II-VI AND INFRARED MATERIALS WORKSHOP
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ABOUT WORKSHOP

SAVE THE DATE
Sep. 27 - 30, 2027
Embassy Suites Chicago
Downtown Magnificent Mile
2027 US Workshop on II-VI and Infrared Materials

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The 2027 Workshop is the number 46 in a series that began in 1981.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
  • Dan Lofgreen
    RTX
  • Siva Sivananthan
    University of Illinois Chicago
  Workshop Committee
WORKSHOP COORDINATORS
  • Palisades Convention Management
    729 7th Avenue, Suite 1402A
    New York, NY 10019-6991
    iiviworkshop@pcm411.com
  • Paola Caicedo
    Special Issue Coordinator
    Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc.
    590 Territorial Drive, Unit H
    Bolingbrook, IL 60440
    pcaicedo@sivananthanlabs.us
  WORKSHOP CALENDAR
2027 II-VI Workshop Late-News Abstract Deadline June 12
2027 II-VI Workshop  Accept/Reject Notification June 19
2027 Extended Abstracts Due July 31
Hotel Reservation Deadline August 21
Early Registration Deadline September 12
2027 II-VI Workshop Sep 27-30

 

IMPORTANT UPDATES & LINKS

 
 

WORKSHOP VENUE

VENUE

Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile
Chicago, IL

Learn more: Link to hotel

The 2027 II-VI and Infrared Materials Workshop will be held September 27 to 30, 2027, at the Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile.

The Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile is in downtown Chicago next to Lake Michigan, two blocks from the Magnificent Mile. It is a 12-minute walk from entertainment, restaurants, and boat cruises at Navy Pier, and 8 minutes from the Chicago Riverwalk. The Theater District is within a mile.

The II-VI and Infrared Materials Workshop Committee urges all attendees to support the workshop by reserving their hotel rooms at the official workshop hotel, the Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile.


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TUTORIAL

Monday, September 27, 2027
5 to 6 pm
Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile

On September 27, the II-VI and Infrared Materials Workshop will offer a special tutorial (topic TBA). The tutorial is included with your registration: Don't miss it!

Past Tutorials  

Website sponsored by

EPIR Technologies

 
 

Best Student Paper Award

The 2025 Best Student Paper Award winner is Baptiste Gonon-Mathieu, CEA-LETI, for the paper, "EBIC Characterization of Vertical Transport of Minority Carriers in Gallium-Free Type-II Superlattices for Infrared Detectors."

Pictured in the photo above from left to right are 2026 Workshop Co-Chair Fikri Aqariden, 2025 Workshop Co-Chair Eric Piquette, student winner Baptiste Gonon-Mathieu, and 2025 Workshop Co-Chair Borzoyeh Shojaei. The award was presented at the workshop in Chicago.

Every year the Workshop Committee selects one of the student presentations to receive the William E. Spicer - Thomas N. Casselman award for the best student paper. Winners receive an honorarium and a plaque.

GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

  • Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory NASA Goddard
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory US Army C5ISR Center
  • US Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)

Supported by Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc.

Sivananthan

 

Endorsed by American Physical Society

 
 

Selected Focus Topics

  • Emerging Infrared Detector Technologies
  • Barrier Devices
  • Near-Room-Temperature IR Devices
  • Avalanche Photodiodes
  • Material Growth and Characterization
  • Substrates
  • Device and Materials Modeling
  • Doping Issues in HgCdTe
  • Radiation Detectors
  • Solar Cells
  • Integration of II-VI and III-V Materials
  • Plasmonics and Metamaterials

IR Detectors and Materials

  • II-VI and III-V Materials
  • UV
  • Gamma-Ray
  • X-Ray
  • Superlattices
  • Focal Plane Arrays
  • Photovoltaic
  • CdZnTe
  • HgCdTe
  • ZnO
  • ZnS
  • Substrates
  • History of IR Detectors

Special Sessions

  • Superlattices: II-VI and III-As/Sb
  • II-VI Based Solar Cells
  • Alternatives to CdZnTe Substrates
  • HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiodes
  • X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors
  • Surfaces and Interfaces
  • ZnO Materials and Devices
  • Defects and Doping
  • Surface Passivation
 

REQUESTING ALL PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS  AND EXHIBITORS

Please contact

Danielle Rocco
646-226-7592
Drocco@pcm411.com

 

 

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646-226-7592
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