2023-06-30

AUO Consecutively Recognized by the Manufacturing Leadership Awards for AI-Driven Digital Innovation in Enabling Efficient Digital Supply Chains

Igniting Digital Transformation through Organizational and Cultural Changes: AUO University Cultivating Internal Cross-Domain Experts, Driving the AUO Transformational Strides AUO today announced that it has received the Manufacturing Leadership Awards (MLA) by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) for the second time. With its advanced digital technology and smart solutions, AUO has maintained stable manufacturing production and smart management during a period of global transformation throughout the industry, and has been recognized in th...
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2023-06-09

Kopin Achieves Important Milestone in Development of Ultra-High Brightness µLED Microdisplay

Approaches 3 million nits brightness and customer commenced integration WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – Kopin® Corporation (Nasdaq: KOPN), a leading provider of application specific optical systems and high-performance micro-displays for defense, enterprise, professional and consumer markets, today announced that it has achieved an important milestone in the development of its superbright 2K x 2K monochrome MicroLED display. Micro-displays used in Augmented Reality (AR) applications require very high brightness for a user to see images clearly and crisp...
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2023-05-29

IQE announces 200 mm RGB epitaxy for microLED display qualification

IQE plc has launched a new portfolio of 200 mm (8-inch) Red, Green and Blue (RGB) epitaxial wafer products for microLED display qualification. MicroLEDs based upon gallium nitride (GaN) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors are a disruptive new display technology that is being designed into multiple new platforms such as wearables, AR/VR headsets and large format displays. IQE’s GaN and GaAs epitaxy is critical in enabling faster adoption of microLEDs. This is because its leading technology, high-volume manufacturing platforms and result...
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2023-05-24

Seoul Semiconductor Unveils 2nd-generation LED Technology for Future Displays at Display Week 2023

ANSAN, South Korea--Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:046890), a global optical semiconductor company, will participate in the Society for Information Display (SID)’s Display Week 2023, scheduled for May 23 to 25, to unveil its second-generation LED technologies for future displays, including WICOP-Pixel-based microLED displays and Low Blue Light (LBL) displays that help maintain the health of users' eyes. MicroLED displays based on WICOP Pixel, the world's first RGB one-chip technology During this exhibiti...
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2023-05-19

SMARTKEM, INC. CEO TO GIVE KEYNOTE SPEECH AT THE BUSINESS CONFERENCE AT DISPLAY WEEK 2023

MANCHESTER, England, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartKem, Inc. (OTCQB: SMTK), a company seeking to reshape the world of electronics with its disruptive organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) that have the potential to drive the next generation of displays, is a gold sponsor of this year's Business Conference at Display Week 2023 taking place in Los Angeles, USA. SmartKem Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ian Jenks, will be giving the keynote speech on Wednesday, May 24th at 9:40am PT. DATE: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 TIM...
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2023-05-08

Researchers Build the "Smallest LED," Aim to Turn Smartphone Cameras Into Holographic Microscopes

Smaller than the wavelength of light it emits, this tiny silicon LED could mean a big breakthrough for microscopy and more. A research team from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) claim to have built the "world's smallest LED" — and say the technology could be used to turn smartphone cameras into high-resolution microscopes in the future. "Our breakthrough represents a proof of concept that could be hugely impactful for numerous applications requiring the use of micro-LEDs," claims Iksung Kang, resear...
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2023-04-27

Ennostar's Six Arrows Shot at Once at Touch Taiwan: An Insight into Next-gen Display Technology

HSINCHU, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ennostar Group (Stock Code: 3714) and its subsidiaries (EPISTAR, Lextar, Unikorn, Yenrich and ProLight) together greatly exhibited the latest cutting-edge technology products and research and development technology to demonstrate the comprehensive benefits of group integration at 2023 Touch Taiwan with the theme of "Lead the Way" which focused on topics of Micro LED, Mini LED, automotive, sensing, metaverse and next-generation compound semiconductor. Showing technology re-evolution and planting new e...
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2023-04-13

AUO leads ecosystem partners toward commercialized Micro LED mass production

At Touch Taiwan 2023, AUO and its ecosystem partners will showcase a variety of modules, systems, and solutions ranging from LED chips, mass transfer technology, and packaging, highlighting its crucial milestone in the commercialization of Micro LED technology. As AUO pioneers mass production of the 1.39-inch Micro LED Smartwatch, it signals the start of end product development and sets sail toward the new blue ocean in smart living. Micro LED displays offer advantages including high brightness, high contrast, wide color gamut, wide viewing angle, and high rel...
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2023-04-12

Rohinni Adopts CyberOptics MRS-Enabled SQ3000 Multi-Function system for Inspection and Metrology of Rohinni’s Micro LED Technology

Rohinni combines vision, execution and micron-scale electronics to make impossible products possible. Using its patented device-placement technologies, Rohinni, together with its joint venture partners, enables bringing innovative products to market in high volumes, and at greatly reduced cost. Example of micro/mini LED solutions. Challenge Micro LEDs developed using Rohinni’s technology can be deployed in consumer electronics devices, automotive applications and outdoor signage, among other applications. The disruptive technology enables products that are brighte...
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2023-04-10

DigiLens Announces Launch of SRG+DigiLens Announces Launch of SRG+

SRG+ is set to revolutionize the industry by delivering reflective efficiencies at an HOE cost SRG+ breakthrough features (Graphic: Business Wire) SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigiLens Inc., a global leader in waveguide technology, is proud to announce the launch of SRG+, the next level of surface relief gratings (SRG) that advances DigiLens' current industry-leading volume Bragg gratings (VBG) with improved efficiency, uniformity, increased field of view, and compact form factor — all at a low price point, and with the...
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2023-04-06

Mojo Vision Raises $22.4M in First Close of New Series A Round for Development of High Performance Micro-LED Technology

Funding led by NEA and Khosla Ventures New CEO Nikhil Balram brings semiconductor and display expertise to company.   SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, today announced a $22.4 million new Series A investment round to propel the development and commercialization of its micro-LED display technology for consumer, enterprise and government applications. The funding round is led by existing investors, NEA and Khosla Ventures, with participation from additional investors including Dolb...
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2023-04-06

Mojo Vision Secures Series A Round for Development of Micro-LED Technology

Today, Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, announced a new Series A investment round led by New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) and Khosla Ventures. This investment will propel the development and commercialization of its micro-LED display technology — a market forecasted to exceed $160 billion by 2026. Mojo Vision’s micro-LED technology delivers a world-record pixel pitch of over 14,000ppi. Their High Performance Quantum Dot (HPQD) technology creates small, bright, and efficient RGB pixels. The design uses an advanced ...
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2023-03-30

Samsung and KAIST transform MicroLED for wearables and VR

Some reports suggest that Samsung could soon receive the key for manufacturing highly efficient MicroLED screens. Some researchers at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) have discovered a new method that entitles modifying the epitaxial structure of MicroLEDs. When it comes to manufacturing highly-efficient MicroLED screens, one of the biggest problems is efficiency degradation. In other words, we can say that the etching process has the potential to create defects on the pixel sides. There is an inverse relation between pixels and d...
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2023-03-30

Touch Taiwan 2023: MicroLED Innovations and Eco-Friendly Display Technologies Highlighted

Touch Taiwan 2023, one of the largest exhibitions in Asia for the semiconductor and display industries, is set to take place from April 19 to 21 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1. The exhibition will feature the latest and most advanced MicroLED related products and display technologies from leading companies such as AUO, Innolux, Ennostar, E Ink, Corning, Merck, GIS, PlayNitride, BenQ and Macroblock. Micro LED display technology has emerged as a promising technology for the next generation of displays, offering higher brightness, better colo...
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2023-03-29

Researchers Highlight the Design of Meta-Display Technology Using Micro-LEDs

For the first time, the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (President Sang Jin Park, hereby termed as KIMM), an institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, has invented a new stretchable meta-display technology that can be extended up to 25% without image degradation. Dr. Bongkyun Jang, a senior researcher at KIMM’s Department of Nano-Mechanics, and members of his research group have produced a distortion-free stretchable meta-display during uniaxial stretching, and their results were published in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Functi...
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2023-03-28

LG Display Borrows from LG Electronics to increase OLED Competitiveness

On March 27, LG Display announced that it would borrow 1 trillion won (US$771 million) from LG Electronics to sharpen its OLED business competitiveness and preemptively secure operating funds. The borrowing period is three years, from March 30 2023 to March 30, 2026. Its interest rate is 6.06 percent per annum. It is a borrowing payable in one year with a two-year grace period. As of the end of 2022, LG Display’s cash and cash equivalents amounted to 1.8246 trillion won (US$1.4064 billion). Nevertheless, it received the preemptive loan in order to boost ...
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2023-03-08

Avicena partners with ams OSRAM to enable high-volume future production of ultra-low energy chip-to-chip interconnects

San Diego, CA — March 6, 2023 — AvicenaTech Corp., a privately held company in Sunnyvale, CA, has partnered with ams OSRAM to develop high-volume manufacturing of GaN microLED arrays for its industry-leading LightBundle™ communication architecture. The need for next generation computing power is here, driven by strong AI/ML and HPC application demand – for products like ChatGPT, DALL-E, autonomous vehicle training, and many others. Attempts to scale current architectures are running headlong into physical limits leading to slow...
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2023-02-24

MIT stacks LEDs vertically for high-resolution digital screens

Vertical multicolored micro-LED allows smaller pixels and higher pixel density. Upright position: vertical pixels A project at MIT has developed a possible new route to sharper defect-free displays, by stacking the light emitting diodes into vertical multicolored pixels. Although the size of conventional LED pixels has been consistently reduced over recent years, they are reaching a point where the small size can affect their performance, according to MIT. This is particularly true for displays designed to sit close to the viewer's eyes, such as those in aug...
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2023-02-23

JBD has made a major breakthrough in R&D technology, helping Smart Glasses lead the consumer market

As the world's leading micro-display manufacturer, JBD has built complete lines for MicroLED micro-display development by possessing independent IC design, MOCVD epi growth, hybrid-integration technology, packaging, testing, driver design and optical modules. With tremendous technology investment, JBD continues to innovate and rapidly grow into a benchmark enterprise in the rising display industry. Red MicroLED renews the brightness record with 750K nits! AlGaInP is the most mature semiconductor material for red LEDs. It is widely adopted in commerc...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE