September 14-15, 2021
Online
After careful consideration, the decision has been made to transition this year's Phosphors & Quantum Dots Industry Forum, previously scheduled to take place in San Francisco, California, to a fully virtual event that will take place online this September 14-15, 2021.
As the only industry event that truly unites the quantum dot and phosphors communities in support of continued commercial advancement, the 2021 Phosphors & Quantum Dots Industry Forum will return in a virtual format - offering attendees a welcoming and collaborative meeting place to make important connections, explore new opportunities, share ideas, and prepare for the future of this rapidly evolving and vibrant marketplace.
Widely recognized as the global "intersection of academia and industry", this comprehensive, one of a kind conference features an agenda designed to offer attendees a unique balance of industry hot topics, technical research, and commercial innovations; uniting leading experts from all stages of development and all aspects of the luminescent materials value chain.
Attendees of this year's online conference will also gain full access to all content from the OLEDs World Summit, allowing you to tailor your conference experience to align with your current projects and fit your current current business needs. All presentations will be made available for on-demand viewing within the event platform, allowing you to revisit content and view any presentations that you may have missed during the event.
The Hubilo platform provides a highly interactive experience, offering the ability to schedule one-to-one meetings, and engage in real-time chat and discussion groups, plus much more.
Juanita Kurtin is Director of Materials Research for OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. Prior to 2018, Dr. Kurtin was the CTO and co-founder of Pacific Light Technologies (PLT), an Oregon start-up company delivering high quality nanomaterials to the solid-state lighting and display markets in order to increase LED efficiency and brightness. She has a background in the research of nanomaterials for various device applications, including transistors, solar cells, and light emitting diodes.
Prior to founding PLT, Dr. Kurtin was the VP of R&D at SpectraWatt, a solar cell manufacturing company, and also spent six years developing new device architectures at Intel.
Dr. Kurtin obtained her BS degree in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, studying with quantum dot pioneer Dr. Paul Alivisatos.
Jason Hartlove joined Nanosys in 2008 with a proven track record of turning emerging technologies into successful commercial products. He previously developed the Optical Mouse which has sold more than one billion units worldwide and is a standard feature in all PCs. Hartlove also pioneered and developed key technologies used in CMOS image sensors in smartphone cameras, high capacity lithium-ion battery technologies and solid-state inverter technology used in solar and electric car charging systems.
His vision for Nanosys has led the company to successfully pioneer and develop Quantum Dot based display technologies. Today, Nanosys maintains a nearly 100% market share for materials used in these ultra-bright displays with lifelike colors sold by companies including Samsung, Vizio, Hisense, TCL, Acer, Asus and Sharp.
Prior to joining Nanosys, he was president of the Imaging Solutions Division of MagnaChip Semiconductor in Seoul, South Korea, where he turned an internally focused semiconductor group into a multinational company on track for an IPO. Before MagnaChip, Hartlove was vice president and general manager of the Sensor Solutions Division of Agilent Technologies, and previously held management and development positions at Hewlett-Packard.
Sjoerd has fifteen years of experience in business development, R&D, and management of scientific research projects in the fields of nanotechnology, photovoltaics, photonics, and photodetectors leveraging extensive laboratory experience in industry and research institutes. He was the Principal Scientist and Manager of R&D at InVisage Technologies Inc., a quantum dot-based imaging product company sold to Apple Inc. in 2017. He was the Director of Research, Technology and Innovation at the University of Toronto. He was awarded a Top 50 Scientific Discoveries by NSERC for the development of a solution-processed infrared laser. Sjoerd has an MSC in physics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a PhD in laser physics from the University of Southampton. He has authored over 160 scientific publications and 10 patents.
Khaled Ahmed is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel. Dr. Ahmed joined Intel in 2015 and previously worked at Intermolecular, Applied Materials, Conexant Systems, and Advanced Micro Devices. He has 125+ patents (pending and granted) in areas such as semiconductor equipment, thin films, device metrology, light emitting diodes, thin film transistors, microdevice transfer technology, laser speckle reduction, and metasurface optical elements. Dr. Ahmed earned BSc and MSc degrees Ain Shams University, and Doctor of Philosophy degree from North Carolina State University, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Ahmed currently leads the definition of industry leading disruptive display technologies including micro LED displays. Dr. Ahmed is a recipient of the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Mahboob Khan Best Industry Liaison Award in 2012. Khaled serves on the technical program committee of Display Week, the premier display technology conference. He is a senior member of the IEEE. Khaled was a visiting scholar at the Penn State University, University of California San Diego, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Southern California. He collaborated with several university research groups at Purdue University, IIT Bombay, Technion, University of California San Diego, US Santa Barbara, and the Penn State University.
Willem Walravens is CTO and Founder of QustomDot, an advanced materials start-up that produces on-chip grade and cadmium-free quantum dots. In addition, QustomDot assists customers to successfully integrate quantum dots in devices.
Dr. Cohen joined the lighting division of General Electric after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He has developed a variety of experiences through roles of increasing responsibility in Technology, Manufacturing, and Business Operations that include phosphors and specialty materials development, lighting product design and manufacturing, tungsten wire processing, and commercial sales of phosphors and specialty materials. Dr. Cohen has significant operational experience built on various key roles over nine years in manufacturing including Plant Manager of GE Lighting’s Phosphor and Specialty Chemical Facility. He led GE Lighting’s technical efforts to mitigate rare earth supply and inflation pressures through phosphor innovation, lighting product redesign, and production process optimization for fluorescent lighting products.
Transitioning from traditional lighting materials to LED materials, Dr. Cohen led GE Lighting’s PFS/KSF Red Phosphor innovation, process/manufacturing development, and sales/commercialization activities. After GE’s sale of its commercial lighting business to American Industrial Partners in 2019, he continues as the business leader of the specialty Chemicals and Materials group of Current Lighting Solutions, LLC focused on technical innovation and profitable commercial growth of phosphors and other specialty materials.
GE Current, a Daintree Company is the digital engine for intelligent environments. Current blends advanced LED technology with networked sensors and software to make commercial buildings, retail stores, industrial facilities and cities more energy efficient & productive. Backed by a broad ecosystem of technology partners, Current is helping businesses and cities unlock hidden value and realize the potential of their environments.
With more than 100 years of specialty chemicals manufacturing experience stemming from Current’s days as part of GE, Current continues to innovate in the development of phosphors. Current’s patented RadiantRed™ Technology enables lighting products with best-in-class color and efficiency at 90 CRI with R9 > 90 while meeting the recommended color performance requirements of TM-30…all without sacrificing efficiency. The technology is also enhancing many LED-backlit displays sold in the market by enabling the richest, most vibrant red color available on LED.
The key to RadiantRed™ Technology is fluoride phosphors activated with Mn4+ (PFS/KSF) to generate enhanced high color fidelity / wide-color-gamut solutions – all without sacrificing brightness or efficiency. Our TriGain™ PFS/KSF phosphor delivers high absorption with improved reliability compared to standard PFS/KSF phosphors.
Visit www.geradiantred.com and www.gecurrent.com to learn more.
Light has been changing our world throughout history. Employees at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (OS) are working together day after day to continue this process of change, developing the light of the future – light that will make our world easier, safer, more sustainable and more exciting. The success of the company is based on the intelligence and passion of its employees at its various sites around the globe. Where innovation meets passion the company ensures that the light of tomorrow becomes the reality of today – with the excellence expected of a world market leader.
The product portfolio ranges from precision optical sensors for health monitoring to breathtaking stage lighting with LEDs and laser light – and from infrared lasers for autonomous driving to special LEDs for healthy plant growth. Osram Opto Semiconductors is a market leader in optical semiconductors and one of the major drivers of innovation in illumination, sensor systems and visualization.
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is part of OSRAM Americas, a group of OSRAM companies located in North and South America.
