Color purity and range have plateaued; new technology from Nanosys promises improvements. When LCD displays took over in the computer and TV industry they brought us thinness, less power consumption, and artificially lower prices, with restricted refresh rates, viewing angle, and color spectrum. Various companies like Dolby, HP, Portrait Displays,...
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IMS Research: Battery Innovations Might be the Cure for Electric Vehicle Market Malaise
Nanosys, is a Palo Alto based nanotechnology firm. It develops technology for LED backlighting and energy storage. The reason Nanosys piqued my interest is its new anode material that better manages volumetric expansion of the anode silicon – in short, improving the energy density of the battery. Nanosys has received...
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LA Times: Nanosys promises better color in TVs, digital devices
Televisions, computer monitors and smartphones display only a fraction of the colors the human eye can see. But thanks to a new technology developed by a Silicon Valley nanotechnology company, they may soon get a lot more colorful. Nanosys, which works with materials up to 100,000 times thinner than a...
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VentureBeat: Nanosys shows off richer colors for TVs, courtesy of nanotechnology
Nanosys, the nanotechnology materials company, has really come through with a technology that makes flat-panel displays much brighter and more colorful without increasing their cost, energy consumption or size. Yesterday, I got a good look at the “wide color gamut” displays that the company can enable with a plastic film...
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Nanosys Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor Peidong Yang Named Recipient of 2011 MRS Medal Award
The Materials Research Society (MRS) has selected Peidong Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to receive the 2011 MRS Medal. This prestigious honor recognizes a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement that is expected to have a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field. Yang was named MRS medalist for “outstanding contributions...
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