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BC20 Nanosys Pushing QD Costs Down

by Bob Raikes

Russel Kempt is from Nanosys and he started by saying that the company is qualifying its P6 production line that is ‘significantly’ larger than the previous P4 line which can make volume quantum dots …

Solar-Tectic LLC and Blue Wave Win Patent

by Damir Lokas

We reported on new materials from Solar-Tectic LLC (“ST”) last month and the company has now said that it, and Blue Wave Semiconductors, Inc., (“BWS”), has said that it has a new patent (U.S. …

Praxair to Supply Nitrogen to Samsung OLED Facility

by Andrew Fenn

Long-term Samsung partner Praxair, an industrial gas supplier from the US, has signed a new agreement to construct and operate an air separation plant that will supply 700 tonnes of nitrogen per day to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 41

A Better On-Chip Red Phosphor from GE (and Samsung?)

by Ken Werner

In a Display Week booth, General Electric showed its RadiantRed TriGain red phosphor which is intended to be used within an LED package. The phosphor consists of Potassium Silicon Fluoride (PSF) doped with Mn4+, …

KIT Develops Printable Glass

by Norbert Hildebrand

A group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded on printing glass structure using a 3D printing process. The process was published recently and demonstrated at the Hannover Industrial Fair. The process …

Tags:Glass| Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 19

WRT Can Identify Organic Compounds in Displays

by Bob Raikes

WRT Associates has developed and applied the means to identify organic compounds used in a variety of products. For example, the analytical chemistry approach enables WRT Associates to confirm the presence of specific organic …

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Self Healing Material – Possible Smartphone Screens?

by Norbert Hildebrand

The University of California Riverside (UCR) has developed a material that has not only self healing properties, but is also creating a force under an applied voltage (artificial muscles) and is highly transparent and …

Tags:Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 13

CLEARink Displays and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Sign Development Agreement

by Milos Pavlovic

CLEARink Displays today announced that they signed a comprehensive Materials Development Agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, focused on bringing CLEARink’s innovative, patented, reflective display technology to market by the end of 2017. Merck …

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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

AGC Releases Newest Chemically Strengthened Specialty Glass for Mobile Devices

by Isaac Oburu

AGC Asahi Glass (AGC) , a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, today announced a new, stronger lineup of its Dragontrail™ series of chemically strengthened glass used globally in smartphones and tablets. …

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Kolon Industries Develops Clear and Colorless Polyimide

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to an article in the Korea Herald, Kolon Indutries has succeeded in developing a clear and colorless polyimide calling it CPI™ (coloreless PI). Kolon Industries, the South Korean chemical company made news last …

Developments in Solid-Liquid Mixtures Suggests New Applications

by Arthur Berman

Researchers within the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University are exploring new means for adjusting the extent that a material scatters light. The researchers believe that such a …

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