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Zeiss and Deutsche Telekom launch tooz DevKit smart glasses in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported a link to the Tooz devkit launch in Germany, but optics.org dug a little deeper. The kit was launched in China in January and is now available in Germany. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)| Waveguide Display

With new optical device, Stanford engineers can fine tune the color of light

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group from Stanford University has published a paper on April 23 in Nature Communications, that allows engineers to fine tune the frequencies of individual photons in a stream of light …

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

IBM 2nm chip breakthrough claims more power with less energy

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IBM said that it has developed a chip with 2nm features that would improve performance by 45% over current 7nm chips and reduce power consumption by 75%. That would allow battery …

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

Apple Commits $430 Billion in US Investments Over Five Years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple said that it planned to invest $430 billion in the US over the next five years and committed to build a new North Carolina Campus in the Research Triangle Area. …

Tags:Apple| Investment| R&D (Research & Development)| USA

Apple Wins a Patent for ‘Thermal Touch’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Patently Apple blog reported that Apple has got a patent for ‘thermal touch’ based on using data from infrared sensors. The technology is reported to be based on work done …

Tags:Apple| Patents| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch

Zymergen Uses Biology to Make Polyimide Films

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the news about Touch Taiwan, I spotted a company that we haven’t reported on before, Zymergen, which makes films. The firm is based in the US, but has offices in …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch

Ion Exchange Used to Make Perovskite LEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from the AMOLF lab of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have developed a new way of creating a reactive ink based on perovskites. The material is created by ‘painting’ …

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

SLAC Looks at QDs Very Closely

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have published a paper via Nature that describes how the group has used lasers to stimulate quantum …

Tags:Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)| USA

Links Week Ending 23rd April 2021

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 second part of this week. Previewing Q1’21 Display Supplier Earnings – What …

What’s a Kyulux?

by Ken Werner

The subject is emitting materials for OLED displays. Let’s review. What are now called first-generation materials were (and are) fluorescent emitters. Without troubling you with molecular quantum mechanics, these materials eventually create a maximum …

Tags:OLED Materials| R&D (Research & Development)| TADF

New LED Technology Enables Emission of Circularly Polarized Light

by Arthur Berman

There are real incentives to develop LED materials and device configurations that emit circularly polarized light. Using conventional approaches, close to half of the unpolarized light produced by an LED can be blocked by …

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

IRT Points to the Need for 3D Colour Measurement in HDR

by Bob Raikes

Today, I’m going to dig down into the weeds of a topic that has become important in the display industry in recent years, especially since the arrival of HDR, and that is colour volumes. …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| R&D (Research & Development)