Sessions
Seeing UGR Clearly: A Study on Background and Application Use of UGR
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sat
Jim Gaines has worked on SSL topics since 2000, both in Philips Research and in Signify (formerly Philips) Lighting. Since August, 2010, he has worked for Signify in Burlington MA (Color Kinetics location), on topics including business-to-government relations and standardization activities associated with LED lighting, as well as support for the launching of Signify LED-based products in the US. Prior to that, he worked for Philips Lighting/Advance Transformer Company in Chicago, from January 2004 � August 2010 on LED module product development. He wrote two successful proposals for DOE-funded R&D projects on SSL topics, which he also led as principal investigator. From 2000-2004, he worked as technical project leader in Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor on fundamental technology for LED modules, including RGB color mixing, feedback systems for color control, and optics.
He worked for 15+ years in Philips Research Laboratories (1988-2004), both in the Netherlands and in New York, on topics including MBE of II/VI materials for blue/green lasers, MBE of oxide materials for magnetic thin-film devices, rare-earth permanent magnet materials and LED lighting systems (as described above). He also spent three years on Philips� Corporate Research Bureau, a group responsible for processes associated with management of Philips� Research Program.
Jim Gaines received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1986. He spent two years in a postdoctoral position, in Herbert Kroemer�s group at the University of California in Santa Barbara, where he worked on III/V semiconductor heterostructures, grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).