Quantum Materials Corporation announced today that it has shipped tetrapod quantum dots in sample quantities to a diversified Asian-based electronics manufacturer. Quantum Materials recently developed cadmium-selenide (CdSe) tetrapod quantum dots to meet the client’s performance specifications.
Tetrapod quantum dots are a nano-scale material that improves the performance and energy efficiency of high-resolution computer, TV and smart-phone displays. Quantum Materials’ patent-pending continuous-flow technology produces uniform, narrow-bandwidth, tetrapod quantum dots with bright emission, less aggregation, pure colours (including high-luminous red) and precise colour rendition.
Manufacturers are seeking to “print” tetrapod quantum dots onto backplane films in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for bright images, large screens and a wide gamut of colours to deliver a new visual experience in image technology. Thinner, lighter, brighter quantum-dot light-emitting diode (QLED) displays, including portable and flexible devices, will offer many contrast levels, deep black levels and high light output without motion blur or field-of-view issues.
Photo 1: CdSe tetrapod quantum dots: luminescent vials show how the colour varies with quantum dot size. (PRNewsFoto/Quantum Materials Corporation)
David C. Doderer, vice president of research and development for Quantum Materials, wrote the feature article in the July/August 2013 issue of iSP Magazine entitled “Quantum Dots: The Next Generation of Displays.” The article details Quantum Materials’ ability to reduce the cost of quantum dot creation while ensuring uniformity in quantities sufficient to meet high volume display-manufacturing needs.
Photo 2: CdSe tetrapod quantum dots as seen by electron microscope. (PRNewsFoto/Quantum Materials Corporation)
NanoMarkets’ August article “Key Quantum Dots Markets” highlighted Quantum Materials and the need for “cost-effective large-scale manufacturing techniques, which will be the key to the commercialisation of cost-effective and high-performance [quantum dots].”
Susan Eustis of WinterGreen Research stated in the 2013 report “Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display (QLED): Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, Nanotechnology, 2013 to 2019,” “Once manufacturers learn to integrate higher efficiency luminescent quantum dots into their products, each vendor will need to follow or dramatically lose market share. This level of change brought by quantum dot and quantum dot displays (QLED) represents a new paradigm that will create new industries, products and jobs in science and industry.”
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