Co-Founder and CEO
NS Nanotech, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Seth Coe-Sullivan, Ph.D., is Co-founder and CEO of NS Nanotech, Inc. a spin-out of University of Michigan based on technology developed by Professor Zetian Mi. With exclusive rights to a patent portfolio based on more than a decade of pioneering work by Prof. Mi’s teams at McGill University and the University of Michigan, the company is developing next-generation nanoLEDs with the potential to deliver orders-of-magnitude improvements in brightness, efficiency, color saturation, directionality, and power consumption for large displays, AR/VR microdisplays, and UVC disinfection. NS Nanotech is also currently shipping patented nitride semiconductor emitters of far-UVC light for disinfection of coronavirus and other pathogens.
Until 2019 Dr. Coe-Sullivan was Chief Technology Officer of Luminit LLC, where he led growth and new product introductions. While there he launched the world’s first volume holographic combiner product for augmented reality displays, procuring first customers, completing development, and setting up manufacturing. Before joining Luminit, he was Co-founder and CTO of QD Vision, which was acquired by Samsung. He also currently advises several start-up companies in their early technology development phases.
Dr. Coe-Sullivan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, and Sc.B from Brown University in 1999. He has more than 50 papers, patents, and patents pending in the fields of organic light emitting devices, quantum dots, displays, and environmental health and safety. Dr. Coe-Sullivan has received industry awards including Technology Review Magazine’s TR35 Award, BusinessWeek’s top young entrepreneurs, Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award, the SEMI Award for North America, and the Presidential Green Chemistry Award. Most recently he received the Society for Information Display’s Peter Brody Award for his pioneering work bringing quantum dot technology to market.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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