Recent Quantum Dots News - Page 2

Quantum Dots technology is being used today in display applications such as LCDs, OLEDs and MicroLEDs. It is expected that adoption QDs in the display industry will continue to grow in the future. Here are some recent and popular news that you may find of interest:

• Samsung aims to commercialize QD-EL displays in the next few years, to accelerate its R&D
• SDC shows a cadmium-free QD-EL display prototype with a brightness of 400 nits
• Sharp demonstrates 12-inch and 30-inch QD-EL display prototypes
• The QD materials market to reach $100 million in 2024 and $122 by 2027
• TCL CSoT shows a 14" inkjet printed QD-EL display
• TCL launches the world's largest miniLED QLED TV at 115-inch
• Samsung developed a technology to recover and refine QD-OLED inks
• The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for the discovery of quantum dots
• Apple adopts red QD films for the first time in its latest M4 MacBook Pro laptops
• IDTechEx: The global QD market will reach $550 million by 2034
• Shoei Chemical acquires leading QD developer Nanosys
• Canon announces new quantom-dot inks for display applications
• Samsung developed an all-printed 12.4" 182 PPI EL-QD display
• Newly-developed perovskite QDs are promising for display color conversion applications

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 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.

Display Week 2025 will be held from May 11 to 16 at the San Jose Convention Center, and as always, we can expect a lot of quantum dots technologies at the event.

Nanosys posted a very nice blog post that details its favorite talks and events during Displayweek, and this could be a nice resource for anyone interested in QDs in the display industry.

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. 

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.