This book reviews the application of semiconductor nanocrystals also known as colloidal quantum
dots (QDs) to LED lighting for indoors and outdoors as well as LED backlighting in displays
summarizing the color science of QDs for lighting and displays and presenting recent
developments in QD-integrated LEDs and display research. By employing QDs in color-conversion
LEDs it is possible to simultaneously accomplish successful color rendition of the illuminated
objects and a good spectral overlap between the emission spectrum of the light source and the
sensitivity of the human eye at a warm white color temperature - something that is
fundamentally challenging to achieve with conventional sources such as incandescent and
fluorescent lamps and phosphor-based LEDs.
