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Lasers control a mini-light show

Device achieves resolution thousands of times higher than current display screens.
Three organic light-emitting transistors displaying different patterns of green light

Devices that include light-emitting semiconductors display a variety of patterns when illuminated by a laser. Credit: L. Hou et al./Nature Nanotechnol.

Researchers have devised a method for creating low-cost, ultra-high-resolution ‘smart’ displays that can be remote-controlled by a laser.

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Nature 566, 428-429 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00624-w

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