5 Reasons QD-OLED TV Tech Is Worth Paying Attention To (And 5 Reasons It May Just Be A Fad) – SlashGear

Quantum dot film improves almost every aspect of OLED technology, making it brighter, more colorful, and wider color gamut. It’s the best of the currently-available self-emissive screen technologies in consumer products, but a new panel type is waiting to take over. That upcoming technology is MicroLED, another screen type that uses individual LEDs for the pixels, just like OLED. Still, with no pesky organic material to break down, it can be brighter, last longer, and has no chance of burn-in.

It’s not a new technology, with manufacturers like Sony, Samsung, and Apple working on their version of MicroLED for years. The difficulty is in the production, which is expensive, hard to scale to consumer product levels, and without consensus on the best way forward. One production method uses robots to place individual LEDs onto the panel, like a Lite-Brite. Another creates the LED pixel array and then transfers it onto an IC substrate for power and control. Both are expensive. Samsung’s 110″ MicroLED TV costs an eye-watering $149,997.99 to purchase. A new way promoted by Nanosys is to use blue LEDs with quantum dots printed on them in the same way that QD-OLED is produced. This would be cheaper to produce and still bring all of the benefits of MicroLED.