R&D (Research & Development)

Applied Materials to Invest $4B in EPIC Center for Semiconductor R&D

by Shawnee Blackwood

This substantial investment is contingent on the receipt of support from the U.S. government through provisions of the CHIPS and Science Act. Once operational, the EPIC Center is projected to host over $25 billion in company R&D investments during its first decade.

Tags:Applied Materials| CHIPS Act| Manufacturing| R&D (Research & Development)

The World’s Densest OLED Microdisplay

by Omid Rahmat

Fraunhofer FEP has developed OLED microdisplays that utilize a 28-nanometer backplane technology on 300mm wafers.

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Researchers Couple Light and Matter for Brighter, More Colorful Displays

by Emory Kale

A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews, in collaboration with the University of Cologne, has developed a way to enhance the brightness and color of TVs and smart screen displays while …

Tags:Brightness| Colour Quality| OLED| POLED| R&D (Research & Development)

New Cross-Linkable Polymer Developed for High-Performance OLEDs

by Emory Kale

This new material could have significant implications for the development of high-performance, solution-processed OLEDs, particularly for use in flexible and wearable electronics. A new research paper funded by the South Korean government and appearing …

Tags:Manufacturing| OLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Machine Learning Easing the Design of Color-Tunable Fluorescent Materials

by Omid Rahmat

Researchers in Switzerland and Australia have used machine learning to crack the code governing charge transfer and colour emission in chains of molecules. Exciton Science The process of creating OLEDs can involve a significant …

Tags:OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

Virtual cockpit shows future of air combat

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Times visited BAE in Warton, Lancashire, in the UK and was shown the latest simulator that the company has for the Tempest fighter aircraft, due to enter service in 2035 …

Tags:Aviation| Military & Defence| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch| UK (United Kingdom)

Researchers have created fluorophores between 2.4 and 20 times more intense than analogs.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SciTechDaily reported on research published in the journal Dyes & Pigments from the Ural Federal University in Russia that worked on the inclusion of cyanogroup compounds in fluorophores to considerably boost …

Tags:OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| TADF

Bottom Up, ‘Cinematic’ Chemistry for Blue QDs

by Bob Raikes

Most quantum dot displays use a source of blue light (LEDs in nearly all cases except Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panels) but this means that you have to make the blue light emit from the …

Tags:Blue Light| EL (Electroluminescent)| Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)

New Vision Display Announces a New Driver for its ZBD Displays

by Artem Alekseenko

New Vision Display, a Shenzhen-based company, has announced that their R&D teams in China and the UK, have jointly developed a custom driver for their ZBD displays. This new driver is able to support …

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Bright, efficient and stable LEDs made using nanocrystals of perovskite material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nature has published a paper that describes new perovskite LEDs (PeLEDs) made from perovskite nanocrystals (around 10nm) that have a coating of benzylphosphonic acid (BPA) via a ‘simple reaction’. The article said: …

Tags:LED| PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)

New Technique for Perovskite Patterning from Korea

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Perovskite-info.com reported a new R&D project to develop a new patterning technique for the production of perovskite nanocrystal displays which are ultra-thin and high-resolution. The technique uses a ‘stamp-like’ printing process. …

Tags:PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Starting 31st October 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. For the next couple of weeks, we …