Phosphor Global Summit 2011

Dates Announced for Phosphor Global Summit 2012!

Phosphor Global Summit 2012 will take place March 20-22, 2012, at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Ariz. Be sure to bookmark this site and check back frequently for program updates.

If you were unable to attend Phosphor Global Summit 2011, you missed:

• More than 20 presentations from industry leaders on the advancement of phosphors technology and applications
• Two full days of pre-conference seminars
• A look at the global rare earth supply chain and how it is being impacted by recent changes in China
• The opportunity to network with your peers in the phosphors industry

Conference proceedings will be available for purchase soon! If you would like to order your copy of the presentations, contact John Buss at +1 202 309 7296.

Here's a sampling of what 2011 attendees had to say about our pre-conference seminars:

"(The seminar) really provides a good entry to the user who always only look at the final product properties without much understanding of the physics behind it."

"A nice overview of fundamentals mixed with practical approaches. A chance to learn from experts in the field."

"Gives a good introduction to anyone new to the field of phosphors."

2011 Phosphor Global Summit Agenda

(Please check back often for updates. Last updated March 17.)

Topics at this year's conference are designed to cover the top issues and trends in phosphors, from supply chains to manufacturing to applications. Some of the agenda highlights include presentations on:

• The Challenges for Lighting Phosphors in a Resource Limited Environment
• Physics and Applications of Afterglow Phosphors
• The Use of Spray Pyrolysis for the Manufacturing of Unique Multi-Phase Phosphor Materials
• Rare Earth Doped Materials for Quantum Information Processing
• Future Challenges for LED and Phosphor

Tuesday, March 22

8:00	Seminar Registration
8:30 - 12:00 pm	Pre-Conference Seminar 1: Fundamental Concepts of Luminescence Spectroscopy/Basics of white LED phosphors	Andries Meijerink, Professor, UNIVERSITY UTRECHT and Hajime Yamamoto, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
1:00	Seminar Registration
1:30 - 5:00 pm	Pre-Conference Seminar 2: Designing Luminescent Materials/Energy Flow in Luminescent Materials Excited by High Energy Radiation	Alok Srivastava, Researcher, GE and Cees Ronda, Research Fellow, Research Group Light Generation, PHILIPS TECHNOLOGIE GMBH

Wednesday, March 23

8:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50	Opening remarks from Conference Co-Chairs	Kathryn Conway, Principal, LED CONSULTING and Thomas Juestel, Professor, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES MUENSTER
	Session 1: Overview of the Markets and Materials Available
9:00	Challenges for Lighting Phosphors ina Resource Limited Environment	Steven Deutsch, Business Development and Marketing Manager, RHODIA RARE EARTH BUSINESS - NORTH AMERICA
9:30	Global Rare Earth Supply Chains GettingTheirLegs	Pierre Neatby, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, AVALON RARE METALS INC
	Session 2: Trends towards Novel Luminescent Materials
10:00	The Manipulation of Air-Sensitive Compounds in Industry	Mark A. Drezdzon, Principal Scientist, WILLIAMS ADVANCED MATERIALS - CERAC DIVISION
10:30	Morning Refreshments and Networking Break
11:00	Development of Novel Nitridic Materials and Their Applications as Phosphor Converters	H. Jürgen Meyer, Full Professor of Chemistry, UNIVERSITY OF TUBINGEN
11:30	Phosphors for Blue and Violet LED Systems	Anant Setlur, Materials Scientist, GE GLOBAL RESEARCH
12:00	Ceramic Laser Materials for Projection Applications of Lasers	Ulrich Weichmann, Senior Scientist, Light Generation Group, PHILIPS TECHNOLOGIE GMBH
12:30	Lunch will be served for speakers and attendees
1:30	The Use of Spray Pyrolysis for the Manufacturing of Unique Multi-phase Phosphor Materials	Pascal Pinceloup, Senior Scientist, CABOT CORPORATION
2:00	Strategies for Achieving High Quality, Efficient and Economical Lighting Using Luminescent Organic Materials and Novel Device Architectures	Max Shtein, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
	Session 3: Role of Defects and Persistent Luminescence
2:30	Phosphorescence and Luminescence of Eu2+ Doped Aluminates and Aluminosilicates	Stéphane Jobic, Professor, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, UNIVERSITE DE NANTES, CNRS
3:00	Afternoon Refreshments and Networking Break
3:30	Physics and Applications of Afterglow Phosphors	Philippe Smet, Professor, LumiLab, Department of Solid State Sciences, GHENT UNIVERSITY
4:00	Oxyfluoride Materials -Basic Chemistry and Opportunities as Phosphors	Tom Vogt, Director of the NanoCenter, Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
4:30	Poster Session and Networking reception

Thursday, March 24

8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:30	Opening Remarks from Conference Co-Chairs	Kathryn Conway, Principal, LED CONSULTING and Thomas Juestel, Professor, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES MUENSTER
	Session 4: Phosphors as the Basis of Future Lighting
8:40	The End of the Lamp as We Know It	Kathryn M. Conway, Principal, LED Consulting
9:10	Future Challenges for LED and Phosphor	Kirstin Petersen, Material Innovation, OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
9:40	Morning Refreshments and Networking Break
10:00	Color Quality Measurement of Phosphor-Based Sources for General Illumination	Wendy Davis, Vision Scientist, Optical Technology Division, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST)
10:30	Innovative Phosphor Solutions for LED Backlighting and General Lighting	Dinesh Bettadapur, VP of Worldwide Business Development for Phosphor Materials, INTEMATIX
	Session 5: Developments in Ceramic LED Phosphors
11:00	Selection of PhosphorMaterials and Technologies for LED Applications	Oleg Shchekin, Director, Phosphor Materials and Devices, Technology Research and Development, PHILIPS LUMILEDS LIGHTING
11:30	Ceramic and Glass Ceramic Phosphors for White LED	Setsuhisa Tanabe, Professor, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
12:00	Eu3+ Activated Molybdates and Tungstates - Potential Color Converters for pcLEDs?	Dominik Uhlich, Head of Product Development, TAILORLUX GMBH
12:30	Lunch will be served for speakers and attendees
	Session 6: Phosphors Moving towards Novel Horizons
1:30	Rare Earth Doped Materials for QuantumInformation Processing	Philippe Goldner, Professor, CNRS Senior Researcher, CHIMIE PARISTECH
2:00	Laser Phosphor Display (LPD): Introduction toLPD Technology and its Advantages	Roger Hajjar, Chief Technology Office and Founder, PRYSM INC
2:30	Novel Scintillators	Cees Ronda, Research Fellow, Research group Light Generation, PHILIPS TECHNOLOGIE GMBH
3:00	Afternoon Refreshments and Networking Break
3:15	Nanophosphors for Energy Harvesting and Detection Applications	Hisham Menkara, Vice President, PHOSPHORTECH CORPORATION
3:45	Revisiting Pandora's Box of Luminescence	Andries Meijerink, Professor, UNIVERSITY UTRECHT
4:15	Closing Remarks from the Conference Chairs and Conclusion of Conference

Seminar # 1: Fundamental Concepts of Luminescence Spectroscopy and Basics of White LED Phosphors

Tuesday, March 22
8:30 - 12:00 pm
$559

Part 1: Fundamental Concepts of Luminescence Spectroscopy
The seminar will cover fundamental aspects of luminescence spectroscopy and will provide those who are less familiar with luminescence phenomena a solid introduction into the basics of the field. The lectures will give insight in the energy level structure of lanthanides and transition metal ions and it will discuss the most important processes involved in luminescent materials, including radiative and non-radiative decay processes and energy transfer. The seminar will be illustrated with examples to demonstrate the link between fundamental processes and phosphor performance. In the end exercises will be given to give the opportunity to apply the theory to 'real' problems.

- Basic concepts of optical spectroscopy
- Energy level structure of lanthanides and transition metal ions
- Radiative and non-radiative decay processes
- Theory and modeling of energy transfer between luminescent ions

Andries Meijerink, Professor, UNIVERSITY UTRECHT

Part 2: Basics of White LED Phosphors
This talk is intended to answer questions on fundamental issues of white LED phosphors with basic physical concepts. It will begin with introduction of typical phosphors describing how the phosphors absorb blue light and emit yellow to red luminescence. This is followed by discussion on tuning of emission and absorption wavelength based on energy levels of an activator ion in a crystal. Emphasis will be laid on the effects of covalency of a host crystal, typically sulfides and nitrides. Another critical issue of thermal quenching of luminescence is discussed by presentation of both localized and delocalized transitions of an activator electron. Finally possibility of efficiency degradation and luminance saturation under high input power is also examined.

- Factors determining absorption and emission wavelength
- Effect of covalency on luminescence color
- Possible reasons of thermal quenching
- Possible reasons of degradation
- Some features of nitride phosphors

Hajime Yamamoto, Tokyo University of Technology

Seminar # 2: Designing Luminescent Materials and Energy Flow in Luminescent Materials Excited by High Energy Radiation

Tuesday, March 22
1:30 - 5:00pm
$559

Part 1: Designing Luminescent Materials
The purpose of this seminar is to discuss tools that can be used to design luminescent materials (phosphors and scintillators) with the goal of developing lighting and detector products with maximum efficacy and at minimum cost. Major topics that will be covered are the selection of host lattice and of the luminescent ion, the influence of chemical composition and crystal structure on the spectral attributes of the luminescent material. The seminar will also provide an overview of phosphors and scintillators that are of commercial importance

Alok Srivastava, Researcher, GE

Part 2: Energy Flow in Luminescent Materials Excited by High Energy Radiation
This part of the course will deal with phosphors that are excited using high energy radiation. Emphasis will be on the mechanisms that eventually generate the luminescence and different models will be compared. I will also deal with luminescent loss processes, including phosphor degradation and potential ways out.

Cees Ronda, Research Fellow, Research group Light Generation, Philips Technologie GmbH

Seminar Speaker Bios

Professor Andries Meijerink leads an active research group that focuses on the optical spectroscopy of lanthanide ions in solids and of semiconductor quantum dots. In the field of lanthanide ions his recent work involves fundamental research on finding new concepts also related to applications in solar cells, LEDs and scintillators. Meijerink has received several awards for his research, including the DSM Award for Chemistry and Technology (1989), the Shell Incentive Award (1995), the Gold Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (1999) and the Centennial Award for Luminescence and Display Materials from the Electrochemical Society (2002). In 2009 he was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

Hajime Yamamoto received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Tokyo University in 1967 through his research on vibronic spectra of rare-earth ions in perovskite titanates. That same year he joined Hitachi Ltd., Central Research Laboratory, where he participated in research and development of phosphors, p-type ZnSe thin films and scintillators. Yamamoto moved to Tokyo University of Technology in 1991, and continued research on phosphors for application such as plasma display panels, field emission displays and white LEDs. He is one of the authors of the patent of a red phosphor for white LEDs, CaAlSiN3:Eu2+. Yamamoto retired from the University in 2008 and is now devoted to education and promotion of phosphor technology. He is a chair of the Phosphor Research Society based in Japan. For his research, he received the Tanahashi Award of the Japanese Electrochemical Society and the Phosphor Award of the Phosphor Research Society.

Dr. Alok Srivastava received his Ph.D. in inorganic and solid state chemistry in 1986 from Polytechnic University of New York. In 1989 he joined the GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York, where he is currently a Principle Scientist. Dr. Srivastava's research describes the relationship between the synthesis, crystal structure and optical properties of rare earth and transition metal ions in solids. He has conducted research in collaboration with GE Lighting, GE HealthCare and GE Energy on luminescent materials for fluorescent lamps, LED lighting, scintillator and solar materials. For his pioneering research to achieve the first demonstration of quantum splitting in oxide phosphors, he was awarded the First Centennial Outstanding Achievement Award of the Luminescence and Display Materials Division of The Electrochemical Society. He has published more than 80 articles in international journals and has been awarded 100 US patents. He is the former Chairman of the Luminescence and Display Materials group of The Electrochemical Society. He serves on the editorial board of Optical Materials and The Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

Prof. Dr. Cees Ronda received his Ph.D. in solid state chemistry in 1986 from the State University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His Ph.D. work dealt with optical properties of layered metaldihalides. In 1986, he joined Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and went to Philips Research Aachen, Germany, in 1989. He was appointed Research Fellow in 2001 and in 2005 he received the prestigious Pannenborg Award for outstanding scientific contributions to Philips Research. Ronda has conducted materials research for Philips Lighting, Philips Components and Philips Healthcare. His work has resulted in more than 40 US patents and more than 65 publications. Recently he edited the book Luminescence: From Theory to Applications that appeared at Wiley-VCH. He holds part-time professorships at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Zhejiang University, China. Prof. Ronda also teaches in Erice, Italy at the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy. Ronda served recently as Chairman of the Luminescence and Display Materials group of The Electrochemical Society.

2011 Pricing

*Academic and government rates available. Please e-mail John Buss or call + 1 202 309 7296 for more information.

Need to contact a member of the Phosphor Global Summit team? Below you will find the appropriate person and contact information for all of your questions.

Program + Speaker Inquiries
Barbara Rojas
+1 207 807 5749

Sponsorship + Exhibit Inquiries
Brian Santos
+1 207 781 9618

Media + Association Partnership Inquiries
Rebecca Kotsimpulos
+1 207 781 9616

Membership + Registration Inquiries
John Buss
+1 202 309 7296

Conference Logistics Inquiries
Laura Preston
+1 207 781 9613

Hotel and Accommodation Information - Room Rate Extended!
The conference will be taking place at the Westin Riverwalk San Antonio. Participants and speakers are responsible for booking their own accommodations, however, a limited number of rooms have been set aside at the hotel at a discounted rate of $179 + taxes per night. To take advantage of this discounted rate, please book your room no later than Friday, March, 4, 2011.

2 easy ways to book your room:

Online: Smithers Apex Dedicated Link

Telephone: +1 210 224 6500 (please mention that you are participating in Smithers Apex's Phosphors summit)

About the Westin Riverwalk San Antonio
420 W Market Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205

The Westin Riverwalk is in San Antonio's Paseo del Rio, a pedestrian river walk of hidden gardens, shops and sidewalk cafés one story below downtown. Shaded by cypress and palm trees, the hotel graces this famous thoroughfare and celebrates the beauty and heritage of Texas's oldest city.

Expect a warm welcome at The Westin Riverwalk, San Antonio, where guests are greeted with delicious dark chocolate imported from Venezuela. A beautiful, copper platter greets you at check-in, filled with El Rey Latin American specialty chocolates.

Relaxing and convenient, the Alamo, La Villita, Market Square and the Convention Center are all just minutes away. Meeting planners will appreciate The Westin Riverwalk's 23,000 square feet of meeting space, and all guests will enjoy the soothing, comfortable rooms, most with balconies overlooking the river. Rejuvenate in the state-of-the-art WestinWORKOUT® Gym or relax with a soothing spa service. Dine at Zocca, a rustic-style Italian restaurant located on the River Walk.