Online / September 08, 2025, 3 pm CEST
SID Mid-Europe Chapter (SID-MEC) Online-Meeting

The Mid-Europe Chapter of the Society for Information Display (SID-MEC) invites you to its Fall Meeting. Under the title "Quantum Dot Materials and Processing for Displays" experts from the display industry and research institutions will discuss current developments and challenges. The event will take place online on September 8, 2025, from 15:00 to 17:00 CEST and offers a platform for the exchange of knowledge and ideas.
The program will highlight progress in quantum dot synthesis, color conversion technologies for microLEDs, advanced printing methods such as EHD-jet, and strategies for commercialization. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the integration of quantum dots into the next generation display systems.
Artur Podhorodecki graduated from Wrocław University of Science and Technology with a specialization in Solid State Physics. In 2007, he completed his doctoral studies with honors. His dissertation earned him the Prime Minister’s Award for the best doctoral thesis in the field of Materials Engineering. In 2020, he was awarded the title of Professor of Physical Sciences.
He is the co-author of 130 scientific publications and 9 patents or patent applications and has received numerous awards and fellowships for his research. He is an expert in optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures as well as in the synthesis and functionalization of inorganic nanomaterials.
He is the CEO and founder of QNA Technology S.A., a company specializing in the synthesis and modification of heavy metal-free, blue-light-emitting semiconductor quantum dots, and the development of inks based on these nanomaterials for applications in displays and photonics.
One of the intriguing yet largely unexplored technological approaches to fabricating microLED displays involves utilizing UV microLEDs alongside colloidal quantum dots as light-converting materials. A main difference from traditional blue LEDs backlighting lies in the necessity of integrating hard-to-make and hard-to-get blue QDs in addition to red and green QDs. Despite this challenge, this approach offers several significant advantages, such as the lack of blue light leakage or better absorption efficiency of red and green QDs in the UV range as to name the most important ones.
In this presentation, we will show the properties of our UV curable inks, which are based on heavy metal-free, blue light-emitting QDs known as PureBlue.dots, which can be used for UV light conversion to high quality 455 nm blue light which can be used in microLED displays.
Furthermore, we will showcase our recent findings obtained from electroluminescent devices utilizing PureBlue.dots as the active material.
Manuel Gensler is a physical chemist (diploma, HU-Berlin) and chemical physicist (PhD, HU-Berlin) with research interests in functional materials (polymers and nanomaterials), solution processing of devices (OLED, OPV, Perovskites), and single-molecule physics. During his scientific projects, he gained deep knowledge in printing technologies (Ink-Jet, EHD-Jet) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Thereby, he worked with a broad range of materials: single (bio)polymers, organic materials, thin films, 2D materials such as graphene, supported lipid bilayers, and nanomaterials such as quantum dots. Since 2017, he has been working as a project manager and, since 2023, as a research manager at Fraunhofer IAP. In his leisure time, he is treasurer of the non-profit organization Chemie Freunde Erkner e.V., which aims to bring science and especially chemistry to a general audience. A special focus is on experiments for children. For these activities, he received civic awards from the city of Erkner in 2013 and 2022.
Peter Palomaki is the owner and chief scientist at Palomaki Consulting, LLC where he consults with companies around the world on understanding, characterizing, and implementing QD and other nanomaterial technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Rensselaer and has developed QD-enabled optical technologies at National Renewable Energy Laboratory along with multiple companies, including QD Vision. He has become a trusted speaker, writer, and QD industry veteran, relied on by clients for his problem-solving capabilities and deep network in the display industry.
The SID-MEC is the Mid-European branch of the Society for Information Display (SID). Founded in 1962, SID is one of the largest associations of scientists, developers, and companies in the field of electronic and information displays worldwide. Embedded in SID, the SID-MEC acts as a Mid-European branch covering a wide geographical spectrum from Eastern to Western Europe.
With a primary focus on displays, the association's forward-looking work encompasses all devices that enable image display, such as smartphone displays, projectors, AR/VR smart glasses, televisions, or display devices in automation technology. The SID-MEC is organized by four board members. For more information about SID-MEC, please visit the SID-MEC website.
The SID-MEC is organized by four officers. The previous officers have handed over the organization to the next generation in April 2024. The new Officer Board consists of