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Last updated: July 16th, 2020 at 16:50 UTC+02:00
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Samsung's QNED technology is not entirely new but it's slowly becoming a hot topic in the display industry. QNED stands for Quantum dot Nanorod LED, and as detailed by OLEDNet a couple of months back, it uses oxide TFT and quantum dot color filter technologies similar to QD-OLED. The main difference between QD-OLED and QNED lies in the pixel material and the pixel manufacturing technology itself. Samsung creates QNED pixels by using an ink jet method to spray nanorod LEDs dispersed in a solution into a pixel area. The pixels are then self-aligned with the help of an electric signal.
For future customers, QNED technology promises to deliver superior contrast ratios, higher brightness levels, and faster response times compared to existing display solutions.
According to UBI Research, Samsung Display is likely to start manufacturing 30,000 QNED panels per month in Q2 2021. The source also claims that once Samsung's QNED-based TVs will be commercialized, they will pose a major threat to LG's WOLED solution.
Realistically speaking, QNED TVs are unlikely to hit the market next year because Samsung Display still needs to address some issues. Although production costs are said to be lower compared to OLED, micro-LED, and QD-LED, the aforementioned ink jet manufacturing method is time consuming and the company is now working on making it viable for mass production. As an emerging technology likely to succeed QD-OLED, it may take a few more years before QNED becomes mainstream.
Mihai is a blogger and column writer at SamMobile. His first Samsung phone was an A800 which took a lot of beating, and a part of him still misses the novelty of the clamshell design. In his free time, he enjoys watching shows, documentaries, and stand-up comedy; listening to music, taking walks, and occasionally playing old(er) video games.
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