On July 12 and 13, 2010, experts from across the solar and infrared IR photovoltaics and light emitting diode LED disciplines met to review and discuss recent progress and future trends . The rapidly advancing fields of photonic materials and devices were discussed at the 2010 International Symposium on Optoelectronic Materials and Devices.
The symposium was jointly organized by the Quantum-functional Semiconductor Research Center of Dongguk University, the Microphysics Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Chicago UIC and Sivananthan Laboratories . It was held and successfully concluded at the Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile Hotel in Chicago.
Leading scientists from various government agencies, universities and industry presented recent advances on solar cells, IR devices and LEDs . The talks included thin film solar cells, very high efficiency tandem solar cells, heteroepitaxial growth and antimonide- and HgCdTe-based infrared sensors.
The symposium featured two plenary speaker; Martha Symko Davies of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL and Minh Le of the Solar Energy Technologies Program at the U.S. Department of Energy.
The year's symposium was 7th in the series and the second consecutive symposium held in Chicago, said Yesim Anter, Project Coordinator of the Microphysics Laboratory. Anter added The goal of this symposium was to bring together a small group of distinguished members of the optoelectronic materials society to interact with each other and listen to the exciting developments in their respective fields first hand. Furthermore, the symposium provided a great opportunity for many students and faculty to do networking with these renowned speakers.
