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Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductor particles that exhibit unique optical and electronic properties. QDs have exciting applications in displays, solar cells, and biomedical imaging. QuantumDots-Info, established in 2020, is the world's leading microLED display industry portal, offering a web publication and newsletter.

Recent Quantum Dots News

SDC shows a cadmium-free QD-EL display prototype with a brightness of 400 nits

Samsung Display is showing a range of new OLED and microLED display prototypes at Displayweek 2025, and it also unveiled a new cadmium-free QD-EL device, which uses quantum dots as the emissive materials. The latest prototype from Samsung offers a 264 PPI resolution and 400 nits of brightness. 

Samsung QD-EL display prototype at Displayweek 2025

Samsung says that this panel has the highest luminance among all QD-EL prototypes disclosed to date. Samsung says that it managed to dramatically increase the lifetime of the blue QD emitting material.

Read the full story Posted: May 13,2025

DSCC: sales of QD films and diffuser plates grew 42% in 2024, growth to continue in 2025

According to Counterpoint Research (DSCC), Quantum Dots film and diffuser plate sales grew 42% in 2024, driven by demand from QD-LCD and MiniLED TVs. In the notebook segment, revenues grew 228%, mostly due to Apple's first adoption of QDs in MacBook Pro devices.

Counterpoint expects revenues to continue rising, and in 2025 the growth is forecasted to be 27.5% from 2024. The company acknowledges that the US tariffs and trade war may curb demand for premium displays, and Counterpoint has no clear visibility on that issue. 

Read the full story Posted: Apr 23,2025

Samsung's QD films receive RoHS and SGS compliance for no-cadmium content

Samsung Electronics announced that the quantum dot (QD) sheets used in its QD TVs received certification for compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive and has been verified to contain no cadmium by the global certification institute, Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS).

QD materials at Samsung Display - photo

Samsung says that it has actively developed QD materials and technologies, and has secured around 150 patents for the technology.

Read the full story Posted: Mar 25,2025

Samsung aims to commercialize QD-EL display in the next few years, to accelerate its R&D

According to reports from Korea, Samsung Electronics has decided to accelerate the development of its QD-EL display technology. Working together with its affiliate companies, Samsung aims to commercialize QD-EL displays within the next few year.

The reports suggests that Samsung Electronics is working closely with SAIT (Samsung's advanced research institute) and Samsung Display. QD-EL displays are similar to OLED displays, but they use quantum dots as the emitter material. This is the first display technology that uses the QD's electroluminescence, rather than the photoluminescence, used in color conversion for QD-LCDs, QD-powered microLEDs, and QD-OLEDs.

Read the full story Posted: Mar 20,2025

Apple adopts red QD films for the first time in its latest M4 MacBook Pro laptops

Apple launched its latest laptops, the M4 MacBook Pro models, and according to DSSC the new displays adopt a red quantum dot film for the first time.

Up until now, Apple used red KSF phosphor films, but the QDs offer more accurate and vivid colors as the emission spectrum is narrower. In the past Apple opted for KSF because this technology does not use any Cadmium and it is lower in cost. Apple's new QD films are Cadmium-free.

Read the full story Posted: Nov 16,2024

Avantama set to sell its perovskie quantum dot IP portfolio

Material developer Avantama announced that it is set to sell its entire perovskite QD IP portfolio. The company says that it has managed to bring the technology to market-readyness level, and is looking for a company that will bring it to market. 

Ocean Tomo Transactions (a part of J.S. Held) will be representing Avantama in the sale of its pQD IP portfolio. The company has developed over 220 IP assets, which includes patents on processes, compositions, formulations, films, and devices for the commercialization of semiconductor nanoparticle and quantum dot inks and films.

Read the full story Posted: Nov 13,2024

Hansol Chemical files a complaint against TCL at the FTC, saying its QD-LED TVs do not contain quantum dots materials

A couple of months ago we reported that Korean QD developer Hansol Chemical commissioned SGS and Intertek to test some of TCL's QLED TVs, finding that these do not in fact contain any Cadmium or Indium. Hansol  has now filed a complaint with the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) in the US against TCL, saying that it falsely advertised its TVs as QD-LED TVs.

TCL QDEL TV photo

In its FTC complaint, Hansol mentioned three TCL TV models: C755, C655 and C655 PRO. This will be interesting to watch.

Read the full story Posted: Nov 12,2024

Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University developed a new QD-EL HTL material that significantly enhances the brightness and stability

Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University developed a source material for the inorganic hole transport layer of QD-EL devices. The researchers say that the new material significantly enhances the brightness and stability of emissive QD displays.

The researchers say that currently used organic HTL materials suffer from low conductivity and thermal instability. The new material is a standard HTL doped by defect-controlled nickel oxide-magnesium oxide alloy and treated with magnesium hydroxide. Using the new material, the EQE of the QD-EL device increased to 16.4%. The doping and treatment lowered the hole conductivity of the hole transport layer and suppressed the hole extraction process from within the quantum dots, thereby enhancing the device efficiency to a level comparable to existing technologies.

Read the full story Posted: Nov 02,2024

Samsung Display developed a technology to recover and refine quantum dots inks at its QD-OLED production process

Samsung Display announced that it has developed a new technology that can recover around 80% of the quantum dots ink used in its QD-OLED production process. The recovered inks is refined through advanced synthesis technology that revives its purity and optical properties. The company will apply this technology, to its process and it is expected to save around 10 billion Won (around $7.3 million USD) each year in QD materials cost.

QD materials at Samsung Display - photo

It turns out that even though the QD layers are inkjet printed, there is still significant waste of materials, as around 20% of the total QD ink used in the process remains in the nozzles and cannot be used. This new technology will enable SDC to make its QD-OLED panels more competitive with other large-area panel technologies.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 28,2024