Dr. Kris Krishnamurthy, Director, R&D - Material Science - Display Business-OLED Systems - Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester, NY. USA.
Dr. Kris (Sundaram) Krishnamurthy was born in India and had his undergraduate ducation in Chennai. In 1972, He received his Ph.D. degree in organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue University working with Distinguished Professor Herbert C. Brown. The following years were spent as Postdoctoral Assistant to Professor Brown, helping him direct a large group of 30+ research scientists. Dr. Krishnamurthy’s research work led to the discovery of Super Hydrides, Selectrides, and Super Selectrides, and chiral boranes, enzyme-like selective reagents, leading to Professor Brown’s Nobel Prize in 1979. He accompanied Professor Brown for Nobel Ceremonies. These reagents have found thousands of applications in pharmaceuticals development. He joined Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories in 1979

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Dr. Larry F. Weber has spent his entire career of 38 years devoted to the advancement and promotion of plasma displays. He started in the late 60’s as a student of the plasma display inventors at the University of Illinois. In 1975 he became a professor at Illinois and rose to become the director of the plasma display research group. In 1987 he co-founded Plasmaco Inc., which in that same year acquired the world’s largest plasma display manufacturing plant from IBM. In 1993 he became President of Plasmaco. Under his leadership Plasmaco was acquired by Panasonic in 1996. In January 2004 he retired from the position of President and CEO of Plasmaco.

Dr. Weber has published over 40 papers and holds 15 patents on plasma displays including the patents for the energy recovery sustain circuit and the ramp setup waveform used in today’s plasma TV products. He is a Fellow of the SID and the IEEE. He has received two SID Special Recognition Awards. SID bestowed its’ prestigious Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize to Dr. Weber in 2000 for “pioneering contributions to Plasma Display Panel technology and its commercialization.” He now serves as President of the SID.

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Lauren Palmateer, born in the year of the iron mouse (1960) in New Jersey, USA, dedicated her early ‘20’s to Radio Astronomy and GHz receivers at Bell Laboratories, Chalmers University in Sweden, Ecole Normale Superior in Paris and The Observatory of Paris-Meudon in France. Specialized in high frequency Schottky barrier diodes she moved onto IBM Watson Research Center in 1983 for work on GaAs, InP and related III-V semiconductors. She completed her PhD in high speed GHz Transistors in III-V systems at Cornell University under Professor Lester Eastman. In, 1990, IBM decided not to use GaAs in computers and she moved into the Flat Panel field in TFTLCDs for the IBM ThinkPad. Since 1995 she worked in Silicon Valley California for startup companies in TFTs for Medical Imaging at DpiX, LCOS for projection at MicroDisplay, MEMS for Telecom at Iolon and now MEMS for portable-reflective display applications with the start-up company Iridigm, , acquired by Qualcomm, Inc.. Determined to bring the IMOD reflective Qualcomm MEMS display www.qualcomm.com/qmt to market for use in wireless communications, she specializes in manufacturing aspects, equipment and process design, materials, packaging and interconnects. Happy to be present at this SID 2007 conference in Brazil, hoping one day I share inspirations and experiences through outreach programs to students and young people in Brazil. RF is amazing and we don’t even see it, but can probe the far reaches of the Universe as well as calling our friends.

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Dr. Manju Rajeswaran is a Senior Research Scientist in Eastman Kodak Company. Manju received her B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Analytical chemistry and Ph. D. in Biophysics from Delhi University; Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and Roswell Park Memorial Institute (graduate division of SUNY/Buffalo) respectively. Subsequently, she held 2 postdoctoral fellowships at SUNY/Stony Brook and at the University of Rochester. Manju joined Kodak in 1999 and is currently the technical leader in the analytical single crystal X-ray laboratory responsible for crystallography related activities and other analytical methods pertaining to polymorphism in materials science. She is experienced in wide range of analytical techniques vital for characterization and development of display materials. She has been an invited speaker at various national and international conferences.

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Prof. Norbert Fruehauf received his Ph.D. (Dr-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and has more than 17 years of experience in designing and characterising liquid crystal light modulators and displays. From 1998 to 2001 he worked for Physical Optics Corporation , Torrance, California, USA, where he developed tunable micro-optic components, various display systems  and integrated optical components. In 2001 he was appointed full professor heading the Chair of Display Technology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he specializes in large area microelectronics for applications in flexible displays, AMOLEDs and AMLCDs and sensor arrays.
Prof. Fruehauf is a member of the SID Symposium Active Matrix Committee and serves on various other national and international scientific advisory boards, conference committees and journal editing teams.

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Norio Karube (Born in 1937, June)
1961:Graduated from Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo
Started R/D of laser science & engineering in Tokyo Laboratory of Panasonic
1971:Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo University
1985:Joined Fanuc Ltd. (Senior Vice President)
Visiting Professor in Tokyo Electro-Communication University
2002:Established LEMI Ltd. (President & CEO)

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Peter Opdahl is President of Ito Corporation and runs Ito Group, a worldwide network of subsidiaries and partnerships that cover the major manufacturing areas of Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Europe, and the Americas. He spends a great deal of his time in the area of display and high-density board interconnects, specifically those that involve the use of Anisotropic Conductive Film. Beginning in 1999, Peter began running a highly successful series of Seminars on ACF design and use. The Seminar has now been given over 30 times and has graduates at companies and research institutes worldwide.
Peter was raised in the United States but has now lived for eleven years in Japan, the past six with his wife, daughter, mother-in-law, and one very large dog. He has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in Political Science as well as a Masters of International Business Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He also spent two years at Waseda University in Tokyo in a post-graduate research fellowship given by the Japanese Ministry of Education. He speaks, reads, and writes fluent Japanese, and knows just enough Chinese to get into trouble.

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With more than 10 years of experience on leading innovative R&D projects, has a strong technical background from its graduation on Electrical Engineering School at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina -  Brazil and complemented by a number of executive specialization courses such as “Complex product design” from MIT – SLOAN. Today is the Director of the Digital Convergence Center at CERTI Foundation Institute in Brazil and also the responsible for coordinating projects with Philips Labs in Brazil. Considering Digital TV activities, took a key role on the development of major projects such as: Instinct Project (2004 to 2006), an European consortium project grouping 23 companies worldwide, focusing on the development of convergent scenarios for Digital TV and 3G cellular networks; The development of the Brazilian Digital TV Standards (2006 to 2008) working as a member of the technical groups responsible for the standard development; On 2007 coordinated technical and marketing activities by leading teams on Brazil, Singapore, France, US for the launching of the first Philips family of Digital TV Terrestrial receivers for Brazil, includes a set-top box and an Integrated TV.

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Samuel S. Chung received his BS in Engineering from Seoul National University in 1969, Ph.D. in Materials Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976, and MBA with honor from Syracuse University in 1984. He started his professional career as a research scientist in photocathode development for Schlumberger Company in 1977 and successfully developed the ultra-violet sensitive photocathode with ultra-high quantum efficiency in 1978-79. He also led a NASA-sponsored research program for the imaging tube development to be used for the Space Telescope. He joined General Electric Company, CRT Division in 1980 as a senior scientist and worked for the CRT cathode development and back-end process development. He then joined Philips Display Components Company in 1985 as the Process Engineering Manager and worked on CRT process development. Later on he also led the Application Engineering group for system development and the Design Engineering group for the next generation CRT development. Subsequently, he was transferred to Philips Consumer Electronics Company in 1996 as a Senior Engineering Manager, Display Technology, and led display system development projects including projection display systems.

He joined Samsung SDI in 1997 as the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, and led various display technology development programs related to PDP, OLED, FED, VFD, LCD, CRT as well as new materials and devices development for Li-ion battery and fuel cell. His leadership in the development of PDP technology and OLED technology towards commercial success, while CRT and LCD were dominant, led to the successful creation of new businesses in PDP and OLED in 2000-2001. He then joined Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in 2001 as the Executive Vice President and Chief Research Officer, and directed the R&D portfolio in materials, display, semiconductor, MEMS, optoelectronic devices, battery and fuel cell. During his tenure with Samsung for eight years, he was active in the display industry in Korea for the promotion of close collaboration between academia and industry, serving as the first Vice Chairman of the Korea Information Display Society in 2002-03, representing the industry.

He joined Eastman Kodak Company in March 2005 as the Executive Director of the Display Science and Technology Center, and led the research in OLED, Optical Display Films, and Printed Electronics. Recent research results are reported in the SID conference; about 25 papers presented from Kodak in each of the previous two years. He has successfully steered towards the next generation display technology development with the requirements being printable, flexible, and low cost. As a result, those research projects, such as the QD-Coatable Inorganic LED and the ZnO backplane, are on the right track to succeed the current display technology in LCD and OLED.

He has been a member of the Society of Information Display since 1988. He and his wife Jane have two children, Edward and Sandra, both graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Stefano Tominetti was born in 1964 in Milano (Italy) and graduated in Plasma Physics in 1990 at the University of Milano. In 1995 he received his Ph.D. in Energetics (Nuclear Engineering) at the Polytechnic of Torino. The professional background includes several years’ experience in hydrogen-metal interaction studies at Ispra Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, with more than 20 scientific publications in international journals on theoretical and experimental gas-metal interactions for Fusion Technology. In 1996 he joined SAES Getters Corporate R&D Labs, dealing with getter alloys physical characterisation, getter structure development and residual gas analyses in vacuum devices. In 1998 he was appointed Head of Electron Devices Laboratory, co-ordinating research on getter solutions for Flat Displays and Electronic Devices. He has filed patents on getter materials and devices and has authored and co-authored several publications in this field. Since January 2004 he is Business Manager for Flat Panel products, being responsible for the strategic planning and sales activities in all major FP applications, from VFD to PDP, FED and OLED, both for display and lighting.

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Victor Pellegrini Mammana é bacharel em Física pelo IFUSP (1993) e doutor em ciências pelo IFUSP (2000). Trabalhou no Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, em Berkeley, California, no período de 98 a 2000, onde contribuiu no desenvolvimento de novos processos e novos materiais para efeito de campo. Foi pesquisador colaborador do Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer (CenPRA), de Campinas, SP, de 2001 a 2002, onde iniciou um programa de pesquisa e desenvolvimento em mostradores de informação por emissão de campo FEDs. Foi pesquisador do International Technology Center (ITC), do Triangle Park, Carolina do Norte, USA, de 2002 a 2004, tendo liderado projetos na área de emissão de campo e em materiais avançados. Atualmente é pesquisador do CenPRA onde presentemente coordena o Projeto Jovem Pesquisador da FAPESP em “Estruturas para emissão de campo”, o Projeto “FED” e o Projeto “Emmissive Displays”, ambos financiados pela HP, e o Projeto “Roadmap de Nanotecnologia Aero-espacial”, financiado pela Agência Espacial Brasileira (AEB). É membro do grupo de avaliação do Projeto “One laptop per child”, proposto pelo MediaLab/MIT. Contribuiu na criação do Latin American Chapter da Society for Information Display, sendo membro de sua diretoria atual.

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X. W. Sun was born in Beijing, China in 1968. He received his PhD degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He joined the Division of Microelectronics in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in 1998. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, and was among the first batch of tenured faculties to retire at 65.
Thus far, Dr. Sun has (co-)authored about more than 150 peer-reviewed journal publications, which include 2 papers in Nano Lett., 1 paper in Phys. Rev. Lett., 1 paper in Adv. Mat., 4 papers in Phys. Rev. B (one Kaleidoscope cover image), and 43 papers in Appl. Phys. Lett. (including one image cover). The total citation of his publications is more than 1400 according to ISI Web of Science (H-index 19). His group is one of the most active groups in developing ZnO based devices, which has been applied for field emission, light emitting diodes, nanoweb interconnect, UV doughnut beam lasing, gas and biochemical sensing, dye-sensitized solar cell, electronic paper etc. Recently, he has discovered a long range excitonic quenching mechanism in organic semiconductors.
Dr. Sun has been the PI for about ten projects (to the sum of about S$ 3M) since he joined Nanyang Technological Universities. There are four projects funded by overseas companies (Honeywell and Nippon Sheet Glass). He has nine PhD students graduated under his supervision. He is on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Nanotechnology. He is a Guest Research Professor of Southeast University of China. He is a Senior Member of Technical Staff of Institute of Microelectronics (IME) as a joined appointed staff. He is also an Adjunct Scientist of Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE). He is the founder and chair of Society for Information Display (SID) Singapore and Malaysia Chapter. He has organized several international conferences, including Society for Information Display Annual Symposium 2008, IEEE Nanoelectronics Conference 2008, Asian Symposium on Information Display 2002 and 2007, Asia Display 2007, East Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors 2007. He has more than twenty invited talks in international conferences including four keynote lectures and won the best paper award during Asia Display conference held in Shanghai in March 2007.

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Xingwei Wu received his BS in Physics from Northern Jiaotong University at Beijing, he came to Canada in 1982, received his PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Western Ontario.  Prior to his career in display industry, he worked in different research area such as photovoltaic devices, thin film semiconductors and material surface analysis.  Shortly after joining Sherritt Gordon Ltd. in 1990, he led a small group of researchers to develop inorganic EL display technology based on screen printed thick dielectric system, known as TDEL. During his 18 years career in display technology, he led many research and development programs in dielectric, phosphor materials, device structure, and processing technologies, and demonstrated the world first 34” full color HD TDEL display panel in December 2003.  He was appointed as the Vice President of iFire Technology in 1999.   He has published over 40 research papers and holds over 10 patents on TDEL technology including materials, device structure, manufacturing processes and “color by blue”.  He had been a member of SID for many years, and served as a member of International Program Committees for EL Workshop and Asia Display Conference.