Quantum Dot Television Technology Becoming a Reality

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British scientists at Manchester University have developed a new form of light emitting crystal, known as a quantum dot. The tiny technology is so small that it can actually be printed onto a surface, opening up brand new horizons for display options. Initially, the quantum dots will be used in traditional flat screen architecture and should be in the marketplace by late 2012

"Something else we are looking at is reels of wallpaper or curtains made out of a material that has quantum dots printed on it. You can imagine displaying scenes of the sun rising over a beach as you wake up in the morning."
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Full-motion porn on every wall in my home 24/7? This is best thing to come along since penicillin!
 
Pop this on the queue of display technologies that we'll never see in mass TV/monitor production for at least a decade.
 
You can imagine displaying scenes of the sun rising over a beach as you wake up in the morning.
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Unless skillfully executed I see uses like this becoming tacky crap that people fawn over for a while then becomes embarassing bullshit a few short years later...
 
I wasn't expecting this till 2015 or so. Nice thing about this is that its response time is below 1ms. Which means no more motion blur. Also it doesn't have the problems oled has with longevity. I Think they made a working prototype around a year ago.
 
Galvin said:
I wasn't expecting this till 2015 or so. Nice thing about this is that its response time is below 1ms. Which means no more motion blur. Also it doesn't have the problems oled has with longevity. I Think they made a working prototype around a year ago.
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Not only that but perfect blacks and color reproduction
 
drleospaceman said:
Pop this on the queue of display technologies that we'll never see in mass TV/monitor production for at least a decade.
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Actually if you read the article, they are closing licensing deals to have units out and about by late 2012 :p

You see, it is a very economically sound approach for the manufacturers with the rise of the rare earth elements prices by china.
 
Vaperware until I see pictures. signing licensing deals , and making displays for launch later this year are not remotely the same thing.

If the lead time on the next gen GPUs or say IvyBridge chips means that hardware samples are already built and tested well in advance of launch and production lasts for months ahead of release we should have samples to see.

Even SED had working displays at tradeshows and it never came out due to licensing.

If these aren't demoed at CES it wont come out in 2012.
 
Argh. Quantum dots are NOT new. IIRC, they came out of the dimensional exiton trapping experiments (so trapping the exiton in a single dimension or a point) at Bell Labs in the 50s. These have been around for years. I am pretty sure LG either already HAS a TV out or will next year that uses QLEDs. In this case it is just a modified white LED which instead of using the traditional phosphor uses a QDot phosphor. LG has been working very closely with Nanosys to develop QDot LEDs for the TVs. Nanosys is one of the other major players along with Samsung (who acquired their IP from Evident Technologies) and Nanoco. The white produced by these quantum dots is much richer and has a more full spectrum than those produced by the current phosphors. I saw NOTHING in that article that was really breaking news. It was all marketing spin. Nanoco has been around for years; long enough to get embroiled in an IP dispute with Nanosys (IIRC) and have it resovled over selling certain QDots as a SigmaAldrich product.

On a related note:
An instructable I just posted on how to make your own Quantum Dot LEDs.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Quantum-Dot-LEDs-Making-custom-color-LEDs/

I work in the QDot field for a biotech company. Its a fun field to work in. Honestly, I love my job more than should be allowed. Its kinda crazy that my first job in industry maybe the best possible job I could ever have.
 
PedroDaGr8 said:
Argh. Quantum dots are NOT new. IIRC, they came out of the dimensional exiton trapping experiments (so trapping the exiton in a single dimension or a point) at Bell Labs in the 50s. These have been around for years. I am pretty sure LG either already HAS a TV out or will next year that uses QLEDs. In this case it is just a modified white LED which instead of using the traditional phosphor uses a QDot phosphor. LG has been working very closely with Nanosys to develop QDot LEDs for the TVs. Nanosys is one of the other major players along with Samsung (who acquired their IP from Evident Technologies) and Nanoco. The white produced by these quantum dots is much richer and has a more full spectrum than those produced by the current phosphors. I saw NOTHING in that article that was really breaking news. It was all marketing spin. Nanoco has been around for years; long enough to get embroiled in an IP dispute with Nanosys (IIRC) and have it resovled over selling certain QDots as a SigmaAldrich product.

On a related note:
An instructable I just posted on how to make your own Quantum Dot LEDs.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Quantum-Dot-LEDs-Making-custom-color-LEDs/

I work in the QDot field for a biotech company. Its a fun field to work in. Honestly, I love my job more than should be allowed. Its kinda crazy that my first job in industry maybe the best possible job I could ever have.
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I was wrong it was QD-Vision that is working with LG, not Nanosys.

<self pimping>
if anyone can vote for me in the make it glow contest on instructables that would be great. :D
</self pimping.
 
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