Patents by Inventor Soo-Kyung Kwon

Soo-Kyung Kwon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11905447
    Abstract: A cadmium free quantum dot including a core that includes a first semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc, tellurium, and selenium, and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell that is disposed on the core and includes a zinc chalcogenide, wherein the quantum dot further includes magnesium and the mole ratio of Te:Se is greater than or equal to about 0.1:1 in the quantum dot; a production method thereof; and an electronic device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungwoo Hwang, Yong Wook Kim, Soo Kyung Kwon, Seon-Yeong Kim, Ji-Yeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20240036393
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a light conversion sheet between the display panel and the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a substrate and light-emitting sections arranged on the substrate, one or more light sources are disposed in each of the light-emitting sections, the light conversion sheet includes first partition walls and light conversion sections arranged to correspond to the light-emitting sections, a first partition wall of the first partition walls is disposed between adjacent light conversion sections of the light conversion sections. Each of the light conversion sections includes first quantum dots emitting a first light and second quantum dots emitting a second light having a color different from a color of the first light, and the at least one light source provides light of a predetermined wavelength to the light conversion sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Yong Wook KIM, Soo Kyung KWON, Jaeyong LEE
  • Patent number: 11845888
    Abstract: A cadmium free quantum dot not including cadmium and including: a semiconductor nanocrystal core comprising indium and phosphorous, a first semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the semiconductor nanocrystal core and comprising zinc and selenium, and a second semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the first semiconductor nanocrystal shell and comprising zinc and sulfur, a composition and composite including the same, and an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuho Won, Nayoun Won, Sungwoo Hwang, Eun Joo Jang, Soo Kyung Kwon, Yong Wook Kim, Jihyun Min, Garam Park, Shang Hyeun Park, Hyo Sook Jang, Shin Ae Jun, Yong Seok Han
  • Patent number: 11809040
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a light conversion sheet between the display panel and the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a substrate and light-emitting sections arranged on the substrate, one or more light sources are disposed in each of the light-emitting sections, the light conversion sheet includes first partition walls and light conversion sections arranged to correspond to the light-emitting sections, a first partition wall of the first partition walls is disposed between adjacent light conversion sections of the light conversion sections. Each of the light conversion sections includes first quantum dots emitting a first light and second quantum dots emitting a second light having a color different from a color of the first light, and the at least one light source provides light of a predetermined wavelength to the light conversion sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Wook Kim, Soo Kyung Kwon, Jaeyong Lee
  • Publication number: 20230323204
    Abstract: A cadmium free quantum dot or a population thereof or a device including the same, wherein the cadmium free quantum dot includes a core (or a semiconductor nanocrystal particle) including a first semiconductor including a Group IIB-VI compound and a shell (or a coating) disposed on the core (or the semiconductor nanocrystal particle) including a Group IIB-V compound and exhibits a quantum efficiency of about 60% or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Seon-Yeong KIM, Yong Wook KIM, Soo Kyung KWON, Ji-Yeong KIM, Sungwoo HWANG
  • Publication number: 20230313031
    Abstract: A quantum dot including a core including a quaternary alloy semiconductor nanocrystal and not including cadmium, a composition and a quantum dot polymer composite including the same, and an electronic device including the same. The quaternary alloy semiconductor nanocrystal comprises indium (In), phosphorous (P), zinc (Zn), and selenium (Se), and in the core, a ratio of the zinc with respect to the indium is less than or equal to about 0.5:1 and in the core, a ratio of selenium with respect to zinc is less than or equal to about 0.6:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Soo Kyung KWON, Yong Wook KIM, Jihyun MIN, Eun Joo JANG
  • Publication number: 20230303924
    Abstract: A quantum dot including a core and a shell disposed on an outer surface of the core. The core includes a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a Group II-VI compound. The shell includes a second semiconductor nanocrystal. An effective mass of the second semiconductor nanocrystal is about 0.5 times to about 2.0 times an effective mass of the first semiconductor nanocrystal and the quantum dot does not include cadmium, lead, mercury, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jihyun MIN, Soo Kyung KWON, Seon-Yeong KIM, Yong Wook KIM, Ji-Yeong KIM, Eun Joo JANG, Sungwoo HWANG
  • Publication number: 20230287269
    Abstract: A core-shell quantum dot including a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal, the first semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc, tellurium, and selenium and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core, the semiconductor nanocrystal shell including zinc and selenium, sulfur, or a combination thereof and a production thereof are disclosed, wherein the core-shell quantum dot does not include cadmium, lead, mercury, or a combination thereof, wherein the core-shell quantum dot(s) includes chlorine, wherein in the core-shell quantum dot, a mole ratio of chlorine with respect to tellurium is greater than or equal to about 0.01:1 and wherein a quantum efficiency of the core-shell quantum dot is greater than or equal to about 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Seon-Yeong KIM, Soo Kyung KWON, Yong Wook KIM, Ji-Yeong KIM, Jihyun MIN, Sungwoo HWANG, Eun Joo JANG
  • Patent number: 11742443
    Abstract: A nanocrystal including a core including a Group III element and a Group V element, and a monolayer shell on the surface of the core, the shell including a compound of the formula ZnSexS(1-x), wherein 0?x?1, and wherein an average mole ratio of Se:S in the monolayer shell ranges from about 2:1 to about 20:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Ae Jun, Eun Joo Jang, Soo Kyung Kwon, Taek Hoon Kim, Won Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 11739263
    Abstract: A cadmium free quantum dot includes zinc, tellurium, and selenium, and lithium. A full width at half maximum of a maximum luminescent peak of the cadmium free quantum dot is less than or equal to about 50 nanometers and the cadmium free quantum dot has a quantum efficiency of greater than 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Wook Kim, Eun Joo Jang, Hyo Sook Jang, Soo Kyung Kwon, Seon-Yeong Kim, Ji-Yeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20230250333
    Abstract: A quantum dot including a semiconductor nanocrystal core and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core and does not include cadmium, wherein the core includes a Group III-V compound, the quantum dot has a maximum photoluminescence peak in a green light wavelength region, a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the maximum photoluminescence peak is less than about 50 nanometers (nm), and a difference between a wavelength of the maximum photoluminescence peak and a first absorption peak wavelength of the quantum dot is less than or equal to about 25 nanometers, and a production method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Jihyun MIN, Seon-Yeong KIM, Eun Joo JANG, Hyo Sook JANG, Soo Kyung KWON, Yong Wook KIM
  • Publication number: 20230250336
    Abstract: A cadmium free quantum dot includes zinc, tellurium, and selenium, and lithium. A full width at half maximum of a maximum luminescent peak of the cadmium free quantum dot is less than or equal to about 50 nanometers and the cadmium free quantum dot has a quantum efficiency of greater than 1%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Yong Wook KIM, Eun Joo JANG, Hyo Sook JANG, Soo Kyung KWON, Seon-Yeong KIM, Ji-Yeong KIM
  • Patent number: 11718789
    Abstract: A cadmium free quantum dot or a population thereof or a device including the same, wherein the cadmium free quantum dot includes a core (or a semiconductor nanocrystal particle) including a first semiconductor including a Group IIB-VI compound and a shell (or a coating) disposed on the core (or the semiconductor nanocrystal particle) including a Group IIB-V compound and exhibits a quantum efficiency of about 60% or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon-Yeong Kim, Yong Wook Kim, Soo Kyung Kwon, Ji-Yeong Kim, Sungwoo Hwang
  • Patent number: 11702593
    Abstract: A quantum dot including a core and a shell disposed on an outer surface of the core. The core includes a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a Group II-VI compound. The shell includes a second semiconductor nanocrystal. An effective mass of the second semiconductor nanocrystal is about 0.5 times to about 2.0 times an effective mass of the first semiconductor nanocrystal and the quantum dot does not include cadmium, lead, mercury, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihyun Min, Soo Kyung Kwon, Seon-Yeong Kim, Yong Wook Kim, Ji-Yeong Kim, Eun Joo Jang, Sungwoo Hwang
  • Publication number: 20230220279
    Abstract: A core shell quantum dot including a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal and including zinc, tellurium, and selenium and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core and including a zinc chalcogenide, a method of manufacture thereof, and a device including the same are disclosed, wherein the core shell quantum dot does not include cadmium, lead, mercury, or a combination thereof, wherein in an X-ray photoelectron spectrum of the quantum dot, a peak area for Te oxide to a peak area for Te3d5/2 as an area percentage is less than or equal to about 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Jihyun MIN, Sungwoo HWANG, Yong Wook Kim, Ji-Yeong Kim, Soo Kyung KWON, Seon-Yeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20230217775
    Abstract: A display panel includes a light emitting panel and a color conversion panel. The color conversion layer emits a predetermined light. A color of the predetermined light comprises a first region of Cx of about 0.26 to about 0.35 and Cy of about 0.27 to about 0.35 in CIE 1931 color coordinates, and in an emission spectrum of the predetermined light having a color in the first region, a first area percentage is less than or equal to about 65%, where the first area percentage is defined by the following formula: [A/B]×100%, in which A denotes an area of a region having a wavelength of less than or equal to about 470 nm in the emission spectrum, and B denotes an area of a region having a wavelength of less than or equal to about 480 nm in the emission spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yongwook KIM, Ji-Yeong KIM, Soo Kyung KWON, Eun Joo JANG, Sungwoo HWANG
  • Patent number: 11692136
    Abstract: A core-shell quantum dot including a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal, the first semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc, tellurium, and selenium and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core, the semiconductor nanocrystal shell including zinc and selenium, sulfur, or a combination thereof and a production thereof are disclosed, wherein the core-shell quantum dot does not include cadmium, lead, mercury, or a combination thereof, wherein the core-shell quantum dot(s) includes chlorine, wherein in the core-shell quantum dot, a mole ratio of chlorine with respect to tellurium is greater than or equal to about 0.01:1 and wherein a quantum efficiency of the core-shell quantum dot is greater than or equal to about 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon-Yeong Kim, Soo Kyung Kwon, Yong Wook Kim, Ji-Yeong Kim, Jihyun Min, Sungwoo Hwang, Eun Joo Jang
  • Publication number: 20230183567
    Abstract: A core-shell quantum dot comprising zinc, a core comprising a first semiconductor nanocrystal material; and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core, wherein the core-shell quantum dot does not comprise cadmium, and does comprise zinc, tellurium, selenium, and aluminum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Ji-Yeong KIM, Soo Kyung KWON, Seon-Yeong KIM, Yong Wook KIM, Eun Joo JANG
  • Patent number: 11674078
    Abstract: A quantum dot including a core including a quaternary alloy semiconductor nanocrystal and not including cadmium, a composition and a quantum dot polymer composite including the same, and an electronic device including the same. The quaternary alloy semiconductor nanocrystal comprises indium (In), phosphorous (P), zinc (Zn), and selenium (Se), and in the core, a ratio of the zinc with respect to the indium is less than or equal to about 0.5:1 and in the core, a ratio of selenium with respect to zinc is less than or equal to about 0.6:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Kyung Kwon, Yong Wook Kim, Jihyun Min, Eun Joo Jang
  • Publication number: 20230138027
    Abstract: A display panel, including a light emitting panel including at least first and second light emitting units; and a color conversion panel including a surface opposite a surface of the light emitting panel and a color conversion layer including a first and second color conversion region and a partition wall defining the first and second color conversion region, wherein the first and second light emitting units are configured to provide the first color conversion region and the second color conversion region, respectively, with high energy incident light, wherein the first color conversion region includes a first semiconductor nanoparticle-polymer composite including a first polymer matrix including a polymer including a unit having a carboxyl group or an anion form of a carboxyl group, and further including, dispersed in the polymer matrix, first semiconductor nanoparticles an additional metal substance including a group IIB metal, a group IIIA metal, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Soo Kyung KWON, Yongwook KIM, Eun Joo JANG