{"id":330255,"date":"2019-11-28T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=330255"},"modified":"2019-11-28T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:58:37","slug":"samsung-makes-massive-qled-tv-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/330255-samsung-makes-massive-qled-tv-breakthrough.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung makes massive QLED TV breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1771-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>developed<\/strong><\/a> new technology that extends the lifetime and efficiency of QLED panels.<\/p>\n<p>The technology was developed by a team led by Samsung fellow Dr Eunjoo Jang and principal researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology Dr Yu-Ho Won.<\/p>\n<p>The team discovered that by utilising a specific structure, oxidation of the core can be prevented, and energy leaks can be reduced significantly.<\/p>\n<p>This improves the quantum efficiency of devices which use this technology by 21.4%, improving the lifetime of QLED panels to 1 million hours at 100 candelas per square metre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[This represents] a performance comparable to that of state-of-the-art Cd-containing QD-LEDs. These as-prepared InP-based QD-LEDs could soon be usable in commercial displays,&#8221; said Samsung.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Investment into Quantum Dot technology<\/h3>\n<p>Despite this advancement, true quantum dot displays for commercial TVs are believed to be several years away.<\/p>\n<p>Current TVs from Samsung that use QLED technology do not use a true quantum dot system; instead, these systems are used alongside LCD technology.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/samsung-to-invest-11-biilion-into-qd-displays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>committed<\/strong><\/a> to investing $11 billion over the period ending 2025 into producing true quantum dot displays.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/328625-huawei-p30-vs-galaxy-s10e-best-value-flagship-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huawei P30 vs Galaxy S10e \u2013 Best value flagship in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has developed new technology that extends the lifetime and efficiency of QLEDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":303562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[43196,50917,2306],"class_list":["post-330255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-qled","tag-qled-tvs","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330275,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330255\/revisions\/330275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}