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A new “joint development agreement” that New Mexico-based Ubiquitous Quantum Dots signed in August with global solar-panel maker First Solar Inc. could soon convert the local startup into a mass supplier of quantum-dot technology.

Since launching in 2014, the Los Alamos-based company, UbiQD Inc., has worked to turn the nanoscale, three-dimensional structures known as quantum dots into sunlight-harvesting machines. It’s already using them to make solar-generating windows. And, among other things, it’s created plastic row covers for crops that are imbedded with quantum dots to accelerate greenhouse plant growth by manipulating the sun's rays.

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