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Crystalplex: A Different Approach to Quantum Dots

by Ken Werner

Crystalplex Corp., a very small 12-year-old company with headquarters in Pittsburgh, was recently awarded a patent for an important piece of IP for making “air-stable” quantum dots. And last Friday, I had an exclusive …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 51

Quantum Materials Ships Quantum Dot Sample Sets

by Ken Werner

In my last couple of Display Dailies, I’ve written about the rapidly evolving world of quantum-dot suppliers. This is another one. No apologies for that. There’s a lot to write about. Let’s step back …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Merck/EMD Confirms Nanoco Quantum Dot Technology Transfer on Fast Track

by Ken Werner

Two weeks ago in this space I reported on an extensive conversation with Michael Edelman, CEO of the UK-based quantum-dot developer Nanoco (accent on the second syllable according to Edelman.) During that conversation, Edelman …

Connecting the Quantum Dotters

by Ken Werner

For the last few years, there have been several developers of quantum dots but only two manufacturers with QDs in display products: Nanosys and QD Vision. But QD Vision seems to have largely retired …

Tags:Merck| Nanoco| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Two Backplanes: 1) Wow, and 2) Incroyable!

by Ken Werner

Let’s start with Wow. Sharp has been using its hard-earned IGZO expertise in a variety of creative ways, one of which is to use the speedy TFT technology to fabricate gate drivers on the …

Tags:IGZO| Patents| sharp| TFT| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Silver Microclusters Formed in Zeolite Pores Can Be Highly Efficient Phosphors

by Ken Werner

A Nature Materials article published on line in June of this year charts an interesting approach to making very very small, very efficient silver phophors. The many authors, including Oliver Fenwick of CNRS and …

Tags:Materials| Vol 23 - Issue 40

60 Exhibitors Show Their Wares at the 2016 Vehicle Displays Conference

by Ken Werner

The 23rd Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays, held in Livonia, Michigan, on September 27 and 28, incorporated an exhibition at which 60 companies, including many Tier 1 suppliers, displayed their wares. Among the exhibitors …

Vehicle Displays 2016 Technical Conference: Autonomous Vehicles and HMI are Converging

by Ken Werner

The Society for Information Display’s Detroit Chapter sponsored its 23rd Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays in Livonia, Michigan, on September 27 and 28. This year’s edition was called “Vehicle Displays and Interfaces 2016.” Attendance …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID - Vehicle Displays 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Autonomous Vehicles Require More — NOT Fewer — Displays

by Ken Werner

The Society for Information Display’s Detroit Chapter sponsored its 23rd Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays in Livonia, Michigan, on September 27 and 28. This year’s edition was called ‘Vehicle Displays and Interfaces 2016’. Attendance …

Tags:Automotive| Vol 23 - Issue 38

OLEDs Can Fold. So What?

by Ken Werner

The idea that a folding OLED display will somehow revolutionize portable product design and create a volcanic market expansion periodically raises its ill-conceived head. A recent occurance was the presentation by UBI Research president …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 36

A New Market for OLED Lighting

by Ken Werner

At the 2016 National Hardware Show held in Las Vegas, May 4-6, the Kickstarter-funded company Alkilu (Los Angeles) won the New Product World Winner prize for aesthetics. The product, called TripLit, is a thin, …

Tags:GLT| LCD Backlights| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Samsung Introduces HDR 10 Reference Disc and Workflow

by Ken Werner

On August 10, Samsung held an HDR Metrology Seminar and Workshop at its glossy retail showcase and conference center in New York’s now-trendy Meatpacking District. Samsung introduced a new HDR 10 evaluation – don’t …