Forget 3D, here comes the QD TV
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8948484/Forget-3D-here-comes-the-QD-TV.html
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If you love your flat panel TV is great, or if you think 3D is the coolest thing since sliced bread, you aint seen nothing yet...
Television screens that can be rolled up and carried in a pocket are to become a reality using technology developed by British scientists.
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
8:45AM GMT 11 Dec 2011
Researchers have developed a new form of light-emitting crystals, known as quantum dots, which can be used to produce ultra-thin televisions.
The tiny crystals, which are 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, can be printed onto flexible plastic sheets to produce a paper-thin display that can be easily carried around, or even onto wallpaper to create giant room-size screens.
The scientists hope the first quantum dot televisions – like current flat-screen TVs, but with improved colour and thinner displays – will be available in shops by the end of next year. A flexible version is expected to take at least three years to reach the market.
Michael Edelman, chief executive of Nanoco, a spin out company set up by the scientists behind the technology at Manchester University, said: "We are working with some major Asian electronics companies. The first products we are expecting to come to market using quantum dots will be the next generation of flat-screen televisions.
"The real advantage provided by quantum dots, however, is that they can be printed on to a plastic sheet that can rolled up. It is likely these will be small personal devices to begin with.
Read the original article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8948484/Forget-3D-here-comes-the-QD-T...
Television screens that can be rolled up and carried in a pocket are to become a reality using technology developed by British scientists.
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
8:45AM GMT 11 Dec 2011
Researchers have developed a new form of light-emitting crystals, known as quantum dots, which can be used to produce ultra-thin televisions.
The tiny crystals, which are 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, can be printed onto flexible plastic sheets to produce a paper-thin display that can be easily carried around, or even onto wallpaper to create giant room-size screens.
The scientists hope the first quantum dot televisions – like current flat-screen TVs, but with improved colour and thinner displays – will be available in shops by the end of next year. A flexible version is expected to take at least three years to reach the market.
Michael Edelman, chief executive of Nanoco, a spin out company set up by the scientists behind the technology at Manchester University, said: "We are working with some major Asian electronics companies. The first products we are expecting to come to market using quantum dots will be the next generation of flat-screen televisions.
"The real advantage provided by quantum dots, however, is that they can be printed on to a plastic sheet that can rolled up. It is likely these will be small personal devices to begin with.
Read the original article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8948484/Forget-3D-here-comes-the-QD-T...
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