Another day, another step closer to quantum dot reality. Today, Nanosys unveiled its new Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEFTM), marking the primary time that the nanotechnology is on the market for LCD manufacturers. In accordance with the corporate, its optical film can deliver as much as 60 percent of all colors visible to the human eye, compared with the 20 to twenty-five percent that the majority displays offer. To create QDEFTM, Nanosys’ engineers suspended a mix of quantum dots within optical film and applied it to a blue LED, which helped get the nanocrystals excited. When they started hopping around, the dots emitted high-quality white light and a rich, wide color gamut, without consuming as much power as white LED-based materials. No word yet on after we can expect to peer QDEFTM in consumer displays, but Nanosys claims that the film is “process-ready” and straightforward for manufacturers to integrate. For now, that you can amuse yourselves by comparing both frogs pictured above and guessing which one is roofed in quantum dots. Full PR after the break.
Announces the discharge of First of Its Kind QDEFTM High Color Gamut Optical Film for LCDs, Ushers in New Era of Content Creation and Experience
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nanosys, Inc., a complicated materials architect, today announced that its next generation LCD technology, the Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEFTM), is accessible to display manufacturers. Device designers can now increase color gamut by up to 3 times without making the trade offs in cost, size and brightness they’ve needed to make prior to now. This suggests richer, more viscerally vibrant reds and a deeper palette of greens – the colour the human eye sees more intensely than the other color.
QDEFTM represents the primary time that quantum dot technology is out there to display makers in an optical film, which are scaled to any size including large televisions. The present generation of displays in smartphones, tablets, laptops and massive format TVs can only express 20 to 35 percent of the colours the human eye can see. QDEFTM displays will unleash an entire new level of content creation and revolutionize user experience by delivering over 60 percent of visible colors.
“We believe color could be a major differentiator for early adopters of quantum dot technology; and, QDEFTM will give display makers a competitive edge by providing consumers with a colour quality experience they’ve only seen in movie theaters and professionally printed photos,” said Jason Hartlove, president and CEO of Nanosys. “Just about all content available today needs to be dialed right down to match the limited capabilities of current displays, but with a QDEFTM enabled display developers and producers can create a photograph-quality color experience for the user.”
Designed to be process-ready, display makers can easily integrate QDEFTM into current manufacturing operations without retooling an existing line, as is the case with other technologies. This not just extends the lifetime of their current capital expenditures, it enables the reuse of apparatus, reducing industrial waste.
QDEFTM is engineered using Nanosys’ patented quantum dot materials dispersed in a polymer matrix and suspended within an optical film. The advanced material creates a higher quality white light with an unprecedented range of hues when enthusiastic about an energy-efficient blue LED. This leads to better color and fewer power consumption than when using white LEDs.
Last year, Nanosys commercialized its quantum dot technology with the QuantumRailTM, a process-ready component for smaller format LCDs that improves color gamut and tool efficiency. The corporate plans to expand its manufacturing capacity because it continues to commercialize its LCD and effort storage technologies.
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