Quantum Materials Takes Early Delivery of New Production System
North American quantum dot manufacturer Quantum Materials Corp has announced taking early delivery of a new quantum dot (QD) production system over eight times larger than its current installed capacity.
The new continuous-flow process equipment will increase production capacity by 2,000kg, according to the company, and fits within a wet lab at its headquarters in San Marcos, Texas.
David Doderer, Quantum Materials' vice president for r&d said: "The system's early delivery demonstrates our ability to both quickly replicate our process and also scale production to meet the new industrial demand currently exploding in the HD television and display sector."
He continued: "We note that as quantum dots offer new levels of performance, adoption by manufacturers has historically been tempered by concerns of sufficient, stable supply. A few years ago I wrote an article predicting that a small-capital-expense flow system could be built to produce 30,000kg of quantum dots per year for high capacity solar projects.
"The delivery of this new automated system shows we are rapidly progressing on that path for multiple industries. We believe quantum dots will become the industry standard for 4K and 8K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) Displays and that Quantum Materials will be a large part of that growth."
CEO Stephen Squires added: "Our multiple flow systems not only increase our production capacity to compete with the largest quantum dot manufacturers, but provide agility in producing a wide range of Group II-VI and Group III-V quantum dots, whether composed of high-performing-low-use cadmium sources or cadmium-free, temperature stable QDs, metal oxides and other nanoparticles."
DisplaySearch Market Research, now part of IHS, says Quantum Dot LCD TV shipments are forecast to grow from 1.3 million in 2015 to 18.7 million in 2018. Paul Gray, director of European research at DisplaySearch said: "Quantum dot is one of the weapons that the LCD industry is using to create ever more faithful images, which are very close to the full viewable range of the human eye."
