SBIR/STTR Research Award

Bioassembled QD LEDs

Award identifier 74f002aef65b1c163379289083105f2127fa0509fad87a0f7e092d8697c21685Awarding agency Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Award amount

$224,993

Program and phase

STTR · Phase I

Award year

2022

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Recipient company
LUNA LABS USA LLC
Proposal award date
2022-04-18
Contract end date
2023-06-14
UEI
M6JVSYRQRYM9
Solicitation number
22.D
Topic code
HR0011ST2022D-01

Research abstract

Quantum dots (QDs) are nanoparticles with unique properties that have the potential to be used in a many consumer-facing applications. QDs have bright narrow-band luminescence, and can produce more accurate color reproduction and brighter displays.  Further, QDs can be integrated into flexible or biocompatible displays which create opportunities for a future with many new paradigms of display technologies to improve information provided a warfighter, or for enhancements of people’s daily lives.  Current manufacturing processes of QD displays are limited in pixel resolutions they are able to produce.  Assembly processes using biological mechanisms can potentially be used to create micro-scale ordered QD pixel arrays for RGB display screens.  In response to this defined need for innovative manufacturing processes to improve QD LED screens, Luna Labs is proposing a unique bioassembly strategy to create ordered RGB pixel arrays for functional, flexible display screens.  This pixel generation strategy will rely on existing 3D printing technoilogies for producing flexible QD LED displays for a hybrid manufacturing system relying on two parallel assembly tracks.  Luna’s technology will be an inexpensive and scalable technology suited to development of advanced QD-LED displays.

Technology keywords

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Research funding history

116 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2015–2025). Reported award amounts total $67,780,099. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II

Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security

Agency intelligence

Department of Defense

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