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Cadmium-containing QDs are on the chopping block – RoHS update 2021 It’s no secret that the quantum dot industry has a love/hate relationship with the element cadmium (Cd). It is a common element used in QD technology, and QD types that utilize Cd (CdSe in particular) are by far the most studied materials which have… Continue reading Cadmium-containing QDs are on the chopping block – RoHS update 2021

Twelve Days of Displays You are all of course familiar with the 12 days of Christmas, so this holiday season I decided to catalog twelve of the displays I encounter most in my daily life with a short anecdote about each. Perhaps, like many of you, our daily lives are spent more and more at… Continue reading 12 Days of Displays

Covid Cannot Stop Science! (QD Forum and Phosphor Global Summit 2020) Originally scheduled for March of 2020, the virtual QD Forum and Phosphor Global Summit went off without a hitch in early November this year. What I love about this conference is the mix of industry professionals, super-smart academics, and startups with new ideas. It’s… Continue reading Covid Cannot Stop Science! (QD Forum and Phosphor Global Summit 2020)

OLED summit features QDs prominently Another virtual conference in the books. This time the OLED Summit. Just like last year, there were a few talks on EL-QLED devices as the OLED community wants to keep tabs on the competition (I suspect). I had intended on sharing my thoughts on the OLED summit with you earlier,… Continue reading OLED summit Features QDs Prominently

eL-QLED progress comes out of the “blue” It seems I’ve written a lot recently about EL-QLED progress, even though commercialization would appear to be still many years off. But it is just so interesting I can’t help myself! You may recall I lamented about the status of blue EL-QLED (electroluminescent QLED) earlier this year in… Continue reading EL-QLED Progress Comes Out of the Blue

SID Display Week 2020: QD Review Part 2 As a follow up to last week’s article SID Display Week 2020: QD Review Part 1 where I covered the business conference, this article will dive deeper into the technical progress I saw at the conference, specifically around QD technology. The following summarizes the important progress I… Continue reading SID Display Week 2020: QD Review Part 2

SID Display Week 2020: QD Review Part 1 Well, I made it through hours and hours of talks about quantum dots and display technology at the first-ever virtual SID Display Week! To be honest, there were some things I rather enjoyed about the virtual format. It allowed me to skip things I didn’t want to… Continue reading SID Display Week 2020: QD Review Part 1

Attending a display conference… on a display… in my pajamas There is something ironic about SID Display Week this year. The week-long conference about display technology will be viewed exclusively on displays. I have always though it strange that the lowest form of display (the poorly focused conference projector with color gamut ~50% of sRGB)… Continue reading Attending a Display Conference… on a Display… In my Pajamas

Singing the EL-QLED Blues Perhaps you have been putting on some old blues records to get you through this turbulent time. It’s a normal thing to feel a little down about the world right now. And some days I feel the same way about blue emitters for next-generation display technology. Sure, blue LED technology has… Continue reading Singing the EL-QLED Blues

Kateeva out SEMES in – QDOLED I wanted to write about an event that I look forward to every year, the QD Forum. Unfortunately, given the current pandemic, the event had to be postponed. When the QD Forum does happen, you can bet I’ll be there to report on it! In the meantime, I offer… Continue reading Kateeva out SEMES in – QDOLED