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Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductor particles that exhibit unique optical and electronic properties. QDs have exciting applications in displays, solar cells, and biomedical imaging. QuantumDots-Info, established in 2020, is the world's leading microLED display industry portal, offering a web publication and newsletter.

Recent Quantum Dots News

Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University developed a new QD-EL HTL material that significantly enhances the brightness and stability

Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University developed a source material for the inorganic hole transport layer of QD-EL devices. The researchers say that the new material significantly enhances the brightness and stability of emissive QD displays.

The researchers say that currently used organic HTL materials suffer from low conductivity and thermal instability. The new material is a standard HTL doped by defect-controlled nickel oxide-magnesium oxide alloy and treated with magnesium hydroxide. Using the new material, the EQE of the QD-EL device increased to 16.4%. The doping and treatment lowered the hole conductivity of the hole transport layer and suppressed the hole extraction process from within the quantum dots, thereby enhancing the device efficiency to a level comparable to existing technologies.

Read the full story Posted: Nov 02,2024

Samsung Display developed a technology to recover and refine quantum dots inks at its QD-OLED production process

Samsung Display announced that it has developed a new technology that can recover around 80% of the quantum dots ink used in its QD-OLED production process. The recovered inks is refined through advanced synthesis technology that revives its purity and optical properties. The company will apply this technology, to its process and it is expected to save around 10 billion Won (around $7.3 million USD) each year in QD materials cost.

QD materials at Samsung Display - photo

It turns out that even though the QD layers are inkjet printed, there is still significant waste of materials, as around 20% of the total QD ink used in the process remains in the nozzles and cannot be used. This new technology will enable SDC to make its QD-OLED panels more competitive with other large-area panel technologies.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 28,2024

Researchers develop a highly efficient QD-EL device by identifying the presence of leakage electrons

Researchers from China's Southern University of Science and Technology, by simultaneously measuring the electroluminescence-photoluminescence, have identified the presence of leakage electrons in QD-EL devices, which leads to the discrepancy of the electroluminescence and the photoluminescence roll-off.

The researchers then developed a single photon counting technique, the enables them to detect the weak photon signals and thus provides a means to visualize the electron transport paths at different voltages. By reducing the amount of leakage electrons, the researchers developed a QD-EL device with an internal power conversion efficiency of over 98%.

Read the full story Posted: Sep 18,2024

Hansol Chemical, SGS and Intertek question whether TCL actually uses QDs in its QLED panels

Korean QD producer Hansol Chemical, has conducted an analysis on some of TCL's QLED panels, and concluded that in fact these panels do not contain any quantum dots. Hansol commissioned SGS and Intertek to actually perform the study, on TCL's C755, C655 and C655 Pro models.

Hansol says that TCL's TVs do not contain any indium or cadmium at all, which proves the TVs do not contain quantum dots. TCL responded by saying that the TVs do in fact contain Cadmium, although perhaps at a very trace amount not detected by SHS and Intertek. TCL further says that the method used is not sufficient to detect the exact content of Cadmium.

Read the full story Posted: Sep 11,2024

Korean researchers use double-layer dry transfer printing to create highly efficient QD-EL displays

Researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), and the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have developed a new method, called double-layer dry transfer printing, to create highly efficiency QD-EL displays.

The researchers say that with the double-layer dry transfer printing technique, the light-emitting and electron-transferring layers of the device can be transferred onto a substrate simultaneously, which reduces interfacial resistance in the device, which facilitates electron injection and the control of leakage charge transport during the fabrication process. The researchers, by minimizing the leakage current, managed to increase the EQE of the QLED device to 23.3%, up from around 5% that is achieved with normal dry transfer printing. 

Read the full story Posted: Aug 30,2024

Samsung shows an inkjet-printed 18.2" QD-EL prototype

During Displayweek 2024, Samsung demonstrated its latest display prototypes, focusing mostly on flexible OLEDs, and QD-OLEDs.

The company also showed a 18.2" 3200x1800 (202 PPI) 250 nits QD-EL display, that was produced using an inkjet-printing process, based on cadmium-free QDs.

Read the full story Posted: May 22,2024

TCL CSoT shows a 14" inkjet printed QD-EL display, announced a $1 million prize to accelerate the technology

TCL CSoT demonstrated a 14" 2.8K inkjet-printed QD-EL display, that offers 30-120Hz VRR refresh rates and a 85% BT2020 color gamut. The impressive display won SID Displayweek's People's Choice Award.

TCL's CEO gave a keynote speech at Displayweek, saying how this is an early-stage technology that still has a lot of challenges before it can be commercialized - mainly the lifetime of the blue material. To encourage collaboration and innovation, TCL CSOT announced the Blue Star Project with a $1 million prize to incentivize collaboration and accelerate breakthroughs in QD-EL technology.

Read the full story Posted: May 19,2024

Sony places a miniLED QLED TV at the top of its 2024 TV lineup

Sony announced its 2024 TV lineup, and the top model, the Bravia 9, is a Mini-LED backlit QLED TV. The entry-level model (the Bravia 7) is also a QLED display, while the mid-range model, the Bravia 8, is based on LGD's WOLED panels.

Sony Bravia 8 OLED TV photo

The Bravia 9, Sony's flagship 2024 model, is available in 65-, 75, and 85-inch versions. At 4,000 nits, it is Sony's brightest TV ever, and it includes its XR Triluminos Pro technology and its latest XR Processor.

Read the full story Posted: Apr 18,2024

Researchers from the IBS in Korea developed intrinsically stretchable quantum dot LED displays

Researchers from Korea's Institute for Basic Science, led by Professor KIM Dae-Hyeong, published a new article in Nature that details intrinsically stretchable quantum dot LEDs. 

The researchers say that using current technology, making stretchable light-emitting devices results in poor luminous performance. The researchers now produced the intrinsically stretchable QD-LEDs using a mechanically soft and stretchable emissive layer consisting of a ternary nanocomposite of colloidal quantum dots, an elastomeric polymer and a charge transport polymer.

Read the full story Posted: Apr 16,2024

Samsung's QD-OLED technology's future is uncertain

Samsung Display recently decided to move around 500 engineers from its large-area QD-OLED business unit to its small-and-medium sized AMOLED business unit. This move could signal a change in SDC's confidence in its QD-OLED technology.

Samsung QD-OLED panel photo

A new article at OLED-Info discusses the technology and market challenges of QD-OLEDs, the recent activities in the display industry and market - and states that Samsung may be not invest further in its QD-OLED technology.

Read the full story Posted: Apr 08,2024