students (1995) Includes and excellent discussion of an optical communications link
    - International Photonics Training, A Case Study (2007)
    - Low Cost Home Experiments and Demonstrations in Optics (2005) Introduction to expoptic, experiments in Spanish
- Microscopy U (Nikon)
- Molecular Expressions, Exploring the World of Optics and Microscopy (FSU National Magnet Lab)
- NEBHE (New England Board of Higher Education)
  - PHOTON Projects Excellent, Award Winning Materials for K-12 to post secondary
    - Teacher Resources
    - Textbook Glossary Review
    - Lab Resources Supplement Teachers Manual Videos
    - Explorations in Optics (Does not require special lab kit) Videos
    - Fiber Optics Kit (From Hartford)
  - Three Rivers Community College Laser and Fiber Optic Technology
- Star Date Teacher Resources
- LED Outreach (Lighting Research Center)
- National Physical Laboratory (UK)
  - Educate and Explore
  - Blue Sky Research, done for Expedia . NPL built a portable spectrometer for the project, based, in part, on LEDs.
- Journals With Optics Education and Outreach Information
Education and Outreach that Include Some Optics
- Exploratorium
- Try Science
- Try Engineering
- Science Buddies (Resources Science Fair Projects)
- Exploration Station (Blog of former biotech scientist)
- Science in School s a non-profit activity, part of the NUCLEUS project supported by the European Union
- NASA Educational Resources
  - Optics: Light, Color and Their Uses Educator Gui
- American Physical Society
  - Physics Central
  - American Physical Society Education Program
  - Physics to Go (Collection of more than 600 websites) Browse under Light
- American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Teaching Resources
- Physical Sciences Resource Center for Optics
- American Museum of Natural History Resources for Learning
  - White Light and Colored Light
  - Building a Spectroscope
    - This project was originated by Alan Schwab at UW-Milwaukee.
  - Light Quest (Trivia Game)
- GEOSET at FSU. The purpose of this site is to empower teachers by giving them access to the best teaching materials and presentation techniques garnered worldwide, packaged for almost immediate use in the classroom.
Nano Resources
- NNIN Education
Industrial Education and Outreach
- IBM Local Education and Outreach
- Intel Education Initiative
Educational Information
- Information on US State Education Standards (a developing collection of information on state standards)
Possible Problems with Solid-State Lighting
- Blue LED Backlash
- Blue LEDs: A Health Risk?
Trade Journal Information on Solid-State Lighting
General Project Sources that Include LED Applications
- Evil Mad Scientist
  - Dark Detecting Circuit (a night light)
  - LED Throwies which is an Instructables page.
- Instructables Once on this page, do a search on LED for many other projects.
- Electronics Club
  - Light Emitting Diodes (good general information)
  - Flashing LED and Dummy Alarm
  - Traffic Light and Lighthouse
  - Christmas Decoration and Random Flasher
SSL Social Engineering - Challenges to Smart Lighting Engineers & Scientists
- Light Up The World Foundation
- Engineers Without Borders
SSL and LED Companies
- CREE
- Redwood Systems (Controlled LED Lighting Systems)
- Agoura Technologies (Light Recycling Polarizers) Their white paper on wire grid polarizers is informative.
- MERL (Mistubishi Electric Research Lab) Many projects that utilize LEDs. Some examples:
  - LED Chemical Sensors Technical Reports 1 2
  - LED Communication
- NXP Many Application Notes
- labsphere Many good Technical Documents especially on sensing and spectroscopy
Remote Sensing (Contains much relevant background info)
- Intro to Remote Sensing for Science Teachers
- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (256 page tutorial from the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
Online Student Project Reports from Many Organizations
- LED's as Light Detectors (Tanya Sansosti, Stony Brook)

selection Notable Items - These are especially worth looking at. Video Content Audio Content

(1) Relative Intensity vs. Wavelength (LEDTRONICS) (2) Example of LED Radiation Pattern (Maxim-IC)

Intensity vs Wavelength Radiation Pattern

Updated 9 April, 2017

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