Welcome to 2010 Symposium

The goal of this symposium is to offer a venue for discussions and the exchange of ideas on the areas of solar photovoltaics, infrared photovoltaics and light emitting diodes (LEDs). The common foundation of these three subjects yet often disparate R&D efforts motivates this symposium, which aims to bring together associates who otherwise may not interact.

The symposium will provide a well organized international forum to review and discuss recent progress and future trends in the rapidly advancing field of photonic materials and devices. The symposium will cover a broad range of physics and application such as emerging trends in solar energy, infrared detection, solid state lighting, and related quantum functional materials and devices.

This symposium has been jointly organized by Quantum Functional Semiconductor Research Center (QSRC) of Dongguk University, S. Korea, Sivananthan Laboratories Inc, Bolingbrook, IL USA and Microphysics Laboratory (MPL) of the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. It is 7th in series and was formerly known as the “International Symposium on Quantum Functional Systems”. QSRC, EPIR and MPL partner on various research areas and their partnership contributes to the training of many undergraduate and graduate students in the area of Applied Physics.