New display technology combines record brightness with pixels that stretch like rubber

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• A research team led by Professor Jiwoong Yang of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed the world's first foundational technology for an ultrahigh-resolution stretchable quantum dot display (QLED) that can stretch fre…
• Reported by Phys.org and published Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:30:02 UTC.

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