The next-generation wearable near-eye displays inevitably require extremely high pixel density due to significant decrease in the viewing distance. For such denser and smaller pixel arrays, the emissive material must exhibit wider colour gamut so that each of the vast pixels maintains the colour accuracy. Electroluminescent quantum dot light-emitting diodes are promising candidates for such application owing to their highly saturated colour gamuts and other excellent optoelectronic properties. However, previously reported quantum dot patterning technologies have limitations in demonstrating full-colour pixel arrays with sub-micron feature size, high fidelity, and high post-patterning device performance. Here, we show thermodynamic-driven immersion transfer-printing, which enables patterning and printing of quantum dot arrays in omni-resolution scale; quantum dot arrays from single-particle resolution to the entire film can be fabricated on diverse surfaces. Red-green-blue quantum dot arrays with unprecedented resolutions up to 368 pixels per degree is demonstrated.
Currently, quantum dot light‐emitting diodes (QD‐LEDs) are receiving extensive attention. To maximize their luminous performance, the uniformity of the QD‐LEDs is crucial. Although the spontaneously self‐induced solutal Marangoni flow of an evaporating binary mixture droplet has been widely investigated and used to suppress coffee‐ring patterns in ink‐jet printing technology, unfortunately, ring shapes are still present at the edges, and the Marangoni flow generated by the selective evaporation of volatile liquid components cannot be controlled due to its nonlinear instabilities. In this work, polygonal coffee‐ring‐less QD microarrays are created using two spontaneous and sequential solutal Marangoni flows. During the initial evaporation, internal circulating flows are controlled by polygonal‐shaped droplets. After that, sequential interfacial flows are generated by the captured volatile vapors. A theoretical model and scaling analysis are provided to explain the working mechanisms. It is expected that the newly designed printing system can be applied to the mass production of QD‐LEDs.
Although the commercialization of electroluminescent quantum-dot (QD) displays essentially demands multicolor patterning of QDs with sufficient scalability and uniformity, the implementation of QD patterning in a light-emitting diode device is highly challenging, mainly due to the innate vulnerability of QDs and charge-transport layers. Here, we introduce a noninvasive surface-wetting approach for patterning full-color QD arrays on a photoprogrammed hole-transport layer (HTL). To achieve noninvasiveness of QD patterning, surface-specific modification of HTLs was performed without degrading their performance. Moreover, engineering the solvent evaporation kinetics allows area-selective wetting of QD patterns with a uniform thickness profile. Finally, multicolor QD patterning was enabled by preventing cross-contamination between different QD colloids via partial fluoro-encapsulation of earlier-patterned QDs. Throughout the overall QD patterning process, the optoelectronic properties of QDs and hole-transport layers are well preserved, and prototype electroluminescent quantum dot light-emitting diode arrays with high current efficiency and brightness were realized.
Rapid, accurate, and intuitive detection of unknown liquids is greatly important for various fields such as food and drink safety, management of chemical hazards, manufacturing process monitoring, and so on. Here, we demonstrate a highly responsive and selective transparency-switching medium for on-site, visual identification of various liquids. The light scattering-based sensing medium, which is designed to be composed of polymeric interphase voids and hollow nanoparticles, provides an extremely large transmittance window (>95%) with outstanding selectivity and versatility. This sensing medium features ternary transparency states (transparent, semitransparent, and opaque) when immersed in liquids depending on liquid-polymer interactions and diffusion kinetics. Several different types of these transparency-changing media can be configured into an arrayed platform to discriminate a wide variety of liquids and also quantify their mixing ratios. The outstanding versatility and user friendliness of the sensing platform allow the development of a practical tool for discrimination of diverse organic liquids.
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