One step closer to 3D

3DIcon Corporation's research team at the University of Oklahoma (OU) has reached two critical milestones in the development of its CSpace three-dimensional display technology.

The ultimate aim of the company is to develop a display that will comprise a clear, non-moving, volumetric projection medium into which light-emitting nano-materials will be been suspended. A three-dimensional image will be created by projecting precisely coordinated laser beams into the medium containing the nano-materials, exciting them to display the three primary colours of red, green, and blue and to create a full-colour volumetric image.

So far, the company's materials development team led by Dr Gerard Newman has synthesised unique nano-sized crystals that exhibit green fluorescence. Furthermore, they have successfully dispersed these nano-crystals within a clear host material. This dual achievement has resulted in the creation of a transparent three-dimensional projection medium capable of fluorescence.

'The creation of nano-crystals of the required size and dispersible characteristics is a very difficult feat, and the subsequent physical dispersion of the nano-material in the host material is even more challenging,' said Dr. Newman.