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Everything about Luminance
Photometric measure
Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. It describes the amount of light that passes through, is emitted from, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: LuminanceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Highly Robust CuI‐TADF Emitters for Vacuum‐Deposited OLEDs with Luminance up to 222 200 cd m−2 and Device Lifetimes (LT90) up to 1300 hours at an Initial Luminance of 1000 cd m−2Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Freak the MightyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Chromaticity diagram showing cone excitation by stimuli of equal luminanceCited 804 times
- Go sideways: IlluminanceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: EtendueA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The quality of being luminous.
Noun The amount of light that passes through, is emitted, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
Noun The luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction (i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area), measured in stilbs or apostilbs.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Chromaticity diagram showing cone excitation by stimuli of equal luminance
All-weather model for sky luminance distribution—Preliminary configuration and validation
The field topography of ERG components in man—I. The photopic luminance response
Distributed and Overlapping Cerebral Representations of Number, Size, and Luminance during Comparative Judgments
Human luminance pattern-vision mechanisms: masking experiments require a new model
Intrinsic luminance loss in phosphorescent small-molecule organic light emitting devices due to bimolecular annihilation reactions
Neural correlates of attentive selection for color or luminance in extrastriate area V4
Luminance and opponent-color contributions to visual detection and adaptation and to temporal and spatial integration
🆕 Influential since 2022
Highly Robust CuI‐TADF Emitters for Vacuum‐Deposited OLEDs with Luminance up to 222 200 cd m−2 and Device Lifetimes (LT90) up to 1300 hours at an Initial Luminance of 1000 cd m−2
Superhigh-Luminance Ce:YAG Phosphor in Glass and Phosphor-in-Glass Film for Laser Lighting
A Spacer Cation Assisted Nucleation and Growth Strategy Enables Efficient and High‐Luminance Quasi‐2D Perovskite LEDs
Near-unity blue luminance from lead-free copper halides for light-emitting diodes
Generation-Based Joint Luminance-Chrominance Learning for Underwater Image Quality Assessment
📚 Books worth reading
Freak the MightyW. R. Philbrick, Rodman Philbrick · 1989
When the Sea Turned to SilverGrace Lin · 2016- 📕Micro-optic color separation technology for efficient projection displaysW. J. Gunning · 1997
Physics of luminous blue variablesInternational Astronomical Union. Colloquium · 1899
Fitz H. LaneJames A. Craig · 2006- 📕P Cygni 2000, 400 years of progressP Cygni 2000 Workshop (2000 Armagh, Northern Ireland) · 2001
- 📕A clear viewSarah Polden · 1987
- 📕BrascoliteLuminous Unit Company · 1910
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