QustomDot develops colorful nanomaterials for your future display!

QustomDot, an advanced materials spin-off of Ghent University, develops colorful nanomaterials to be used in next generation display technologies. Even tough quantum dots (QDs) are so tiny, they can have a great impact on how your future display can look like. QDs can be a key enabling technology to bring microLED displays to market.

I bet you still remember the CRT television every household had in the nineties. In a blink of an eye these bulky televisions were replaced by flat screen displays. Since then, displays have started to play a very prominent role in our lives. And even today, new display technologies are emerging, ready to change the world as we see it. One of these display technologies is the microLED display technology. Due to their very small size, microLEDs offer extra benefits to displays and lighting. The technology can be used in a variety of applications, such as smart watches or augmented reality. However, many technological challenges in the production process remain to be solved before microLEDs can reach the market. QustomDot is developing nanomaterials that can solve the production issues microLEDs are facing. These nanomaterials, called quantum dots (QDs), can convert all blue light of a microLED chip into red or green and thus make a full-color display using only blue microLED chips.

A new revolutionary QD synthesis was invented at the Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN, Ghent University) of prof. Zeger Hens in 2014. It uses safer chemicals than traditional procedures and has a high production yield. During that time, the first commercial product containing QDs was being launched, the QD-LCD TV. It gave a first peak into the huge potential QDs have in display and lighting technologies. However, it also showed the Achilles heel of this technology, being stability under high light flux and high temperatures. With the invention of UGhent’s new synthesis method, the technology was further developed, leading to a number of patents and the need to spin out of academia. After growing a business plan and securing a venture capital seed round, QustomDot was successfully launched in January 2020.

Today, on-chip grade QDs are at the frontline of disrupting the display market because they hold promise for a cost-effective production process for microLED displays. Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether stability issues can be overcome so that QDs can deliver on their immense potential. We at QustomDot develop on-chip grade, RoHS compliant QD technology specifically tailored towards this goal. The future? Colorful, functional and efficient displays, and we invite you to discover the possibilities of quantum dots (QD) together with QustomDot.

QustomDot is a spin-off of the Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures Research Group (PCN) of prof. Zeger Hens at Ghent University. The company was founded in January 2020 by Igor Nakonechnyi (CPO), Bruno Janssens (Business developer), Willem Walravens (CTO) and Kim De Nolf (CEO).

For more information, please check https://www.QustomDot.com.