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Perovskites Will Compete with QDs

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Perovskite is a mineral that was first discovered in the Ural mountains of Russia by Gustav Rose in 1839 and is named after Russian mineralogist L. A. Perovski. Naturally occurring variations of perovskite have …

Dyoptyka Begins Asset Sell-Off

by Tom Allen

uDM2 deformable mirror module in an active state. Deformable area elliptical in shape with major axes 3mm and 4.5mm in length. Highly randomised surface deformations created at up to 500kHz. Closed loop control system …

Competitor to Quantum Dots Emerging

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Quantum dots (QDs) are exactly that – microscopic balls of material that are roughly spherical and practically zero-dimensional points. Quantum dots have been hailed as a technology that can bring near-Rec. 2020 colorimetry to …

Tags:Laser| LED| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Brandenburg Gate 3D Mapped With Lasers to Mark the 25th Anniversary of German Reunification

by Isaac Oburu

Berlin’s iconic monument the latest site in CyArk’s mission to digitally preserve 500 historic sites around the world; Iron Mountain and Seagate provide end-to-end services for capture, access and preservation of scanning data. On …

Tags:Germany| Laser| Mapping & Cartography

“Fairy Lights” Holographic Display Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team composed of researchers from several universities and a corporation and led by Yoichi Ochiai, an Assistant Professor in the Digital Nature Group at the University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan), is developing a …

Tags:Imaging| Laser| Vol 22 - Issue 29| Volumetric Displays

Fraunhofer Coatings Enable Full-Laser Backlights

by Tom Allen

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) will show a coating that enables laser backlighting for holographic displays at SID 2015 (stand 222). SeeReal Technologies in Dresden joined Fraunhofer …

Nichia’s BG Lasers Raise TV Backlight Efficiency

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Nichia has developed a laser backlight technology for LCD TVs, which could be 25% more efficient than LEDs. Sources, speaking to The Nikkei, said that Nichia had found a way to produce laser …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser| Laser TVs| LCD Backlights| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Light Sources, Signage and More at CinemaCon 2015

by Tom Allen

Various products were unveiled at Cinemacon in Las Vegas this month. We have pulled out some of the most interesting (see Product News), and have a roundup of other relevant ones here. The Cinecloud …

Power Technology Brings Laser Expertise to Cinema Projection

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Power Technology Inc. (Alexander, AR) has been in the laser business for over 45 years without making a splash in the display community. That’s about to change with its March 23 announcement of a …

Tags:Cinema| Laser| Laser Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 13

New Structures Diffuse Electrons to Enable Organic Lasers

by Tom Allen

OLED-based laser diodes may be within reach soon, thanks to work by a team of American and Japanese researchers. They have found that OLEDs made with finely-patterened structures can produce bright, low-power light sources: …

TriLite to Introduce Steerable Pixels and RGB Laser Modules at Photonics West

by Chris Chinnock

TriLite Technologies (Vienna, Austria) is a start-up that has been working on a unique laser display technology for about four years. Now, the company is ready to tell the world about its inventions. There are …

Philips Goes All-Out With Android

by Tom Allen

Philips and US-licensee Funai share space in the Renaissance hotel, next to the Convention Centre. The companies were mostly gathering feedback on their products for the year. A major announcement by TP Vision (the …