II-VI AND INFRARED MATERIALS WORKSHOP
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ABOUT WORKSHOP

SAVE THE DATE
Sep. 29 - Oct. 2, 2025
Embassy Suites Chicago
Downtown Magnificent Mile
2025 US Workshop on II-VI and Infrared Materials

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The 2025 Workshop is the number 44 in a series that began in 1981.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
  • Siva Sivananthan
    Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc.
  • Borzoyeh Shojaei
    Teledyne Imaging Sensors
  • Eric Piquette
    Teledyne Imaging Sensors
  Workshop Committee
WORKSHOP COORDINATORS
  • Palisades Convention Management
    411 Lafayette Street, Suite 201
    New York, NY 10003
    iiviworkshop@pcm411.com
  • Paola Caicedo
    Special Issue Coordinator
    Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc.
    590 Territorial Drive, Unit H
    Bolingbrook, IL 60440
    pcaicedo@sivananthanlabs.us
  WORKSHOP CALENDAR
2025 II-VI Workshop Abstract Due Date May 23
2025 II-VI Workshop  Accept/Reject Notification June 16
2025 II-VI Workshop Late-News Abstract Deadline June 23
2025 II-VI Workshop Extended Abstract Deadline July 31
JEM Paper Submission Deadline Sep 30  - Nov 28, 2025
2025 II-VI Workshop Sep 29 - Oct 2

 

IMPORTANT UPDATES & LINKS

 

 
 

WORKSHOP VENUE

VENUE

Embassy Suites Downtown Magnificent Mile
Chicago, IL

Learn more: Link to hotel

The 2025 II-VI and Infrared Materials Workshop will be held September 29 to October 2, 2025, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile.

The Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile is located at 511 North Columbus Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel is 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.

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 by Hilton Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile.


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TUTORIAL

Monday, September 29, 2025
Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile

On September 29, the II-VI and Infrared Materials Workshop will offer a special tutorial taught by Enrico Bellotti of Boston University. Details to follow.

Past Tutorials  

GOLD SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

Website sponsored by

EPIR Technologies

 
 

Best Student Paper Award

The 2024 Best Student Paper Award winner is Angus Hendrick, University of Arizona, for the paper, "The Effects of Focal Plane Parameters on eSWIR Imaging System Performance".

Pictured in the photo above are Angus Hendrick (left) and 2024 Workshop Co-Chair Dan Lofgreen (right), who presented the award at the conference in San Antonio, TX.

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 Growthand Characterization
  • Substrates
  • Device and Materials Modeling
  • Doping Issues in HgCdTe
  • Radiation Detectors
  • Solar Cells
  • Integration of 6.1-Å II-VI and III-V Materials
  • Plasmonics and Metamaterials

II-VI Detector Materials

  • IR
  • UV
  • Gamma-Ray
  • X-Ray
  • Photovoltaic
  • CdZnTe
  • HgCdTe
  • ZnO
  • ZnS
  • History of IR Detector

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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