QD Vision and Solvay partner on printable platform for quantum-dot LEDs
Watertown, MA--Quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (LEDs) manufacturer QD Vision and Solvay (Brussels, Belgium), a global industrial group focused on innovative and sustained processes in chemistry, announced an agreement under which the companies will develop a printable electroluminescent platform for quantum-dot LEDs (QLEDs) that they say will lead to a new generation of solid-state lighting products that will deliver extraordinary color quality.
Developed by QD Vision, QLEDs are a reliable, energy efficient, tunable color solution for display and lighting applications that reduce manufacturing costs using ultra-thin, transparent, or flexible materials. QLEDs utilize printing technologies to enable the manufacture of electroluminescent lighting devices in a wide variety of form factors, efficiently, at high volume and at low cost.
Quantum dots provide the stability and reliability of inorganic semiconductor materials, and can be processed in solution. This unique capability enables the efficient manufacture of next generation electroluminescent solid state light sources with extraordinary color quality, efficiency, and stability.
"Our Strategic partnership with Solvay is the first step in creating an ecosystem of solutions required to commercialize the QLED materials that will lead to a new generation of energy-efficient, solid state lighting products," said Jason Carlson, QD Vision president and CEO.
Leveraging a first-tier patent position in nanotechnology originating at MIT, QD Vision is a privately held company.
SOURCE: QD Vision; www.qdvision.com/content1435
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Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.