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OEKO Institut Backs Renewal of RoHS Exemption for Use of Cadmium Selenide-Based Quantum Dots in Displays

by Isaac Oburu

The OEKO Institut has confirmed that there are currently no alternatives on the market that match the colour performance and energy-efficiency of solutions based on cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots (QDs). The extensive report …

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What About Adding QDs to OLEDs?

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this week’s editorial from my hotel room in Las Vegas, just before the last day of Infocomm. It’s been a fascinating three weeks for me, with SID, Infocomm and AWE Expo. I’ve …

Quantum Dot Wars Continue in Europe

by Tom Allen

The ÖKO Institut of Germany – a research organisation that focuses on sustainability – has said that there are currently ‘no alternatives’ on the market that match the performance of quantum dots containing the …

Graphene for the Display Market

by Ron Mertens

Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a chicken wire pattern. It is a 2D material, which at only one-atom thick manages to be 200 times stronger than steel and able to …

Tags:Graphene| ITO Replacement| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 22

SID Buzzes and is Up – Again!

by Bob Raikes

The SID was a good event, again, this year, with a boost of 7% on attendance – a function of the location, we suspect, and the increased marketing activity. We heard numbers were up …

Quantum Dots Get Hot

by Ken Werner

At Display Week quantum-dot makers had more significant announcements and introductions than many of us expected. Its not that QDs had become boring before Display Week. After all, television market penetration was 25% heading …

PQC LED hybridised with QD colour converters

Hybrid QD-LED Raises Efficiency

by Milos Pavlovic

(a) Schematic representation, (b) cross-sectional, and (c) top SEM images of a photonic quasi-crystal LED hybridised with QD colour convertersA An international research group has used quantum dots to create a hybrid LED. QDs …

BC22 GM Says that HUDs and Displays Have Challenges

by Bob Raikes

Thomas Seder of GM (joined by James Carpenter also of GM for questions) talked about design in cars. He said that a group called EyesOn Design selected a GM Buick Avista for a design …

BC19 Nanosys Changes QD LCD Architecture

by Bob Raikes

Jason Hartlove, CEO on Nanosys started by saying that all major TV companies are using his technology (except LG – but he’s working on this). Consumers do care about resolution, but at some point …

BC14 QDVision Summarises Quantum Dots

by Bob Raikes

Seth Coe-Sullivan is from QDVision and he started by introducing the company. On the firm’s booth at SID, the firm’s marketing was focused on the shipping of commercial products with its technology. Coe-Sullivan also …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Drinking the QD “Kool-Aid”

by Barry Young

When I wandered into the Exhibit Hall at the Moscone Convention Center West, the first visible display was LG’s 77” HDR UHD AMOLED TV, which was attracting the most interest and largest crowds on …

Tags:OLEDA (OLED Association)| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Four Breakthroughs at SID 2016

by Bob Raikes

I love the SID DisplayWeek event. I have attended the event every year since 1995, so this was my 22nd visit. As I mentioned in an article last year, looking back at my early …