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Registration and Continental Breakfast
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ashli Speed, Senior Conference Producer, Smithers
Session I: State of the Industry- OLEDs, Phosphors, and Quantum Dots
Quantum Dots: Making the quantum leap from displays to the markets of the future
In this keynote address, we will explore the dynamic growth trajectory of quantum dot (QD) technology in the display industry. MiniLED technology is emerging as a significant catalyst, poised to surpass OLED in the television market and making substantial inroads into the automotive sector. As the ongoing competition between LCD and OLED displays intensifies, how will emissive QD displays fit into the display story? Beyond displays, quantum dots are set to revolutionize various other sectors. We'll highlight emerging markets for QD applications such as agriculture, solar energy, and pigments, demonstrating the unique value QDs bring to each market. This discussion will offer a preview of the insights and innovations that speakers throughout the event will expand upon. Finally, we will discuss how the newly scaled-up QD production capabilities enable broader adoption of QD technology. Nanosys' parent company, Shoei Chemical, is akin to the TSMC of the QD industry, offering large-scale foundry manufacturing for partners with novel QD designs and delivering innovative solutions for new QD markets. We will highlight our new fabrication facility in Itoshima, Japan, featuring state-of-the-art, thousands-of-liter reactors, underscoring our commitment to meeting growing demand and fostering innovation for both internal development and external partnerships. Join us to gain a comprehensive understanding of the present and future landscape of QD technology, from display advancements to groundbreaking applications across diverse industries.
Jeff Yurek | VP Marketing, Nanosys
Display Market and Technology Outlook for QD OLED and QLED TVs and monitors
Display Market and Technology Outlook - This talk will examine the latest results, forecasts and technology trends in all major display applications.  It will look at the major technology trends within each application and forecast each segment in units, revenues, area as well as display technology share.  
Bob O'Brien | Co-Founder and President, Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC)
UDC: Illuminating the Energy-Efficient OLED Landscape
  As the consumer electronics sector continues to expand, and IoT, 5G, and AI technologies advance and proliferate, energy efficiency in OLED displays has increasingly taken center stage. In this presentation, we will delve into UDC’s pioneering contributions to the innovation, development, and commercialization of phosphorescent OLED materials and technologies for energy-efficient display and lighting applications. We will explore how UDC’s advancements can bolster and broaden the ongoing adoption of OLEDs across the consumer electronics domain, encompassing devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, laptops, computer monitors, TVs, automotive displays, lighting applications, and beyond. UDC is committed to being a key enabler in the OLED ecosystem, leveraging our extensive experience, proprietary technologies, and energy-efficient phosphorescent material systems to support our customers and the industry’s growth.We will also outline our innovation roadmap for display efficiency, emphasizing ultra-low power consumption. Our significant enhancements in efficiency and performance are poised to enable new product applications for OLED technology, thereby expanding the market. Beyond displays, we will also discuss how OLEDs serve as an excellent light source for red light therapy, a rapidly growing field in the treatment of a wide range of health conditions.
 
Dr. Mike Hack | VP of Business Development, Universal Display Corporation
Networking Break
Displays for AR and VR: Is There a Role for us All?
This panel will explore the requirements and display options for both augmented reality and virtual reality applications.  We will then look closely for opportunities for QDs , phosphors, and OLEDs to impact these displays.  
  • which light engine is the best for AR/VR
  • a comparative look, cost performance etc.
Advisory Board Panel
Networking Lunch
Development of Ink Jet Printing Quantum Dots Light Emitting Diodes for Display Application
Quantum dots light emitting diodes(QLEDs), have been widely recognized as the most promising next-generation display technology candidate. At current stage, the blue lifetime issue of QLEDs and the performance gap between spin-coating and IJP devices remains the critical challange towards commercialization. Meanwhile, for mass-production of QLEDs, other issues also need to be addressed. In this presentation, the development of TCL’s IJP QLEDs for display application would be introduced, and the main challanges towards commercialization would be discussed.  
Dr. Longjia Wu | Materials Development Expert, TCL Corporate Research
Session II: MicroLED
Smart Multifunctional Lighting Based on Phosphor and MicroLED
MicroLED and Phosphor can offer high efficiency, low thermal, thin form factor and reliable lighting for several applications including automotive, architectural and more. In addition, the lights can be transparent and so make it easier to integrated in the applications. VueReal has worked on several key technology to advance these products and offer extra functionalities.
Reza Chaji | CEO, VueReal
Towards first commercial microLED products based on Cd-free QD color conversion
MicroLED displays offer exceptional brightness, contrast, and viewing angles, but achieving a full color gamut with current microLED technology remains a challenge. While Quantum Dots (QDs) are widely used for color conversion in LCD and OLED displays, compliant solutions haven’t been commercially adopted for microLEDs. This paper addresses this critical gap by exploring the roadblocks to Cd-free QD color conversion (QDCC) in microLEDs. We showcase QustomDot’s advancements in developing RoHS-compliant QD ink-jet inks specifically designed to overcome these technological and industrialization hurdles. By enabling efficient and scalable QDCC, our approach paves the way for the realization of next-generation microLED display applications.
 
Dr. Igor Nakonechnyi | CTO, QustomDot BV
High Optical Density Inorganic QD Photoresist for MicroLED Displays
    Quantum dot microLED displays are very attractive due to the ease of fabrication for both the LEDs themselves as well as simplifying the drivers.  Indium phosphide quantum dots are preferred by many display designers for RoHS compliance, however the low absorption strength of InP makes it challenging to achieve the required optical density and external quantum efficiency in the thin layers required for small microLED pixels.  NanoPattern has developed high optical density inorganic QD photoresist to simultaneously achieve the necessary optical properties and patterning resolution to enable InP quantum-dot converted microLEDs down to 5 um pixel resolution.
Danielle Chamberlin | CTO, NanoPattern Technologies
MicroLED Displays Based on UV Pumped Cd-free QDs
       Applied Materials innovated a display technology with UV pumped Cd-free QDs.  This simplified color conversion approach has numerous advantages and some of them are single source of UV microLEDs with efficient mass transfer and no need for color filters.  This requires R/G/B QDs and we have been successful in creating inkjettable acrylic formulations with good performance.  Inkjetting could help reduce the cost of the display potentially as QDs are expensive in general.  A blanket UV blocker coating helps to contain any unabsorbed UV by QDs.  We will discuss the QD formulations, lifetime of Cd-free QDs and processes associated with it towards the smartwatch display.
Dr. Sivapackia (Gana) Ganapathiappan | Director Advanced Technology Group, Office of the CTO, Applied Materials
Networking Mixer
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ashli Speed, Senior Conference Producer, Smithers
Session III: Novel Applications
Painting with Light: Revolutionizing Color with Quantum Pigments
For at least 64,000 years, humans have been passionate about creating pigments to decorate their surroundings and express their inner world. From using soot to decorate caves to the height of the Renaissance, when a blue that was mined in the ancient quarries of Afghanistan cost more than gold, pigments have been intrinsic to the human experience. Now we are finally able to harness the extraordinary power of quantum confinement to create the pigments of the future: quantum pigments.
 
Olga Alexopoulou | Co-Founder and Head of Color, Quantum Light
Quantum Dots are Quietly Breaking Out in Food and Energy
On the heels of closing its Series B with a leading VC in advanced materials, UbiQD is seeing rapid growth and traction in emerging quantum dot applications in greenhouses and solar energy. In this presentation, Hunter McDaniel, UbiQD Founder and CEO, will highlight three key examples of how quantum dots are being deployed into 100x larger (by area) markets than display. Specifically, Hunter will highlight a new partnership with the largest solar module manufacturer (First Solar), a new strategic relationship with one of the largest greenhouse growers globally (>100M ft2) on its award winning UbiGro Cover, and a recently completed largest solar window installation (more than 100 window units). In addition to being larger area than display markets, the deployment of QDs is up to 5x higher in these applications, signaling hypergrowth ahead for quantum dot demand. As we look to the future, quantum dots are finding more and more compelling applications, and we UbiQD expects 2025 to be a breakout year for QD.
 
Hunter McDaniel, Ph.D. | Founder and CEO, UbiQD, Inc.
Enhancing Spatial and Temporal Resolution in Event Classification for Professional Sports using Advanced Sensing Technologies and NIR Down-Converting Quantum Dots and Phosphors.
Traditional CMOS and CCD-based sensors often face significant limitations in spatial and temporal resolution when applied to event classification in professional sports. While LIDAR technology offers the potential for depth-of-field mapping, it remains constrained by a spatial resolution of several centimeters and a temporal resolution of 10-30Hz. This presentation explores integrating down-converting materials, including InAs and CuInS quantum dots as well as copper silicate and Cr3 phosphors, with a NIR-sensitized photomultiplier sensor. This innovative approach achieves positional accuracy better than 1 cm and a temporal resolution of 1 microsecond, presenting a significant advancement in the precise and rapid classification of sporting events.
 
Matthew Bertram | Vice President Active Tracking Technology, SMT
QD Photodetectors Market and Technology Outlook
The QD photodetector and image sensor market is still in formation and the industry has been re-shaped in recent months. In this presentation, we will review the state of image sensor technology, the markets that are being targeted with their challenges, and the actors in the supply chain from raw QD to cameras. We will also provide some perspectives on the path ahead for QD-based photodetectors.
Andras Pattantyus-Abraham | Founder, Best QD Solutions LLC
Networking Break
Session IV: Innovation
Super-high brightness laser-driven light sources
•Mechanisms of luminance saturation under high-power density excitation
•Design and preparation of laser phosphors or color converters
•Applications of laser-driven light sources
 
Rong-Jun Xie | Professor, College of Materials, Xiamen University (China)
General lighting, the choice between direct emitter or converter
In many applications we have to choose between using direct emission from a semiconductor or using a phosphor to convert (blue) light to the color needed. I will give several examples, e.g.:
      • The quest for higher efficiency: direct RGB emitters have theoretically the highest efficiency, but in practice not. So in practice white, phosphor-converted LEDs are used today. The major efficiency gain still possible for those LEDs would be in optimizing the spectrum: I will give example spectra. It means we need better narrow green and red phosphors
      • Melanotic light for stimulating circadian rhythm: we developed specific LEDs for that, with a high intensity in the cyan. We chose to use a direct cyan emitter since with phosphor we could not achieve the same performance – a possible challenge for phosphor development

Dr. René T. Wegh | Principal Scientist, Signify Research
Networking Lunch
Changes to the RoHS Cadmium Exemption and the Impact on QD Technology
For over a decade there has been an exemption in place in the EU under the Restrictions of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) for cadmium in displays to allow for the use of Cd-containing quantum dots to enhance the viewing experience. There have been many changes over that time, and with new wording recently adopted in 2024, the exemption will continue, in part, through 2027. This presentation will summarize the history of the RoHS Cadmium exemption and explain how new wording will impact current and future development of display technologies such as QDEF films, QD-OLED, microLED and EL-QLED.
Peter Palomaki, Ph.D. | Owner, Chief Scientist, Palomaki Consulting, LLC
Nano-engineered narrow-band phosphors for LED applications
Narrow-band line-emitter phosphors offer improved lm/W for white LEDs, while maintaining high CRI. Especially Eu3+-doped phosphors are ideal from an emitter perspective. However, using Eu3+ for practical LEDs is hampered by the lack of absorption in the blue spectral region. To solve this problem, we have developed nano-engineered phosphors harvesting interparticle energy transfer (IFRET), an innovative approach to sensitize Eu3+, and other ions, in the blue spectral range. In this presentation, we will share our progress on our IFRET materials, as well as demonstrate high-quality (high QY and small-size) nano-YAG phosphors.
 
Dr. Marie Anne van de Haar | Program Director Materials, Seaborough Research
High Color Rendering in Lighting and Display Applications- KSF and other Red Emitters
KSF Technology delivers enhanced red luminescence, offering exceptional performance for both display and general lighting applications. In display technology, KSF enables a wider color gamut, while in illumination, it ensures high efficiency and accurate color rendering of illuminated areas and objects. This presentation will explore recent advancements in KSF red luminescent materials, as well as alternative red luminescent solutions, highlighting their potential to improve display quality and lighting efficiency.
Bill Cohen, Ph.D. | Vice President and General Manager, Current Chemicals
Conference Concludes: Final Thoughts from Advisory Board