SMRTR TechMar 13, 2025Interesting Engineering

Scientists create light-twisting semiconductors to revolutionize displays

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Scientists at Cambridge and Eindhoven universities engineered a new organic semiconductor, triazatruxene (TAT), that forces electrons to move in spirals, producing twisted light. This chiral material creates circularly polarized light efficiently, with potential applications in energy-efficient displays, quantum computing, and spintronics. OLED devices made with TAT demonstrated 16% energy conversion efficiency, 200 times the brightness of typical LCD screens, and maintained stability over 100 hours of operation.

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