{"id":39966,"date":"2014-11-30T20:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T20:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-3d-led-printer-makes-a-contact-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:22:53","slug":"emergentfutures-3d-led-printer-makes-a-contact-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-3d-led-printer-makes-a-contact-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39966 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-3d-led-printer-makes-a-contact-2\/attachment\/39968\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nfsr7lNPZ21qz5ttno1_640-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/emergentfutures.tumblr.com\/post\/104006074686\/3d-led-printer-makes-a-contact-lens-display\">emergentfutures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"nodivider\"><strong>3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>By breaking the concept of an LED down to its most basic form, the researchers saw that they needn\u2019t think of LEDs as little domed plastic lightbulbs, but simple stacks of interacting material. This printer can lay down an LED with a sandwich structure that\u2019s not unlike any single pixel in an OLED display \u2014 you\u2019ve got an emissive layer (in this case nanoparticles of cadmium selenide generally referred to as quantum dots) sandwiched between one\u00a0layer that can donate electrons and\u00a0one layer that can accept them. The whole thing can be fused to a surface thanks to the bottom adhesive layer, which is activated with UV light. Best of all, these printed LEDs are ultra-thin, flexible, and almost totally transparent!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Full Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/chips\/3d-led-printer-makes-a-contact-lens-display-possible-1610256\/\">Geek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>emergentfutures: 3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible By breaking the concept of an LED down to its most basic form, the researchers saw that they needn\u2019t think of LEDs as little domed plastic lightbulbs, but simple stacks of interacting material. This printer can lay down an LED with a sandwich structure that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aoC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39971,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39966\/revisions\/39971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}