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… display size
… resolution
… contrast
… and brightness.
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Why Color Matters
300 Nits
Better color equates to higher perceived brightness.
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Quantum Dot Structure
Principle of Quantum Confinement
h+
e-
h+ e-
insulator
decreasing size
conduction band
Particle in a Box
Description of
Electronic States
valence
band
Narrow band blue, green and red delivers highly saturated colors
Saturated colors significantly expand color gamut
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QD Color Control in High-volume Manufacturing
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Modeling the Visible Color Spectrum: Color Gamuts
Television: NTSC
Digital Cinema: DCI-P3
Computers: Adobe RGB
Theoretical Maximum
• Full gamut can only
be achieved in theory
• Large FWHM of
green primary limits
RGB LED < 90%
• Spectrally broad
WOLED BLU and
leaky color filters
limits gamut to 66%
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Quantum Dots Are the Only Practical Path to Rec. 2020
• Large FWHM of
green primary limits
RGB LED < 90%
• Spectrally broad
WOLED BLU and
leaky color filters
limits gamut to 66%
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Quantum Dots Are the Only Practical Path to Rec. 2020
• Large FWHM of
green primary limits
RGB LED < 90%
• Spectrally broad
WOLED BLU and
leaky color filters
limits gamut to 66%
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Quantum Dots Are the Only Practical Path to Rec. 2020
WOLED spectrally broad light source and leaky filters limit gamut
• Full gamut can only
be achieved in theory
• Large FWHM of
green primary limits 400 450 500 550 600 650 700
RGB LED < 90%
• Spectrally broad
WOLED BLU and
leaky color filters
limits gamut to 66%
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Quantum Dots Are the Only Practical Path to Rec. 2020
• Large FWHM of
green primary limits
RGB LED < 90%
• Spectrally broad
WOLED BLU and
leaky color filters
limits gamut to 66%
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QDs operate in two modes
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Today’s Quantum Dot Photoluminescent Form Factors
QD Optic
LGP QD Film LGP
QD Film
LGP Panel
LGP
QD Optic
LGP
LED LED
LED
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Color IQTM Edge-optic Solution
LGP LGP
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Quantum Dot TV Products by Retail ASP – Sept. 2015
$6,000
$5,000
Estimated
2015 Unit
$4,000 Volume
List Price [$]
< 1.0 M
$3,000
2.5 M
$2,000
11.1 M
$1,000
+ 217 M
$0
< 45 50 55 60 65 70
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Quantum dot display market forecast
Touch Display Research forecast quantum dot component for display and
lighting market will reach $10.6 billion by 2025, from $75 million in 2013.
Source: Touch Display Research, Quantum dot display and lighting technologies and
market forecast 2015 report
QDs operate in two modes
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Why use quantum dots for printed electronics?
• Energy Efficiency
– Narrow color emission & low voltage operation offers ~2x improvement in
efficiency
– Potential to reach 90%+ IQE (same as PhOLED)
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Tunable, narrowband color
1.0
Normalized Intensity (a.u.)
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
400 500 600 700
Wavelength (nm)
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Tunable, narrowband infrared emission
0.9
1000 nm
0.8 1100 nm
0.7 1350 nm
Normalized Emission
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700
Wavelength (nm)
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Printable QLED Device Structure
Al
cathode
Anode
Organic
EIL HIL
Organic
ETL HTL
QDL
QDL
Metal Oxide
HTL ETL/EIL
ITOanode
Cathode
Substrate
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Scalable Manufacturing Process
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Ligands and Surface Morphology Effects
15 nm of organic material
(CBP) on QDs with
aliphatic ligands
15 nm of organic material
(CBP) on QDs with
alternative ligands
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High-Resolution Printing of QDs
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Ink-jet printing QDs
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Printed QDs for Full-color AMQLED Display Development
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Performance Potential of QLEDs
EQE = PL r e
20-25%*
100%
100%
100%
= >20%, similar to PhOLEDs
* Without outcoupling improvements
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High Efficiency Deep Red QLED Performance
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Low Voltage, High Brightness Devices
100000
10000
Luminance (cd/m)
2
1000
100
10
1
0 2 4 6 8 10
Bias (V)
Why QLED?
Best-in-class color
Best-in-class power
All the benefits of
printable displays
All the benefits of
emissive displays
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Wearable Microdisplay Demonstration
Why QLED?
(SVGA, 15 mm diagonal)
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Transparent QLEDs
Why QLED?
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Printable Infrared QLEDs
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Conclusions
Quantum Dots are bringing lifelike color to LCDs, will do the same to emissive
displays in the future, and are a major trend in the display industry today.
QD VISION, COLOR IQ, the COLOR IQ logo and BELIEVE YOUR EYES are trademarks of QD Vision, Inc.
Thank you!
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