The Israeli company Qlight Nanotech aims to enhance the quality and colors of LCD TV screens and LED lights while reducing energy consumption.
Its semiconductor nano-crystals with unique optical and electrical properties could be a panacea for next-generation flat-panel displays and could double the battery life of your smartphone, claims Qlight CEO Shlomo Amir.
The forward-thinking company is working full speed ahead on its nano-sized crystals for screens and mobile displays ?? promising an environmentally friendly alternative to dangerous chemicals and energy-guzzling technologies.
Qlight?s nano-crystals, originally developed at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by chemist Prof. Uri Banin, can convert light from the blue or UV wavelengths to any visible wavelength, allowing for ?unmatched color and wavelength accuracy while displaying high efficiency.?
In partnership with the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Merck, Qlight is already making headlines even though it is about two years away from putting a product on store shelves.
Making the startup nation proud, Qlight just won the Best Nanotech Company of the Year award at Nanotech Israel 2014.
Here is the difference between a regular display and one powered by Qlight?s technology.
Qlight will make colors more vivid, prices cheaper, and energy consumption much lower for display-based devices, Amir tells ISRAEL21c.
?Our material radiates light out at some specific wavelength of light. The exact wavelength is determined by the size, structure and compound which builds them,? says Amir. ?We can control that.?
Nanotechnology is an emerging science that focuses the uses of very tiny particles ? no bigger than 100 nanometers. Qlight?s crystals fall into that range, at four to eight nanometers. They are so small that they can only be seen with a special electron microscope.
According to Amir, 90 percent of liquid crystals for TVs and displays now on the market are supplied by his business partner Merck, which has owned half of the company since 2012. So the business potential can be massive.
