2024
- 19th March 2024
  UbiQD’s Quantum Dot Greenhouse Technology Wins 2024 SXSW Innovation Award and U.S. Department of Agriculture SBIR Grant
- 18th March 2024
  Los Alamos’ UbiQD recognized at South by Southwest (SXSW)
- 12th March 2024
  UbiQD takes home SXSW Innovation Award for new greenhouse technology
- 11th March 2024
  2024 SXSW Innovation Awards Winners Announced
- 6th February 2024
  A Further Look at UbiQD’s Quantum Dot Technology for Agriculture, Solar, and Beyond
- 25th January 2024
  2024 SXSW Innovation Awards Finalists Announced
2023
- 21st December 2023
  Scenes From UbiQD’s Christmas Party At Fuller Lodge
- 18th December 2023
  Tailoring the color spectrum of sunlight to improve crop growth
- 14th December 2023
  UbiGro Aims for Innovation in How Growers Optimize Sunlight
- 16th November 2023
  UbiQD rolls out new greenhouse product, eyes bigger New Mexico manufacturing facility
- 15th November 2023
  Quantum Dot Leader Unveils UbiGro® Cover to Enhance Greenhouse Productivity
- 6th October 2023
  Nobel Prize for Quantum Dots Validates the Broad Applicability of UbiQD’s Core Technology
- 4th October 2023
  Your Guide to the Newest Nobel Prize: Quantum Dots
- 21st September 2023
  Fastest Growing Companies – Small category
- 3rd September 2023
  Injecting ‘quantum dots’ into solar panels
- 24th August 2023
  Los Alamos Based UbiQD Executes On Local Economic Development
- 21st August 2023
  Richard Eeds Show – Hunter McDaniel, UbiQD Founder and CEO
- 16th August 2023
  Partnership with public solar company largest deal yet for this Los Alamos startup
- First Solar explores potential of quantum-dot solar modules
- UbiQD Expands Quantum Dot Capacity With New Manufacturing System
- 15th August 2023
  UbiQD Expands Collaboration with First Solar on Quantum Dot-Enhanced Solar Modules
- 16th July 2023
  Nanotechnology: Coming to a Greenhouse Near You
- 10th July 2023
  UbiQD partner with IMOD for Educational Outreach event with SPIN Girls
- 20th June 2023
  NREL Windows Research Clearly Making a Difference
- 16th May 2023
  Los Alamos-based UbiQD Recognized As Best Overall Venture At 2023 NREL Industry Growth Forum
- UbiQD Recognized as Best Overall Venture at the 2023 NREL Industry Growth Forum
- 3rd May 2023
  News Release: 6 Earn Top Awards at 2023 NREL Industry Growth Forum
- 22nd April 2023
  Earth Day 2023 – Igniting a Brighter Future for Our Earth
- 28th March 2023
  Undecided with Matt Ferrell: How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture – Agrivoltaics Revisited
- 23rd March 2023
  Best day ever for GreenTech Americas
- 28th February 2023
  Click | Hunter McDaniel | Strategizing for Corporate Partnership
- 2nd January 2023
  UbiQD 2022: Year in Review
2022
- 5th December 2022
  NASA Funds Scale-Up of Fluorescent Greenhouse Roofing Technology
- 30th November 2022
  Luminescent solar concentrators for agrivoltaics, greenhouses
- UbiQD launches two new greenhouse film products
- 5th November 2022
  Transparent solar panels will soon become a window of energy and light in your home
- 26th October 2022
  Window to a Solar Future
- 22nd September 2022
  International partnership will help Los Alamos company commercialize its technology
- 20th September 2022
  UbiQD and SICPA Expand Partnership on Anti-Counterfeit Security Inks
- 22nd August 2022
  UbiQD- Leveraging quantum dots to improve crop yield & harvesting sunlight to generate electricity
- 17th August 2022
  U.S. Air Force Funds Photovoltaic Window Technology on Military Bases
- 21st May 2022
  New Mexico-based ‘quantum dot’ maker growing by leaps and bounds
- 15th May 2022
  On The Job In Los Alamos: Liseth Garay At UbiQD
- 8th May 2022
  On The Job In Los Alamos: Kimberly Carson At UbiQD
- 28th April 2022
  UbiQD and SWM International Agree to Co-Develop Next Generation Quantum Dot Interlayers for Electricity-Producing Windows
- 12th April 2022
  Albuquerque Business First honored Hunter McDaniel, Founder, and CEO of UbiQD, for its annual 40 Under 40 Awards
- 30th March 2022
  Orange is the New Green, for Greenhouses
- 29th March 2022
  Quantum Dots and Climate Change – E89 Carbotnic Podcast
- 21st March 2022
  UbiQD to develop new type of greenhouse roof with Canadian company
- UbiQD and Heliene Initiate Joint Development of Agrivoltaic Modules for Greenhouses
- Photoluminescent solar PV for greenhouses
- 18th February 2022
  JTIP Funds Approved for UbiQD in February
- 17th February 2022
  UbiQD says its greenhouse tech can lead to increased crop growth
- 8th February 2022
  UbiQD Shares New Greenhouse Case Studies, Launches UbiGro.com AgTech Website
- 7th February 2022
  These Holiday Inn windows have a secret job
2021
- 17th December 2021
  High-level IP attorney joins Los Alamos tech startup after three decades at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 1st November 2021
  UbiQD Installs Quantum Dot Solar Window Pilots in Commercial Buildings
- 6th October 2021
  UbiQD on The Richard Eeds Show
- 24th August 2021
  New Grant for Photovoltaics Research Center Will Support Net Zero Push
- 1st July 2021
  SPIE: “A billion windows on quantum dots”
- 27th January 2021
  UbiQD Publishes Initial Results of a NASA-Funded Agriculture Study, Optimizing Spectral Quality for Growing Plants on Space Missions Using Quantum Dot Films
- Comms Bio: Optimizing spectral quality with quantum dots to enhance crop yield in controlled environments
- 24th January 2021
  Journal North: ‘Tweaking sunlight’
- 13th January 2021
  LA Daily Post: Homegrown New Mexico Science And Tech Companies Including UbiQD Awarded Innovation Research Grants
2020
- 9th December 2020
  UbiQD Announces $7M in Series A Funding to Scale Deployment of Quantum Dot Technology in Agriculture and Energy
- 12th October 2020
  HortiDaily: The Coupling of Nanotech and Luminescence to Optimize Greenhouse Light
- 24th September 2020
  Breakout Labs Spotlight Series: From Farm to Table — Quantum Dots That Do it All
- 15th September 2020
  Printed Electronics Now Q&A: Nanosys, UbiQD Bringing Quantum Dots to Agriculture
- 7th September 2020
  New Scientist: Windows Become Transparent Solar Panels with Added Nanoparticles
- 1st September 2020
  UbiQD CEO Editorial: Why Green Energy Needs an Aesthetics Revolution
- 27th August 2020
  IMID2020: Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrators: The Future of Energy
- 20th August 2020
  Los Alamos Monitor: A Summer of Innovation
- 19th August 2020
  NMEDD: August JTIP Funds Support 457 New Jobs
- 13th August 2020
  Optimizing the Aesthetics of High-Performance CIS/ZnS Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrator Windows
- 16th July 2020
  Los Alamos ScienceFest 2020: Space Veggies – How Quantum Dots Help Grow Vegetables on Earth & Space
- 7th July 2020
  Eyes on UbiQD – Los Alamos Science Fest 2020
- UbiQD and Solvay Announce Greenhouse Technology Development Partnership
- 4th June 2020
  IEEE: Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight’s Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth
- 20th May 2020
  Fast Company: ‘Quantum dot’ tech helps grow more plants by making sunlight more powerful
- UbiQD and Nanosys Partner to Improve Greenhouse Crop Yields
- 7th February 2020
  Hello Tomorrow 2020: UbiQD Recognized as Top 7 Global Food & Agriculture Startup
2019
- 17th December 2019
  Agritech Tomorrow: Photosynthetically Efficient Colors for Crop Growth and Biomass Accumulation
- 2nd December 2019
  NASA Awards UbiQD Second, Larger Contract to “Tailor the Solar Spectrum for Enhanced Crop Yield for Space Missions”
- 19th November 2019
  Albuquerque Journal: Harvesting of Red Light Accelerates Plant Growth
- 5th November 2019
  UbiQD Earns 2019 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award
- 26th September 2019
  Get in my Garden Podcast: Materials of the Future to Increase Greenhouse Yields
- 19th August 2019
  MCX Material Insight: UbiQD Dots
- 24th July 2019
  Upside.FM Podcast: UP051: UbiQD // making low-hazard quantum dots
- 23rd July 2019
  UbiQD Announces Novel Quantum Dot Optical Fiber Technology That Delivers Extra Light to the Lower Canopy of Plants
- 10th July 2019
  Fiber-Coupled Luminescent Concentrators for Medical Diagnostics, Agriculture, and Telecommunications
- 19th March 2019
  UbiQD Wins 2019 SXSW Pitch Competition, Hyper-Connected Communities Category
- 27th February 2019
  UbiQD Mourns the Passing of Board Member Katharine Chartrand
- 14th February 2019
  Phys.org: Quantum Bees
- 22nd January 2019
  Catalyzing Commercialization: Quantum Dot Windows Produce Low-Cost Renewable Energy
- 10th January 2019
  Technology Validation with NREL via the Wells Fargo IN2 Program
- 9th January 2019
  UbiQD Selected as Finalist for 2019 SXSW Pitch
2018
- 28th November 2018
  UbiQD Selected for SBIR Match
- 27th November 2018
  UbiQD Launches Its First QD Product, UbiGro Greenhouse Film
- 31st October 2018
  UbiQD Joins Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) Program
- 7th September 2018
  Evidence of Band-Edge Hole Levels Inversion in Spherical CuInS2 Quantum Dots
- 20th August 2018
  Strem and UbiQD Sign Distribution Agreement for Cadmium-Free Quantum Dots
- 19th August 2018
  NASA Contract Media Coverage
- 13th August 2018
  NASA Awards UbiQD Contract to Develop Greenhouse Films for Space Missions
- 10th July 2018
  While connecting dots – conversation with UbiQD CEO (2/2)
- 6th July 2018
  Connecting correct dots – conversation with UbiQD CEO (1/2)
- 21st March 2018
  A novel pollen-tracking method: using (UbiQD) quantum dots as pollen labels
- 15th March 2018
  Udall, Heinrich, Luján Announce $750,000 Grant for Los Alamos Manufacturing Company to Continue Developing Solar Energy Window Technology
- 12th March 2018
  National Science Foundation Awards UbiQD Phase II SBIR Grant
- 9th February 2018
  How quantum dots supercharge farming, medicine and solar, too
- Add jobs by backing training program (OpEd)
- 30th January 2018
  High-Performance CuInS2 Quantum Dot Laminated Glass Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Windows
- 24th January 2018
  The Dawn of Solar Windows
- 14th January 2018
  Double-Paned Solar Windows Crank Up Efficiency
2017
- 27th November 2017
  UbiQD And Descartes Labs Announce Expansions
- 19th October 2017
  Deal of the Week: NM startup lands a key investment from major Silicon Valley name
- 16th October 2017
  Growing Quantum Dot Manufacturer, UbiQD, Named Breakout Labs Portfolio Company
- 7th September 2017
  Novel Light Emission Mechanisms in UbiQD Dots
- 14th August 2017
  New Mexico company licenses innovative solar panel technology from two Washington universities
- UbiQD Signs License Agreement with Western Washington University and University of Washington for Luminescent Solar Concentrator Technology
- 9th August 2017
  3 New Mexicans to know who are behind budding startups
- 7th August 2017
  Tech company [plans to] buy building in Los Alamos
- 3rd August 2017
  Northern NM startup gets loan to buy building
- 2nd August 2017
  Dr. Hunter McDaniel from UbiQD, Founder and CEO – New Mexico Career Profile
- 31st July 2017
  Los Alamos company’s innovation ignites prospect of energy-gathering windows
- 29th July 2017
  Council Approves $325,000 LEDA Loan For UbiQD
- 13th July 2017
  UbiQD Promotes Los Alamos ScienceFest on KRSN
- 29th June 2017
  Los Alamos startup hires trio of science, business experts, continues to grow staff
- 28th June 2017
  UbiQD Welcomes Three New Employees to its New Mexico-Based Team
- 14th June 2017
  Spectro-electrochemical Probing of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Processes in Exciton Recombination in I–III–VI2 Nanocrystals
- 1st June 2017
  UbiQD Headlines Los Alamos County Economic Development Report
- 28th April 2017
  Trio of NM startups working with national labs to advance next-generation technologies
- 21st April 2017
  Phase-Transfer Ligand Exchange of Lead Chalcogenide Quantum Dots for Direct Deposition of Thick, Highly Conductive Films
- 10th April 2017
  UbiQD Announces Record Efficiency from its Cadmium-Free Quantum Dots
- 30th March 2017
  Tech CEOs reflect on soon-to-close Tech Ventures Corp.
- 6th March 2017
  One Company’s Dream: To Power the Cities of the Future
- 3rd March 2017
  Quantum Dot Thin-Films as Rugged, High-Performance Photocathodes
- 19th January 2017
  New Mexico Business Subsidies For Job Training Top $5.5 Million In 4th Quarter, 2016
- 18th January 2017
  Quantum Dots Forum: Exclusive Interview With Founder Of UbiQD
- 11th January 2017
  U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Mexico
- 10th January 2017
  Lumileds, UbiQD and More to Headline at the 2017 Quantum Dots Forum
2016
- 21st November 2016
  UbiQD will Present at the 2017 Quantum Dots Forum
- 15th November 2016
  Five Los Alamos Innovations Win R&D 100 Awards
- 10th October 2016
  Doctor-blade deposition of quantum dots onto standard window glass for low-loss large-area luminescent solar concentrators
- 11th September 2016
  Los Alamos Dots – KOAT7
- Entrepreneurs discuss starting a business based on LANL technology
- 29th August 2016
  UbiQD on KRSN 1490 AM
- UbiQD Receives DOE Award
- 25th August 2016
  Sandia, Los Alamos Labs Land 18 Finalists for R&D 100 awards
- 24th August 2016
  Garcia Richard Visits with Tech Transfer Companies
- 8th August 2016
  Two NM Companies Pickup Funding in DOE Clean Energy Pilot Program
- 3rd August 2016
  UbiQD Technology Could “Change World”
- 2nd August 2016
  Udall, Heinrich, Luján Announce $225,000 Grant For Los Alamos Manufacturing Company To Develop Solar Energy Technology
- 1st August 2016
  UbiQD Wins Grant to Turn Windows into Solar Generators
- National Science Foundation Awards Quantum Dot Company UbiQD SBIR Phase I Grant to Pursue Licensed Solar Energy Technology
- 31st July 2016
  Scenes From UbiQD Grand Opening In Los Alamos And An Inside Look At The New Facility
- 7th July 2016
  UbiQD Awarded U.S. Patent
- 22nd June 2016
  NSF SBIR Phase I: Luminescent Solar Concentrating Glass Window Quantum Dot Coatings
- 9th May 2016
  ACS Photonics – Quality Factor of Luminescent Solar Concentrators and Practical Concentration Limits Attainable with Semiconductor Quantum Dots
- 27th April 2016
  NPR: New Mexico’s Ski Lift Pitch Matches Entrepreneurs With Investors
- 3rd March 2016
  UbiQD wins ABQid Ski Lift Pitch Contest
- 18th February 2016
  UbiQD’s McDaniel Briefs Kiwanis on His New Business
- 17th February 2016
  Albuquerque Business First – These entrepreneurs will make their pitch on a Taos ski lift
- 26th January 2016
  ACS Nano – Size-Dependent Exciton Formation Dynamics in Colloidal Silicon QDs
- 25th January 2016
  Department of Energy – UbiQD Awarded SBIR Grant SSL Technology (FY16 PHASE I RELEASE 1)
2015
- 26th November 2015
  Udall Introduces Updated Bill To Expand DOE Tech Transfer, Build NM’s Economy
- 19th November 2015
  Los Alamos Technology Gains National Backing
- 17th November 2015
  UbiQD Named Top High-Growth Company and Job Creator in Northern NM, Closes Round of Financing
- 5th October 2015
  Top 10 Quantum Dot Companies in 2015, UbiQD named #7
- New Materials News – Top 10 Quantum Dot Companies in 2015, UbiQD named #7
- 27th August 2015
  New Materials News – UbiQD President: We’re looking for partner to bring QD photovoltaic windows to market
- 24th August 2015
  Nature Nanotechnology – Highly Efficient Large-Area Colourless Luminescent SolarConcentrators Using Heavy-Metal-Free QDs
- 7th July 2015
  Santa Fe Scene – Naked Business: Scientist 2 Startup
- 18th June 2015
  Santa Fe Scene – Postdoc Metamorphosis
- 21st May 2015
  KVSF 101.5 The Voice of Santa Fe – Podcast of Dr. Hunter McDaniel on the Robert Eeds Radio Show
- 19th May 2015
  New Materials News – Cd-based QD tech should stay legal until truly non-toxic solution found, says UbiQD President
- 18th May 2015
  UbiQD Raises Funds, Finalizes Licensing
- Albuquerque Journal – Quantum-dot tech startup UbiQD reports progress, raises funds, finalizes licensing
- 12th May 2015
  Los Alamos Daily Post – Quantum Dot Startup Takes Another Quantum Leap
- 11th May 2015
  UbiQD Licenses Technology Developed at MIT and LANL
- 4th May 2015
  Venture Acceleration Fund Invests in UbiQD
- 3rd February 2015
  New Mexico Consortium Supports Quantum Dot Start-Up
- 22nd January 2015
  Tuning Carrier Mobilities and Polarity of Charge Transport in Films of CuInSexS2–x Quantum Dots
2014
- 17th December 2014
  KVSF 101.5 The Voice of Santa Fe – Back in the Black: Getting Beyond the Hard Times
- 20th October 2014
  Albuquerque Journal – Marketable Technologies Abundant in New Mexico
- 29th September 2014
  TEDxLANL – Quantum Dots and the Importance of Thinking Small
- 12th September 2014
  Los Alamos Daily Post – LACDC’s LAVA 2014 Elevator Pitch Winners Announced at LANL Feynman Awards
- 18th August 2014
  Albuquerque Journal – 10 Startups Present at Venture Summit

10th October 2016

Doctor-blade deposition of quantum dots onto standard window glass for low-loss large-area luminescent solar concentrators

A new paper on the window tech that UbiQD is licensing was recently published by the Klimov group in Nature Energy, find it here. Several articles were published on the paper: LANL: Quantum-dot solar windows evolve with ‘doctor-blade’ spreading IEEE Spectrum: Quantum-Dot Coating Could Pull Solar Energy From Your Windows inhabitat: National laboratory scales up quantum-dot solar windows that can power entire buildings Phys.org: Quantum-dot solar windows evolve with 'doctor-blade' spreading

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