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This resource contains historical news stories from the early start-up phase of Nanosys, Inc., prior to the acquisition of its assets by Shoei Chemical Inc. These posts reflect the independent activities, announcements, and partnerships of Nanosys before joining the Shoei family. We’ve preserved them here as part of our history and to provide context for the evolution of our technology and business.
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It’s exciting to see the first 500 Hz QD-OLED monitors hit the market—and a great reminder that quantum dots (QDs) are a big part of the super-speed story.
Dive into our interactive RTINGS 2.0 tech showdown—see QD‑OLED and QD‑LCD stack up against WOLED and LCDs on color, brightness, and response time, with live charts.
Sony and Samsung drove QD-OLED to a dominant one-two win at the 2025 Value Electronics TV Shootout in New York.
We’re excited to share the launch of our completely redesigned website!
New video: Home Theater Geeks explores Gamut Rings—an intuitive, volumetric approach to measuring real display color.
There is just one week left until Display Week 2025 kicks off here in Silicon Valley. This is our guide to all the best Quantum Dot programming at this year’s event!
There is just one week left until Display Week 2025 kicks off here in Silicon Valley. This is our guide to all the best Quantum Dot programming at this year’s event!
The flagship X11G is capable of 5000 nits peak brightness and features 5184 zones.
Display Week 2024 was an amazing week for Quantum Dots, and the SID graciously shared each of the QD-related keynote talks on its YouTube channel. We present them here in order of appearance.
Leading the charge in moving away from cadmium, Nanosys has been instrumental in advancing cadmium-free QD technology.
Discover how a new approach using UV microLEDs and cadmium- and lead-free quantum dots could revolutionize display technology, offering brighter, more efficient, and eco-friendly full-color screens.
The Tech n Biz team visited Nanosys’ booth at the recent SID Display Week event in San Jose, CA. This is their write-up, with photos!
Quantum Dot (QD) MiniLEDs are revolutionizing TV technology, set to surpass OLED TVs by 2025 with superior dimming, HDR, and color performance, driven by industry giants and market growth.
In the latest episode of the Home Theater Geeks podcast, Scott Wilkinson takes listeners on a virtual tour of Display Week 2024, including the amazing electroluminescent Quantum Dot (QDEL) demos shown by Sharp, Samsung, and TCL.
There is just one week left until Display Week 2024 kicks off here in Silicon Valley. This is our guide to all the best Quantum Dot programming at this year’s event!
Caleb Dennison of Digital Trends got to go eyes-on with QDEL technology at CES and Sharp even let him bring his camera crew. Great first look at a future display technology that is making rapid progress towards commercialization:
This year’s NanoLED demonstration by Sharp, in a private room at CES 2024, represented a huge leap forward for emissive quantum dot technology over the previous year. We look forward to sharing more news on the technology at SID Display Week in May.
Shoei Chemical of Japan has acquired Nanosys, the US-based supplier of quantum dots for LCD and OLED displays, and plans to accelerate development of EL-QD displays.
It’s been a big week for Quantum Dot technology! On Monday a quantum dot TV was crowned “King of TV” and, on Wednesday morning, we learned that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three early Quantum Dot pioneers.
Shoei Chemical celebrates the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Quantum Dots by sponsoring a free collection of featured content, articles from the winners, related research papers, and reviews, news and opinion pieces that highlight the development of quantum dots over the past three decades.
Chris Boylan for Big Picture Big Sound: “The winner in all three categories: SDR, HDR and bright room/out-of-the-box settings was the Sony A95L QD-OLED. This means the new "King of 4K TV" is the Sony A95L QD-OLED TV.”
RTINGS just published their list of the 7 Best TVs on the market. We were excited to see that sets based on quantum dot technology won five of the seven categories!
Nanosys will give a featured presentation at this October's OLEDs World Summit in Seoul. the show’s organizers spoke with Dr. ZhongSheng Luo, Vice President of Sales and general Manager of Product Development at Nanosys, to get a sneak peek of what we can expect from his presentation.
Nanosys has been acquired by Shoei Chemical of Japan, and it has ambitious plans for the next big thing in TV screen technology.
Thursday Night Football is back and Amazon Prime is upgrading the experience for fans this year by broadcasting all games HDR. We measured the colors of the jerseys in the week 3 matchup to see if they will be presented more accurately in HDR with its expanded color palette.
In Samsung’s IFA 2023 innovation room, a modified QD-OLED TV was used to illustrate how it can display content outside of DCI-P3 - and its gamut even exceeds the reference monitor, the Sony X-310.
Quantum dots (QD) are a key enabling technology for next-generation displays, including MiniLEDs, QD-OLEDs and electroluminescent NanoLEDs, providing a growth opportunity for Shoei Chemical.
Nanosys Senior Staff Scientist, Dr. Ilan Jen-La Plante, will present a talk on “Developing Next-Generation Quantum Dots for Next-Generation Displays” at the DSCC AR/VR Display Forum on September 12, 2023.
CNET recently named TCL’s Quantum Dot enhanced 6-Series TV lineup their “Best TV of 2023”. The win marks the brand, and quantum dot technology’s, 5th straight award for Best TV. The combination of Quantum Dot color, miniLED contrast and a great operating system are pretty hard to beat!
Information Display's team of reporters covered many noteworthy events and exhibitions at the action-packed Display Week. This compilation of highlights features sessions and developments each has found significant based on their areas of expertise.
Press Releases
Shoei Chemical, Inc., a leading advanced materials manufacturer, announced today that it, together with its North American subsidiary, Shoei Electronic Materials, Inc. (Shoei), has completed a definitive asset purchase agreement with Nanosys, Inc. (Nanosys) to acquire substantially all the assets associated with the Nanosys quantum dot business.
Shoei Chemical, Inc., a leading advanced materials manufacturer, announced today that it, together with its North American subsidiary, Shoei Electronic Materials, Inc. (Shoei), has completed a definitive asset purchase agreement with Nanosys, Inc. (Nanosys) to acquire substantially all the assets associated with the Nanosys quantum dot business.
Nanosys, the world’s largest independent Quantum Dot company, today announced a milestone in Quantum Dot technology commercialization with the launch of the 1,000th unique quantum dot display product since 2013.
Nanosys is pleased to announce that President and CEO, Jason Hartlove, will deliver the keynote address at the combined OLEDs World Summit and Phosphors & Quantum Dots Industry Forum events on October 26th.
Avicena enhances its leadership position in microLED-based multi-Tbps chip-to-chip interconnects through the acquisition of a microLED fab facility and engineering team from Nanosys.
Growth investment, led by Fortress, Centerbridge and Kilonova, supports the expansion of quantum dots for LCDs and accelerates the commercialization of microLED and nanoLED display technologies
Nanosys, the industry innovator and leading supplier of quantum dot and microLED technologies for advanced displays, today received the 2022 Display Industry Awards Display Component of the Year award for its xQDEFTM Diffuser Plate quantum dot technology from the Society for Information Display (SID).
xQDEF™ Laminate delivers no-compromise quantum dot color and brightness for displays in a new, lower-cost package, expanding the market for quantum dot displays.
Companies join forces to bring low-cost manufacturing of flexible microLED and nanoLED displays to market.
CYD and Nanosys Collaborate on New Generation of Barrier-Free Extruded Quantum Dot Components, Enabling Quantum Dot Adoption in Sub-$500 TVs, Accelerating the Proliferation of Quantum Dots in Mainstream Displays.
Nanosys and Shoei Chemical today announced that the companies have entered into a Quantum Dot materials supply and service agreement. Under the agreement, Shoei Chemical will manufacture Nanosys’ proprietary Quantum Dot materials exclusively for Nanosys.
The abstract short film “Quantum Flows,” debuts today at the 8K Display Summit 2019 in New York City. Shot entirely in stunning Rec.2020 8K HDR by Director Phil Holland, the film explores the vividly colorful world of Nanosys’ Quantum Dot nanocrystals few consumers have seen.
Nanosys today announced that it has expanded into a new, high-capacity production facility in Milpitas, California.
Announces the Release of First of Its Kind QDEF™ High Color Gamut Optical Film for LCDs, Ushers in New Era in Content Creation and Experience
Nanosys, Inc. today announced it has agreed to settlement terms of a patent infringement lawsuit against Nanoco Technologies Ltd.
Nanosys, Inc. has filed a patent infringement suit against Nanoco Technologies Ltd. claiming that the United Kingdom firm’s quantum dot technology infringes five patents held by Nanosys.