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Book review Light Sources, Technologies and Applications . Edited by S. Kitsinelis . Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, a Taylor and Francis Book , 2011 , 226 pp. $129.95; ISBN: 978‐1‐4398‐2079‐7 JÁNOS SCHANDA. Light Sources, Technologies and Applications . By S. Kitsinelis. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, a Taylor and Francis Book, 2011, 226 pp. $129.95; ISBN: 978‐1‐4398‐2079‐7. Spiros Kitsinelis tried to update the excellent but now slightly aged book by Coaton and Marsden: Lamps and Lighting (the fourth edition was published in 1997). Unfortunately, the author did not succeed in this completely. It seems that technology moves faster as can be followed by such a book. Interesting that a book published in 2011 still states that light emitting diodes (LEDs) “have currently limited applications” (p. 128). The book contains many nice pictures of different lamp types and applications, some times perhaps even too many and slightly redundant pictures (see e.g., two astronomic pictures just to illustrate that occurrence of plasmas in the Universe). As university teacher, your reviewer is always irritated if he reads terms like ultraviolet light or stating the unit of energy as W/m 2 . Obviously, in a hasty publishing phase, the publisher had not enough time to ask for a proper scientific editing of a manuscript written by a non‐English speaking author, to check consistency of images and captions (e.g., Fig. 5.20, where the caption promises information on lifetime and flux, but curves show only relative luminous flux). Some interesting subsections are included, which deal with electrocandoluminescence and microdischargers that are not covered in many similar books. Readers, who do not have access to more comprehensive literature, can gain first insight to light source technologies by reading this book. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Color Research & Application Wiley

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Schanda, János
Color Research & Application , Volume 37 (4) – Aug 1, 2012
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Wiley
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Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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0361-2317
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1520-6378
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10.1002/col.21746
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Light Sources, Technologies and Applications . Edited by S. Kitsinelis . Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, a Taylor and Francis Book , 2011 , 226 pp. $129.95; ISBN: 978‐1‐4398‐2079‐7 JÁNOS SCHANDA. Light Sources, Technologies and Applications . By S. Kitsinelis. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, a Taylor and Francis Book, 2011, 226 pp. $129.95; ISBN: 978‐1‐4398‐2079‐7. Spiros Kitsinelis tried to update the excellent but now slightly aged book by Coaton and Marsden: Lamps and Lighting (the fourth edition was published in 1997). Unfortunately, the author did not succeed in this completely. It seems that technology moves faster as can be followed by such a book. Interesting that a book published in 2011 still states that light emitting diodes (LEDs) “have currently limited applications” (p. 128). The book contains many nice pictures of different lamp types and applications, some times perhaps even too many and slightly redundant pictures (see e.g., two astronomic pictures just to illustrate that occurrence of plasmas in the Universe). As university teacher, your reviewer is always irritated if he reads terms like ultraviolet light or stating the unit of energy as W/m 2 . Obviously, in a hasty publishing phase, the publisher had not enough time to ask for a proper scientific editing of a manuscript written by a non‐English speaking author, to check consistency of images and captions (e.g., Fig. 5.20, where the caption promises information on lifetime and flux, but curves show only relative luminous flux). Some interesting subsections are included, which deal with electrocandoluminescence and microdischargers that are not covered in many similar books. Readers, who do not have access to more comprehensive literature, can gain first insight to light source technologies by reading this book.

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