By Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
One of the first working full-color quantum-dot displays was shown off at a conference this week by a startup company that is working to commercialize the technology. Quantum dots are nanoparticles made of inorganic materials that very efficiently emit a specific color of light (depending on the size of the dot) when they’re excited either by a beam of light or by an electrical current. Quantum-dot displays promise low power consumption and rich, beautiful color, much like organic light-emitting diode displays (OLEDs). But QD Vision, the company that demonstrated the prototype display, believes they will also prove less expensive to make than OLEDs at the huge scales favored by display manufacturers.
http://technologyreview.com/computing/37594/?p1=MstRcnt
Share on Facebook