Thanks
to the narrow line width and high brightness,
colloidal
quantum dot (CQD) lasers show promising applications in next-generation
displays. However, CQD laser-based displays have yet to be demonstrated
because of two challenges in integrating red, green, and blue (RGB)
lasers: absorption from red CQDs deteriorates the optical gain of
blue and green CQDs, and imbalanced white spectra lack blue lasing
due to the high lasing threshold of blue CQDs. Herein, we introduce
a facile surfactant-free self-assembly method to assemble RGB CQDs
into high-quality whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) RGB lasers with close
lasing thresholds among them. Moreover, these RGB lasers can lase
nearly independently even when they are closely integrated, and they
can construct an ultrawide color space whose color gamut is 105% of
that of the BT.2020 standard. These combined strategies allow us to
demonstrate the first full-color liquid crystal displays using CQD
lasers as the backlight source.