Advanced Materials

IDTechEx met with Tanvas at their booth at the "Showstoppers" event which took place parallel to CES. We discussed the haptics technology ecosystem and their latest development.

Data centres are a large and growing consumer of electricity worldwide. In a typical datacentre, row upon row of electronics are placed in a small space. These server rooms often become very warm, requiring special heat management solutions, given all the many calculations that are performed on the incoming and outgoing data packs all year around.

IDTechEx caught up with Simon Chaput, President of Boréas Technologies at their booth on the Canadian pavilion at the LVCC South Hall at CES 2020.

IDTechEx spoke to Yukihiro Matsui at Taiyo Yuden's booth at CES 2020. Amongst the items they presented was a surface haptics system based on ultrasonic vibration.

Molex develops printed electronic solutions that solve complex technical and business challenges for the world's innovators by anticipating and delivering what our customers need most

Saphlux—in collaboration with Dr Jun Han from Yale University—is demonstrating a different approach towards adding QD color converters on LEDs.

SWIR Vision Systems is based in North Carolina and has come out of RTI International research group, which is a NC-based entity with around $1Bn of research funds.

IDTechEx met briefly with Cedrick Chappaz, CEO of hap2u at their booth at CES 2020's Unveiled exhibition. Having conducted an interview in mid-2019, this was an excellent opportunity to try the haptics demo that they were presenting.

Zhijing Nanotech (from Beijing University) has developed an interesting method to 'in-situ' grow perovskite QDs inside polymers.

TCL has been active in QDs since 2014.

Shoei Chemical are a Japanese firm ($ 350M income) and are a major player in producing Cu powder for the multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) business.

InGaN/GaN QDs were previously synthesised around 2010.

Zh-QTech is a Shenzhen-based Chinese firm providing QLMS: Quantum Dot Luminescent Micro-Spheres.

Sharp (at its Oxford laboratories) is working on QD-LED devices.

UbiQD is a 13-person company focused on CIS (CuInS2/ZnS) QDs.

Micro LED displays have many advantages but a key disadvantage is that they must be assembled LED by LED.

Electric vehicles by land, water and air are rapidly arriving and rapidly being misunderstood. Motors last forever? No. We now push motors so hard they wear out, increasing sales.

Quantum Solutions was spun out of the King Abdullah University (KAUST) in 2017 and started sales in 2018.

Pacific Light Technology (PLT) was established in 2011 in Oregon.

NexDot is a spin-out from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France.