We compared how contrast adaptation influences three alternative measures of luminous efficiency. Subjects judged the lightness, the flicker, or the motion of chromatic sine-wave gratings. Adaptation to gratings with correlated luminance and chromatic contrast strongly biases lightness matches and moderately biases minimum-motion settings for gratings that are counterphased at 1 Hz, but it has ...

After decades of research and development, plasma displays are finally beginning to appear in the commercial and consumer markets. Following a short review on the basic principles of direct and alternating current plasma displays, we present a summary of the status of color plasma displays. Plasma display panels (PDPs) have finally achieved luminance and efficiency values on par with hi-definit...

This study introduces a long-pass dichroic filter (LPDF) on top of a phosphor-converted LED (pc-LED) packing associated with each corresponding tunable orthosilicate ((Ba,Sr)2SiO4:Eu) phosphor in order to fabricate tunable green pc-LEDs. These LPDF-capped green pc-LEDs provide luminous efficacies between 143–173 lm/W at 60 mA in a wavelength range between 515 and 560 nm. These tunable green pc-...

This paper applies genetic algorithms (GAs), a powerful general-purpose biologically motivated optimization technique, to the multi-objective problem of spectrum optimization. Two objectives, color and efficiency, are address using real spectra, although the addition of other objectives (e.g., color rendering, color temperature) is relatively straightforward. The direct application of the metho...

We propose a new luminosity function, V ð1Þ, that improves upon the original CIE 1924 Vð1Þ function and its modification by D. B. Judd (1951) and J. J. Vos (1978), while being consistent with a linear combination of the A. Stockman & L. T. Sharpe (2000) long-wavelength-sensitive (L) and middle-wavelength-sensitive (M) cone fundamentals. It is based on experimentally determined 25 Hz, 2diameter,...

The effect of applying auxiliary pulses to the address electrode during the sustain period on the discharge characteristics of an AC plasma display panel was investigated. When auxiliary pulses of IOOV and 250wIz were applied to the address electrode during the sustain period, the maximum sustain. voltage was found to decrease by 14% while the minimum sustain voltage increased by 15% when compa...

Of all the functions that define visual performance, the mesopic luminous efficiency function is probably the most complex and hardest to standardise or model. Complexities arise because of the substantial and often rapid visual changes that accompany the transition from scotopic to photopic vision. These are caused not only by the switch from rod to cone photoreceptors, but also by switches be...

A series of new bipolar solution-processable RGB materials are designed by considering the solubility, morphology, fluorescence efficiency and carriers balance. Solution-processable OLEDs are fabricated with high efficiencies, especially, the green TCBzC-based device shows the maximum luminous efficiency of 31.6 cd A(-1), which is among the best reported values.