$10M Venture Funding

QD Vision Inc. of Watertown, Mass., has received $10 million in venture funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners and the CIA’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel. The company will use the funds to bring its nanotechnology-based LED products to market as solid-state lighting and displays. QD Vision is the developer of the proprietary Quantum Light, which uses quantum dots to produce high-output LEDs.

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nano: An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
nanotechnology: The use of atoms, molecules and molecular-scale structures to enhance existing technology and develop new materials and devices. The goal of this technology is to manipulate atomic and molecular particles to create devices that are thousands of times smaller and faster than those of the current microtechnologies.
quantum dots: A quantum dot is a nanoscale semiconductor structure, typically composed of materials like cadmium selenide or indium arsenide, that exhibits unique quantum mechanical properties. These properties arise from the confinement of electrons within the dot, leading to discrete energy levels, or "quantization" of energy, similar to the behavior of individual atoms or molecules. Quantum dots have a size on the order of a few nanometers and can emit or absorb photons (light) with precise wavelengths,...

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