Kahl am Main, April 17, 2024 – SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES has introduced a modular high-vacuum sputtering system of the type TIMARIS STM. The system offers significant progress in a specialized segment of semiconductor production: the manufacture of micro-LEDs. The first TIMARIS STM system has already been sold and delivered. Micro-LEDs are extremely small, self-illuminating semiconductor components that emit light when an electric current flows through them. Their small size, often in the micrometer range, distinguishes them from trad...

Shanghai, April 19, 2024 - JBD, a leading manufacturer of advanced MicroLED displays, has announced the launch of its groundbreaking AR Waveguide Display Testing and Correction Equipment - ARTCs. As the industry's first solution of addressing non-uniformities in diffractive waveguides, ARTCs delivers a major breakthrough in improving display image quality. It paves the way to meet consumer expectations for waveguide AR glasses, delivering exceptional visual experiences. The combination of MicroLED & diffractive waveguide has the merits of high brig...

Partnerships with Industry Leaders Create a “Blueprint” to Empower Customers to Manufacture MicroLED Displays and Micro Semi Products Efficiently  WATERLOO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 17, 2024 / VueReal, a pioneering force in MicroSolid Printing™, today announced a strategic partnership with Toray Engineering Co., Ltd., a renowned semiconductor tool manufacturer. This collaboration reflects another significant step in VueReal's mission to bolster its global partner ecosystem, which is dedicated to prope...

Last month Apple decided to cancel its microLED Watch project, which had very bad consequences for many microLED developers. Ams-Osram is still considering its options and it estimates its loss at $650-900 million, while Singapore-based electronics assembly solutions provider Kulicke & Soffa announced that it was also effected, to the tune of $110-130 million as it cancelled its own project with Apple. KLA Corporation recently announced that it is withdrawing from the FPD market altogether. The company entered this market when it bought Israeli Orbotech for ...

Expands Availability of Vuzix Shield for Enterprise Customers    ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), ("Vuzix" or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of smart glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced that its award-winning Vuzix Shield™ smart safety glasses are now available to the general public via www.Vuzix.com. Vuzix Shield initially launched against a limited fulfillment strategy, focused on ...

Researchers from Xiamen University have unveiled a self-polarizing RGB device that harnesses the power of semipolar MicroLEDs and perovskite-in-polymer films to drastically improve the energy efficiency of LCD backlights. This innovative technology tackles the long-standing issue of light intensity loss in traditional polarizing methods, which can filter out up to 50% of vertical polarization. Structure of an LCD based on semipolar blue μLEDs excite anisotropic perovskite NCs as backlight. (Source: Opto-Electronic Advances) The team, led by Associate Pr...

Both companies have been partnering for many years, while AIXTRON was now honored for the outstanding collaboration with BOE HC SemiTek on Micro LEDs.    Herzogenrath, April 08, 2024 – AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA) has received the prestigious Gold Supplier Award from BOE HC SemiTek for their collaboration in the field of Micro LED technology. The partnership between the leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry and BOE HC SemiTek spans over 19 years, dating back to the early 2000s. ...

Laser-assisted bonding bypasses one of the remaining roadblocks in volume microLED display production. Samsung wowed attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2024, with their huge, transparent microLED display. But there’s more to microLED displays than just good looks. They offer several advantages over other display technologies, such as LEDs and OLEDs. These include improved energy efficiency, longer lifetimes, higher brightness, and better color accuracy. In addition, utilizing microLEDs allows manufacturers to easily modify s...

Company Secures Funding-to-Date of Nearly $30M to Commercialize microLED Displays for Consumer AR LEUVEN, Belgium, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MICLEDI Microdisplays today announced a first closing of its Series A funding round with participation from imec.xpand, PMV, imec, KBC and SFPIM demonstrating strong support for the company’s value proposition and commercial and technological progress achieved in the seed round. Series A follows a significant seed round award and additional non-dilutive funding in the form of g...

(Image credit: Lenovo) Lenovo kicked off its day in MWC 2024 by showing Project Crystal, the brand’s laptop with a transparent microLED display panel. On that note, the brand also makes the claim that this is the first device of its kind to ever be made. Now, before you ask, allow us to set the record straight: if you’re hoping to see Project Crystal hitting the shelves anytime soon, you’re out of luck. Lenovo has made it clear that the laptop is, at current, simply concept device and there are no plans to push it out to the masses. And the reason wh...

On January 31, BOE HC SemiTek celebrated the topping-out ceremony for its Micro LED wafer manufacturing, packaging and testing base in Jinwan District, Zhuhai. This marks a new phase in the development of the Chinese manufacturer’s Micro LED research, development and production. Considering the strong support for next-gen display development from the local government of Zhuhai, BOE HC SemiTek has invested 2 billion yuan to construct a Micro LED wafer manufacturing, packaging and testing base in the city. The entire project aims to launch LED ...

Xiamen University and Latticepower Co Ltd in China report on the characteristics of micron-scale light-emitting diodes (LEDs) fabricated from aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) structures grown on silicon (Si) with a view to their use in displays, particular for virtual-reality and augmented-reality (VR/AR) systems [Xi Zheng et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v124, p051103, 2024]. The team comments: “Few investigations have been carried out on the chromatic characteristics of the InGaN-based red, green and blue (RGB) micro-LEDs system grown on silico...

The deeptech Aledia unveils its strategic vision to transform the MicroLED market, focusing on strategic expansion, seeking additional funding, and bolstering its executive team. PARIS, France, January 30, 2024 (Newswire.com) - Aledia, a leader in the development of MicroLED technology for next-generation displays, today unveils its ambitious growth and development strategy, orchestrated by Pierre Laboisse, the new President and CEO who joined the company last September. Market and Financial Roadmap Capitalizing on its unique 3D wireLED technology...

Best-in-Class Green and Blue Arrays for Ultra-Compact Monochrome Displays Deliver Elevated Visual Experiences. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MICLEDI Microdisplays, a leading technology company in the field of microLED (µLED) displays for high-end Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, is on hand at SPIE AR-VR-MR at Photonics West this week to showcase its range of R, G and B µLEDs. These demonstrations highlight excellent color performance in each color point across the full range of drive c...

CEA-Leti will present two papers on its microLED technology advances at Photonics West 2024 about making matrices of LEDs with increased data-rate density, and strategies to reduce their efficiency loss at small sizes. Described in the paper, “Parallel Communication with InGaN/GaN Micro-LEDs Using a CMOS Compatible Approach”, making LEDs directly on a 200 mm silicon substrate opens the way to producing a matrix of LEDs of a few microns that are individually controlled by dedicated CMOS circuits. (Jan. 31, 9:00 – 9:20 am PST...

In a recent announcement, Saphlux, Inc. revealed that its NPQD® Monolithic Full-Color Micro-LED (mLED) technology has successfully undergone a new round of technological upgrades. Following this advancement, the company has launched the enhanced T2 series micro-displays. The Saphlux T series micro-displays incorporate core technologies, including NPQD® and large-scale silicon-based bonding, specifically tailored for AR display applications. The series currently encompasses 0.12-inch monochrome single-color (red, green, blue) micro-displays and 0.39-inc...

Swiss startup Scrona has used its electrohydrodynamic (EHD) inkjet printing for microLED displays with quantum dots. The development with Avantama combines Scrona’s EHD inkjet process with high-patterning resolution of perovskite quantum dots (QDs) for more efficient and cost effective microLED display manufacturing, increasing colour purity and brightness. “We are not there yet for industrial production but what we see is the industry working on the technology such as colour conversion and the one thing that is important to us is the viability of the...

Porotech and PSMC announce the partnership for mass producing the MicroLEDs on 200mm GaN-on-Silicon for display applications. 【2024.01.23 Cambridge】 Poro Technologies Ltd (“Porotech”), a pioneer in GaN-based semiconductor technology and a global fabless MicroLED company, and Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (“PSMC”), one of the world’s leading semiconductor foundries, announce a strategic partnership in MicroLEDs for display applications. This partnership will expedite the production of b...

（Source：TechNews） Taiwan’s Ennostar has announced that it is moving ahead with the strategic sale of some assets as its board of directors approves measures for the company to facilitate a reorganization of its finance. As a result, it is selling its Zhunan plant for NT$670 million ($21 million) with a small profit from the sale. Ennostar has low utilization rates at existing blue LED at its Jingdian and been actively reorganization resources in Taiwan, and optimizing the use of plant space. The company initially planned to build a new MicroLED production ...

In 2023, Vistar broke ground on what it claimed to be the world’s first TFT MicroLED production line. The company said that it was aiming to achieve mass production by end of 2024, initially targeting large commercial displays. It was being touted as a milestone achievement in TFT MicroLED industrialization. Now, the company has announced the fruits of its labor. Source: Vistar TFT MicroLED uniquely merges MicroLED benefits like high brightness and efficiency with TFT backplanes’ scalability and cost efficiencies for driving modular design...

WORLD’S FIRST TRANSPARENT CAR DISPLAY AT CES 2024 Continental brings the dubbed world’s first transparent car display made of Swarovski crystal to CES 2024. The company teams up with Swarovski Mobility to create a frameless and semi-transparent look for the 10-inch, see-through car display. It surfaces through MicroLED technology, which helps the screen gain clear brightness and contrast for easy viewing. The panel, housed in carved Swarovski crystal, appears as if it were floating on the dashboard, given its translucent body...

CES 2024, which happened a few days ago, was filled with giant TVs. And some of the biggest and most impressive TVs were showcased by Samsung. Apart from its new QLED and Neo QLED TV lineups that feature up to 98-inch sizes, Samsung also had some impressively giant 140-inch TVs at its booth, and we had a chance to check them out. Hands-on with Samsung's giant 140-inch Micro LED TV at CES 2024 Samsung showcased its new Micro LED TV lineup that consists of five ready-to-use sizes: 76-inch, 89-inch, 101-inch, 114-inch, and 140-inch. Of cours...

The connected eyewear debuted at CES 2024 and can generate multiple virtual screens. ASUS ASUS has introduced quite a lengthy list of products at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, including a high-tech eyewear called the AirVision M1. It's not really a competitor to the upcoming Apple Vision Pro and the mixed reality headgears other companies debuted at the event, though. The AirVision M1 is a wearable display with the ability to generate multiple virtual screens, supposedly so that users can juggle several tasks at once. It's equipped with an FHD (1,920 x ...

The prototype RayNeo X2 begins shipping to developers early this year. If augmented reality glasses become a groundbreaking product category, they will need to look similar to regular prescription glasses. TCL is showcasing a pair of frames at CES 2023 that — while inching further in that direction — accentuate how tall of an order that still is. TCL describes its RayNeo X2 AR glasses as having a “subtle and lightweight body for everyday wear,” but their comically oversized nature makes us question whether “subtle” was the best word...

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. & LEUVEN, Belgium – Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high performance micro-displays for defense, enterprise, consumer and medical products, and MICLEDI Microdisplays, a fabless semiconductor design and technology company developing microLED displays for Augmented Reality (AR), today announced a strategic agreement to work together to design, develop, and manufacture advanced microLED displays to provide a more immersive and information-rich AR exper...

Recently, researchers at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (NYUST) have developed a Micro LED control and driving system based on block addressing to enhance the processing and throughput capabilities of Micro LED screens for signal display, thereby enhancing the refresh rate of Micro LEDs. 圖片來源：Science Direct Compared to LCD and OLED display technologies, Micro LED features a faster response time and can achieve high refresh rates. In order to further improve the refresh rate of Micro LED displays, researchers at NY...

Tsinghua University and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics in China have reported on the use of freestanding gallium nitride substrates (FGS) for red indium gallium nitride (InGaN) micro-light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in terms of efficiency and uniformity across arrays of devices [Luming Yu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v123, p232106, 2023]. The researchers claim that InGaN red micro-LEDs with etching-defined mesa size <5μm have not previously been reported. Although it is difficult to achieve high efficiency using indium gallium nitrid...

- A KAIST research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee demonstrates the transfer printing of a large number of micro-sized inorganic semiconductor chips via the selective modulation of micro-vacuum force. MicroLEDs are a light source for next-generation displays that utilize inorganic LED chips with a size of less than 100 μm. MicroLEDs have attracted a great deal of attention due to their superior electrical/optical properties, reliability, and stability compared to conventional displays such as LCD, OLED, and QD. To commercialize microLEDs, transfer ...

XIAMEN, China, Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 27th, Tianma Innovation Conference (TIC) 2023 was held in Xiamen with the theme of INNOVATION TO INSPIRE, A WONDEROUS FUTURE. Seven Innovative Achievements Seven Innovative Achievements Highlighted Seven Innovative Achievements Seven Innovative Achievements In this era of technological innovation, Tianma, as always, understands the rhythm of the times and adheres to the underlying model of "scenario application" + "technological innovation&q...

Porotech and Foxconn form partnership to expedite the commercialization of MicroLED Microdisplays for augmented reality (AR) applications aiming to establish world’s first complete end-to-end, viable supply chain. 【2023.12.15 Taipei】 Poro Technologies Ltd (“Porotech”), a pioneer in GaN-based semiconductor technology and a global fabless MicroLED company, and Hon Hai Technology Group (“Foxconn”) (TWSE: 2317), the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and technology service provider, announce a strategic partnership ...