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Nuclear Fusion Getting Nearer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There has been lots of talk about the feasibility of generating clean power with nuclear fusion after a successful experiment that suggested it might be achievable. A group at the Lawrence …

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

Nitto Denko Challenges Flexibility With LCD

by Bob Raikes

At the recent Display Week, there were many papers presented on rollable and flexible displays and Samsung set out the importance and significance of stretchable displays. Most of the talks focused on OLEDs, but …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| LCD Panels| Polarisers| R&D (Research & Development)| SID Display Week 2021

A New Method of Controlling Light Emission from QDs is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Professor Kyoung-Duck Park of the Department of Physics within the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, Republic of Korea) is developing a novel means of controlling …

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

A Dissolvable Smartwatch Makes for Easier Electronics Recycling  

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Wearable Technology reported on a paper from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that describes a two-metal nanocomposite for circuits that disintegrates when submerged in water. They demonstrated the circuits in a …

Tags:Printed Electronics| R&D (Research & Development)| Screen Printing| Smartwatches| Solution Processing| Wearables

3D Printed Perovskite Enables Fabrication of High Resolution Pixels

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Mojun Chen within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong University along with team members from the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (Changwon-si, South Korea) have reported success …

Tags:Colour Filters| Perovskite| R&D (Research & Development)

Researchers demonstrated a self-healing crystalline material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A report published in the Science Journal covered work by Indian scientists to create a new crystalline material that is said to be capable of self-healing, but might be usable to …

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

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New metasurface can tune laser light without additional components

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A team of researchers at Harvard have developed a metasurface that can tune the amplitude, phase, and polarization properties of laser light, including the wavelength. No additional components are needed. The …

Tags:Holography| Laser| R&D (Research & Development)

Big Claims for an ITO Replacement Film

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from the University of Sydney claims to have developed a film that can act as a substitute for ITO to reduce the dependence on indium (as well as being cheaper) …

Tags:CNTs (Carbon Nanotubes)| ITO Replacement| R&D (Research & Development)| Vapour Deposition

How Black is Black?

by Bob Raikes

SID’s Display Week Symposium and the Business Conference are the gifts that keep giving. It seems that if I spend any time digging into the content, it always brings a reward. A paper and …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)| SID Display Week 2021| Testing

3D Display Exploits Integral Imaging in Tabletop Display

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Sen-Lin Pang of the College of Electronics and Information Engineering at Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) is developing an innovative integral imaging display system. First, a few words of …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| R&D (Research & Development)

CReal Demoes AR with its Light Fields

by Bob Raikes

What They Say CReal has published another ‘through the display’ example of its headset light field technology in an AR headset. The video highlights the way that the focus at different depths is ‘natural’ …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Light Field Displays| R&D (Research & Development)