In a recent Nature Nanotechnology article, Gao et al. improve the wall plug efficiency of quantum dot (QD) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by reducing the QD packing number. This reduces the need for thermal management and brings QD-LEDs a crucial step closer to the performance of conventional LEDs. In a recent Nature Nanotechnology article, Gao et al. improve the wall plug efficiency of quantum dot (QD) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by reducing the QD packing number. This reduces the need for thermal management and brings QD-LEDs a crucial step closer to the performance of conventional LEDs.