Jason Hartlove has a name and a rakish mug worthy of a soap-opera star, a resume that any Silicon Valley engineer would envy, and a bit of swagger as a turnaround CEO. He co-invented the optical mouse at Hewlett-Packard, ran a 3,000-employee manufacturing operation for HP spinoff Agilent in Malaysia, and set South Korea’s struggling MagnaChip Semiconductor on its...
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2010
Medtronic’s Stephen Oesterle talks about Nanosys’ battery technology
An example is a little company in Palo Alto called Nanosys, they have captured a lot of IP in the area of nanotechnology for display, flash memory, coatings, etc. I sit on that board and try to help see how those technologies are relevant to our business. One example there...
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MIT Technology Review: Colorful Quantum-Dot Displays Coming to Market
Liquid-crystal displays, or LCDs, found in televisions, computers, and cell phones, are very inefficient: their complex optical layers discard over 90 percent of the light they produce internally, some of it because it’s not quite the right color. Displays that will be in products made by Korean electronics company LG...
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DisplayDaily: Quantum Dots Get Real
After dozens of press releases, emails and calls from industry contacts and PR people, it’s easy for an analyst to think he knows in advance what’s going to happen at SID Display Week. Then, there are the surprises. One of those surprises was encountered in the LG Display booth on...
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The Economist- Quantum dots A quantum leap for lighting
HOW many inventions does it take to change a light bulb? More than you might think. Around the world, many people are switching from traditional incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs, which require less energy to produce a given amount of light, and therefore save money and reduce carbon...
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