Pony Express, as Moderator, I try to be moderate which sometimes comes across as less than enthusiastic, but if I were not Moderator, I would be just like you, I'm sure. So I am going to step outside the role I play, and beg everyones indulgence to have a little fun for a change with a little more humor in my explanation.
The thing that everyone who is not on this board does not know, is that the Tetrapod Quantum Dot is a Super Dot! I would rate it a 20 on a scale of 1 to 10. I try to be conservative in my numbers, you know.
It's better so many ways- and I have to apologize to everyone for my really, "dry" translation of the Feb 4 Patent posted in this sticky post: investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=48564068 High Points of the Feb 4, 2010 Patent Synthesis of Uniform Nanoparticle Shapes with High Selectivity I must have been stone sober! So I am going to try again, and translate my translation of the patent, into better English. Wait, gotta finish this beer. Ok, I'm ready. No, let me get 'nother one, jusa minute. Ok. Ok.
Well, let's see here, what do I have to explain, the title says it all,
Synthesis of Uniform Nanoparticle Shapes with High Selectivity
What's there not to understand? I mean really.
OK, here goes, QMC can make Tetrapod Quantum Dots all the same size, length, width with up to 95% conversion. Conversion means that they all come out right with the right number of arms and legs, and not irregular. That's important, because the way everyone else is doing it, those other QD come out every which way, with maybe a 50% conversion, and they can't control the shapes to a high degree. So that's pretty darn revolutionary.
And because they can control all that, they can make TQD to an exacter frequency than others with less variation (think bell curve) than others, so the client, can make a more exact whatever than before. Clients should love that. All their equipment is precise, and now their TQD in their machines will be precise!
Maybe the most amazing thing is that the QMC TQD is a Tetrapod and not any other shape. They have three legs like a tripod and one arm reaching up to the sun, just like any Celt, Scottish, Roman or Greek (Sparta only) Leader would hold up his sword to the sky, when charging into battle. And then the whole army, which covers the entire battlefield does the same thing, hold their sword up to catch the glint of the sun's rays and convert it into fighting energy which courses through their warrior bodies and energizes each of them, more and more all the way to the ground. Well that's either a metaphor or an analogy (same thing, really, I think, but I always get them confused, so I leave it up to you) for what the Tetrapod QD are doing. They catch the sun and the photons become electrons, I don't know how, and then through MEG - Multiple Exciton Generation, they increase from one electron to as many as three or seven, I don't know how, and I don't care, either. But luckily, they do, and the shape of the Tetrapod is just damn perfect for that because there are three legs, and no waiting. Zip! The photon goes in and seven electrons come out. This means that of the type of Quantum Dot they are, they are potentially more efficient than other QD.As Big Daddy said in the movieBrother, Where Art Thou?, "Now We're Mass Communicatin'!"
These guys are also small, well, you know anything that is measured in nanometers is small, and everywhere you look, someone has a crossectioned picture of a single hair and is saying "our nanoparticle is one/something of a human hair, that's how small our nanosomething is!" Well, as John Wayne would say,"Well, Pardner (he always said Pardner) Our Tetrapod is smaller than your nanoparticle and can beat it up, too!" Our tetrapods are smaller than most tetrapods because QMC can control the cooking of the tetrapods better and control the length and width of the arms. So, that means we can fit more on a solar panel, and more QD mean more electricity produced. Those radio commercials are right, "Gentlemen, size does matter",Smaller Size is better. And they all stand straight up and don't need no little blue pill, either. Let's see your nanoparticle do that!
Another effect is because of the efficiency, less TQD might be needed in a finished product, saving the manufacturer even more money! What, you say, that means less money for QMC, when they use less TQD to make their product. But, I say, it means less expensive product for the consumer, ultimately, and the use of the TQD as the preferred QD in everything, and ultimately, revolutionizing the world as expensive things become inexpensive for everyone. In the solar field, what if there was a solar panel or two given to farmers in Africa to generate their own electricity and pump water up a well, hook a computer up to the internet, heat water, recharge an electric car or plower, doing work in a sustainable way, so that the farmer could get out of hunger and poverty?
These are CdSe Quantum Dots, of a high order. These TQD are royalty. NREL says they have potentially the highest efficiency (electrical output)theoretically than other types of QD, in the 60s percent, compared to in the 40s percent area for others. QMC's goal is to keep increasing the efficiency of the product. You may have heard some other companies use "multi-junction" solar cells, that layer one chemical on another to increase efficiency. Well, I just read a scientific paper that speculated on layering a second layer of Tetrapod QD on a base layer of Tetrapod Qd. Imagine if one electron is turned into seven by the top layer, could the bottom layer turn that into forty nine electrons? If that could happen, that would blow the doors off Fort Knox for QMC. (Note- this is pure supposition on my part - it could happen, but it is a big if and who knows when far in the future, if ever)
CdSe is Cadmium Selenide and the amazing thing about that is that they are two common chemicals. Everyone else is using some REE minerals, which have the unpopular characteristics of being both expensive and rare. REE minerals are only going to get more rare and more expensive. So as these other companies build their expensive factories, they will find out in a few years that they don't have the stuff to make the panels with anymore, or that the costs will outrun what they can get for the finished product. Not a problem now.
First Solar uses CdTe successfully. Here is what Wikipedia says about the Tellurium (Te):At the present time, the price of the raw materials cadmium and tellurium are a negligible proportion of the cost of CdTe solar cells and other CdTe devices. However, tellurium is an extremely rare element (1-5 parts per billion in the Earth's crust; see Abundances of the elements (data page)), and if CdTe were to be used in sufficiently large quantities (for example, to make enough solar cells to provide a significant proportion of worldwide energy consumption), tellurium availability could be a serious problem.
Well, Puravida19, you say, maybe someday they will switch to CdSe Quantum Dots like QMC makes, why not, it's a free country, right? Yes, of course they can, but they cannot make them the way we make them. Why not, you say, everyone makes Tetrapod Quantum Dots, just read the literature. Yes, I say, but none is making theirs with our patent pending Quaternary ammonium compounds process and therefore, they will be making them at a cost over 200 times more expensive. Additionally, I say, none of them have the additional, second process for mass production of Tetrapod Quantum Dots that we have. That, my friends, is what you call the Double Whammy. You can look it up.
Additionally, the patent says we can make other compounds into Quantum Dots using this same process of chemical and mass production. I'm sure we have been experimenting with other chemicals in Prof. Wong's lab and will be excited to see what they come up with because different chemicals may be better suited for other uses, such as luminescence or fluorescence, to use in displays. They could find other compounds could be better suited for capturing the ultraviolet or infrared frequencies. We have patent application in for the chemical process and have contracted the mass production process and have the rights to any improvements in the process we have made. If First Solar wants to use our TQD, or make TQD our way, they would have to pay us if we let them. (Pure supposition, ROLF just thinking about it).
Finally, the last claim is that the CdSe compounds are biodegradable and safe, and so are green and environmentally friendly. And who doesn't like that!
That, in a humongous nutshell is the patent, and that's all folks!
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