Nanosys
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Nanosys is a nanotechnology
company located in Palo Alto, California
founded in 2001.
Nanosys, Inc (Palo Alto) designs products based on a technology platform that incorporates high performance inorganic nanostructures. Its technology, products, and processes are covered by over 750 patents and patent applications that address a wide range of industries including LED backlighting, LED general lighting, power (batteries and fuel cells), medical applications, next generation NAND Flash memories, Solar, Flat Panel Display driver transistors, and specialized nano-surface coatings (super-hydrophobic, super-adhesive, super-hydrophilic, super-hemostatic).
Currently, Nanosys is focused on commercializing its quantum dot and silicon composite anode materials for the LED LCD and lithium ion battery industries.
Nanosys was founded by Larry Bock and Drs. Charles Lieber and Paul Alivisatos. They were subsequently joined by Drs Steve Empedocles and Wally Parce and Mr. Calvin Chow.
Major funders of the company include Venrock Associates
, Samsung
, Arch Venture Partners, Intel, El Dorado Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners
, Prospect Ventures, Harris & Harris Group
, Lux Capital
, Kodak, and Wasatch Advisors.
Phosphors, QDEF enables a new level of LCD display performance by providing a high quality, tri-color white light from a standard blue LED
light source. Larger than a water molecule, but smaller than a virus, these tiny phosphors convert blue light
from a standard Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED into different wavelengths based upon their size. Larger dots emit longer wavelengths (red), while smaller dots emit shorter wavelengths (green). Blending together a mix of dot colors allows Nanosys to precisely engineer a new spectrum of light to customer specifications.
Designed to replace the functionality of a diffuser sheet while actively converting color, QDEF can be added to an LCD's film stack with little change in overall thickness or manufacturing process (see Fig 1 at right)
QDEF was announced on May 17, 2011 at the Society for Information Display
(SID) Display Week tradeshow.
subsidiary LG Innotek The quantum rail is a glass capillary optical component containing red and green quantum dots that is inserted between the LEDs and the lightguide panel (LGP) of an LED LCD display in manufacturing to improve color gamut.
Silicon Valley Business Journal Emerging Technology Awards: Winner, life sciences
Wall Street Journal 2010 Technology Innovation Awards: Runner up, semiconductors
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
company located in Palo Alto, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
founded in 2001.
Nanosys, Inc (Palo Alto) designs products based on a technology platform that incorporates high performance inorganic nanostructures. Its technology, products, and processes are covered by over 750 patents and patent applications that address a wide range of industries including LED backlighting, LED general lighting, power (batteries and fuel cells), medical applications, next generation NAND Flash memories, Solar, Flat Panel Display driver transistors, and specialized nano-surface coatings (super-hydrophobic, super-adhesive, super-hydrophilic, super-hemostatic).
Currently, Nanosys is focused on commercializing its quantum dot and silicon composite anode materials for the LED LCD and lithium ion battery industries.
Nanosys was founded by Larry Bock and Drs. Charles Lieber and Paul Alivisatos. They were subsequently joined by Drs Steve Empedocles and Wally Parce and Mr. Calvin Chow.
Major funders of the company include Venrock Associates
Venrock Associates
Venrock, a compound of "Venture" and "Rockefeller", is a pioneering venture capital firm formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller family that began in the late 1930s. It has offices in Palo Alto, California, New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and...
, Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
, Arch Venture Partners, Intel, El Dorado Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners
Polaris Venture Partners
Polaris Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments particularly in companies engaged in the information technology and life sciences sectors....
, Prospect Ventures, Harris & Harris Group
Harris & Harris Group
Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital firm exclusively focused on investing in companies enabled by nanotechnology and microsystems. It has a market cap of $165.5 million. With over 30 nanotechnology companies in their portfolio, Harris & Harris Group, Inc., is one of the most...
, Lux Capital
Lux Capital
Lux Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Peter Hébert, Robert Paull, and Josh Wolfe in 2000. The firm invests in emerging technologies in the physical and life sciences.The firm is based in New York, with partners also located in Boston and San Diego...
, Kodak, and Wasatch Advisors.
Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF)
Nanosys Quantum Dot Enhancement Film, or QDEF, is an optical film component for LED driven LCD displays. Based on Nanosys’ proprietary high efficiency Quantum DotQuantum dot
A quantum dot is a portion of matter whose excitons are confined in all three spatial dimensions. Consequently, such materials have electronic properties intermediate between those of bulk semiconductors and those of discrete molecules. They were discovered at the beginning of the 1980s by Alexei...
Phosphors, QDEF enables a new level of LCD display performance by providing a high quality, tri-color white light from a standard blue LED
LEd
LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....
light source. Larger than a water molecule, but smaller than a virus, these tiny phosphors convert blue light
from a standard Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED into different wavelengths based upon their size. Larger dots emit longer wavelengths (red), while smaller dots emit shorter wavelengths (green). Blending together a mix of dot colors allows Nanosys to precisely engineer a new spectrum of light to customer specifications.
Designed to replace the functionality of a diffuser sheet while actively converting color, QDEF can be added to an LCD's film stack with little change in overall thickness or manufacturing process (see Fig 1 at right)
QDEF was announced on May 17, 2011 at the Society for Information Display
Society for Information Display
The Society for Information Display is an industry organization for displays, generally electronic displays such as televisions and computer monitors. SID was founded in 1962. Its main activities are publishing technical journals and running Display Week, its main conference, held in May each year...
(SID) Display Week tradeshow.
QuantumRail
Announced just after CES in January 2010 as part of a commercial agreement with Korean consumer electronics manufacturer and LGLG
LG may refer to:*LG Corp., a South Korean electronics and petrochemicals conglomerate*LG Electronics, an affiliate of the South Korean LG Group which produces electronic products* Lawrence Graham, a London headquartered firm of business lawyers...
subsidiary LG Innotek The quantum rail is a glass capillary optical component containing red and green quantum dots that is inserted between the LEDs and the lightguide panel (LGP) of an LED LCD display in manufacturing to improve color gamut.
Awards
Society for Information Display Best in Show 2011: Small booth categorySilicon Valley Business Journal Emerging Technology Awards: Winner, life sciences
Wall Street Journal 2010 Technology Innovation Awards: Runner up, semiconductors