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TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: Electrically Pumped Nanocrystal Laser Diode
- Agency
- ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF / ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
- Location
- Los Alamos, NM
- Amount
- Amount not listed
- Posted
- Jul 22, 2026
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- NAICS code
- 334413 look up NAICS codes
- PSC code
- 5960
Timeline
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Posted
Jul 22, 2026
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Status
Open now
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What this contract is for
- Agency
- ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF / ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
- Location
- Los Alamos, NM
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- NAICS
- 334413
- Scope
- Federal
The Electrically Pumped Nanocrystal Laser Diode is a solution-processed laser technology developed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory that enables electrically driven laser emission using engineered colloidal nanocrystals, also known as colloidal quantum dots.
By overcoming long-standing challenges associated with nonradiative Auger recombination, heat build-up and optical losses in charge-transporting device layers, the technology achieves efficient room-temperature optical gain in a platform compatible with scalable, lower-cost manufacturing and on-chip integration.
This innovation opens a new pathway toward compact, high-performance optical amplifiers and laser sources for integrated photonics, optical communications, sensing and next-generation optoelectronic systems.
The Challenge: For years, researchers have sought to develop low-cost lasers that can be made from solution-based materials—essentially “printable” semiconductor inks—but electrically pumped operation has remained elusive.
The colloidal quantum dots used as the gain medium suffered from three fundamental limitations: rapid nonradiative energy loss through Auger recombination, excessive heat generation under the high current densities required for lasing, and strong optical losses in the charge-transporting layers of conventional LED device architectures.
Together, these challenges prevented the buildup of sufficient optical gain for laser operation.
As a result, electrically pumped nanocrystal lasers remained a long-sought but unrealized goal, limiting the ability to create scalable, lower-cost, chip-integrated laser sources.
The Electrically Pumped Nanocrystal Laser Diode overcomes these fundamental barriers and turns a long-standing scientific challenge into a commercially viable pathway.
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