Yesterday, researchers from the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) provided exclusive quotes on the release of their study titled Full-color fiber light-emitting diodes based on perovskite quantum wires to TechXplore, where they insist that their "innovative approach (perovskite wiring) for fiber LEDs opens up new possibilities for fabricating unconventional 3D-structured lighting sources, paving the way for advanced wearable display technologies". This quote was provided by the HKUST Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering and Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Professor Fan Zhiyong, who also served as lead of the research team for the project's duration.
The project's primary purpose was to find a better way to make fiber wire LEDs, also called fi-LEDs. The issue with making these flexible LEDs has always been a matter of material, which often causes uneven or inefficient light emission. Using metal halite perovskites with a porous alumina membrane to create quantum wiring seems to be the correct way to mitigate these downsides, resulting in a series of full-color fi-LEDs. These fi-LEDs are already in such a condition that they should be suitable for textile lighting applications.
