קפיצה קוונטית מהמעבדה להייטק: ננוגבישים מוליכים למחצה לתאורה ולמסכים
אורי בנין המכון לכימיה והמרכז לננומדע ולננוטכנולוגיה
יום חדשנות טכנולוגית בתחום החומרים המתקדמים Nanocrystal Science and Technology
30 nm
Bulk Tunable colors through band size, composition & gap shape control
Synthesis – scalable manufacturing
• Cost effective scalable wet chemical synthesis applicable to different Semiconductors • Chemically processable through surface providing flexible manipulations in solutions, plastic films, electrodes
Qlight Nanotech – Overview
• A Hebrew University spin-off company founded in 2009 • Based on inventions from professor Uri Banin lab • Strategic cooperation with Merck KGaA, fully owned by Merck since summer 2015 • Labs located in Jerusalem, Israel (in the Safra Campus) • Team of highly qualified scientists
Qlight develops innovative nanocrystal enabled products for flat panel displays and solid state lighting markets
The story of Qlight Nanotech: From Bright Idea to Successful Company
• 2001 – Professor Uri Banin research on Nanorods
• 2008 – Nofar project of OCS on Nanorods switchable display
• 2009 – Qlight established as a company on campus
• 2012 – First equity investment by Merck
• 2013 – Second equity investment by Merck
• 2014 – Blue-Chip JDA partners
• 2015 – Qlight acquired by Merck Qlight Nanotech – Nanotechnology Company of the Year 2014 Award presented by Chief Scientist of Israel, Ministry of Economy A World of Displays…
Indoor Outdoor
Mobile Liquid crystal display (LCD) operation principle
Liquid Crystal Display schematic
Challenges: • Better colors • Low energy consumption & long battery life
ABEF: Active Brightness Enhancement Film;
The ABEF converts blue LED light into RGB light.
Illustration of ABEF film: quantum rods are excited by blue LEDs to give R-G-B light ABEF: Outstanding Display Colors – OLED like colors with LCD
• Highly saturated Red, Green and Blue colors are obtained due to the narrow emission bands. • Color gamut increases significantly. Gamut can be tuned to cover NTSC, sRGB and beyond. • Energy saving
Regular display With ABEF Optical Switching in single nanorods under electric field
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Electric Electric -175
0 50 m 2.00 2.02 2.04 2.06 m Energy (eV) Switching
Eli Rothenberg, Miri Kazes, Ehud Shaviv, Uri Banin, “Electric field induced switching of the fluorescence of single semiconductor quantum rods“, Nano Letters 5, 1581 (2005). “Printed electronics”: Nanocrystal Displays, back lights,LEDs transistors, sensors
SiO2 Si
Solar energy and environmental: Biomedical apps: passive and Photocatalysis active functions Thank you!
My Research group Nanocenter team Yissum team Merck partners Office of the Chief Scientist
Qlight Nanotech team
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