Although solid-state light sources are already providing energy savings and environmental benefits in numerous applications, these sources are far from reaching their ultimate potential. Numerous technical challenges need to be overcome to demonstrate solid-state light sources with high efficiency and luminous flux at an affordable price. Materials and device research is particularly relevant in achieving this goal. This symposium is dedicated to the materials science and technology of solid-state lighting devices. The scope of the conference includes current-injected organic and inorganic light-emitting materials, wavelength conversion materials, nanomaterials, and encapsulants. The objective of the symposium is to bring together those working on material and device aspects of solid-state lighting and to review the current state of the art in internal efficiency, external efficiency, device scaling, packaging, reliability, theoretical modeling, and other relevant factors in solid-state lighting. Brought to maturity, such devices would likely see widespread use in applications as diverse as lighting, imaging, sensing, communications, and biotechnology. Internationally recognized experts will discuss recent progress in the field.

Topics of particular interest include, but will not be limited to:

• Light-emitting devices based on compound semiconductors
• Light-emitting devices based on organic materials
• Phosphors, nanophosphors, and other wavelength conversion materials
• Photonic crystal materials
• Encapsulants
• Physics of light-emitting devices
• Packaging for light-emitting devices
• Thermal management and optics of power packages
• Reliability of light-emitting devices
• Reflectors for light-emitting devices

Invited speakers include: Paul Burrows (Pacific Northwest National Lab), Alex Cartwright (SUNY-Buffalo), Anil Duggal (General Electric), Suchi Guha (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia), Steve Hersee (Univ. of New Mexico), Robert Karlicek (Luminous Devices), Jong Kyu Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.), Jong-Tae Lim (Samsung, Korea), Joe Mazzochette (Laminar Ceramics), and Franky So (Osram).

Brian K. Crone
Los Alamos National Laboratory
dp 15u, MS 0429, TA3
Bldg. 40, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Tel 505-667-0344
Fax 505-665-4292
bcrone@lanl.gov

Heng Liu
eLite Corporation
18042 Cortney Ct.
City of Industry, CA 91748
Tel 626-839-2032
Fax 626-839-2033
hengliu@eliteopto.net

E. Fred Schubert
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dept. of ECSE and Dept. of Physics
110 Eighth St., Troy, NY 12180
Tel 518-276-8775
Fax 518-276-8042
efschubert@rpi.edu

Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik
State University of New York-Albany
College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering
Rm. 219, 255 Fuller Rd.
Albany, NY 12203
Tel 518-437-8686
Fax 518-437-8603
sshahedipour@uamail.albany.edu

Yan-Kuin Su
National Cheng Kung University
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
No. 1 University Rd.
Tainan 701, Taiwan
Tel 886-6-275-7575 x-62382
Fax 886-6-235-1864
yksu@mail.ncku.edu.tw