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Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology and MIIT have developed perovskite quantum dots microarrays with strong potential for quantum dots color conversion (QDCC) display applications.

Perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) hold potential as an attractive material and can resolve some of the problems found in conventional QDCC. While perovskite quantum dots are relatively new, they have already been shown to have attractive properties that make them extremely suited for electronic and optoelectronic applications.

Researchers from Japan's Hiroshima University developed a new technique to create efficient silicon quantum dots from recycled rice husks. Rice husk is a good source of high-purity silica (SiO₂) and silicon powder.

The researchers created SiQDs that luminescence in the orange-red range with a high luminescence efficiency of over 20%. From the QDs the researchers created LEDs based on ITO glass substrates, using spin-coating to process the SiQDs.

Notion Systems, a leading solution provider for industrial inkjet systems, announced that it had successfully installed an n.jet display system at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). The n.jet display system was developed in collaboration with MBraun/Germany and includes a fully integrated inert glove box solution that combines compact design with minimized nitrogen consumption.

ITRI is now using the new n.jet display system to research and develop novel QLED and OLED technologies. ITRI is looking to replace vapor deposition and vacuum coating with inkjet printing which could reduce the number of steps, increase material utilization and increase display quality.

UK-based OTFT-developer SmartKem and QD pioneer Nanosys announced a joint-development project to work on low-cost printed QD displays, that will combine SmartKem's printed organic TFT with Nanosys' quantum dots emitter platform.

Nanosys now refers to its emissive (electroluminescent) QD technology as nanoLED. Both technology platforms, the OTFT backplane and the NanoLED frontplane are solution-based, which could indeed result in a low-cost production process.

A research team from POSTECH in Korea developed a new method of arranging quantum dots based on the coffee ring effect. The researchers dispersed the QD particles in a solution, and then evaporated it to perform the deposition, which causes the particles to automatically assemble in certain areas, like the edges of a single solution drop.

The researchers report that the QDs self-arranged in the form of very fine pixels, as they used a V-shaped structure. The QDs are driven toward the inner tips of the V-shape and accumulate there. This enables the creation of QD-based pixels that are 20 times brighter compared to regular QDs deposited without the V-shaped structure, and have a high uniformity rate of over 98%.

An international team of researchers from Singapore, the US and China, led by a team at Singapore-MIT alliance SMART, discovered a new way to generate long-wavelength (red, orange and yellow) emitting quantum dots by taking advantage of intrinsic defects in semiconducting materials.

The researchers fabricate InGaN QDs that feature a significantly higher indium concentration by making use of pre-existing defects in InGaN materials. In this process, the coalescence of so-called V-pits, which result from naturally-existing dislocations in the material, directly forms indium-rich quantum dots, small islands of material that emit longer-wavelength light. Simply put, the material forms itself in a structure that includes small 'pyramids' - the tops of which are actually light-emitting quantum dots.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have assessed the status of research into colloidal quantum dot lasers with a focus on prospective electrically pumped devices, or laser diodes.

Their review analyzes the challenges for developing lasing with electrical excitation, and presents approaches to overcome them.

Last year, Poland-based Ergis Group launched an OLED encapsulation film platform called Ergis noDiffusion®. The company is currently testing its film solutions at customer sites in Asia, the EU and the US, and it is now starting to offer the same platform for the protection of quantum dot films (QD films) used in display and lighting applications.

These new films can be tuned to fit specific needs. Ergis can deploy its films on several substrate types, with varying film thickness, and the barrier properties can be tuned to be between 10-6 to 10-3. This means that custom films can be created to suit the specific sensitivity of the QDs for water vapor and to achieve specific product lifetime or other required properties.

Researchers from Northwestern University developed a perovskite quantum-dots based emitter that features high stability, self-healing and very high brightness.

Perovskite QDs can realize single photon emission at room temperature and have excellent optical properties. The research team has developed a unique spray-synthesis method to create these pQDs which greatly increases the contact area of two different solutions, making it possible to grow a uniform protective organic layer on the surface of the quantum dots.