2025-05-14

[News] Display Week 2025: Smartkem to Exhibit and Present MicroLED Smart Backlight Demonstration for Next Generation LCD Displays in Automotive Industry

Smartkem, which is seeking to change the world of electronics with a new class of transistor technology, will be exhibiting at Display Week 2025 a demonstration of a MicroLED Smart Backlight that has the potential to drive a new generation of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) that could transform display technology in the automotive industry. Smartkem's Chairman and CEO Ian Jenks will be giving a presentation titled "Changing the World of Electronics: Unveiling a Breakthrough in Transistor Technology for the Future of MicroLED Displays" whic...
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2025-01-21

[News] SmartKem Completes First Sale of Its TRUFLEX® Semiconductor Materials to Chip Foundation Under Their Co-Development Agreement

Smartkem, which is seeking to change the world of electronics using its disruptive organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), announced that it has completed the first sale of its TRUFLEX® semiconductor materials to its joint development partner, Shanghai Chip Foundation Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. ("Chip Foundation"), a manufacturer of semiconductor and integrated circuit devices, for use by Chip Foundation in the co-development of a new generation of microLED-based backlight technology for Liquid Crystal Displays. Smartkem Chairman and CE...
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2024-11-27

Smartkem and AUO Partner to Develop a New Generation of Rollable, Transparent MicroLED Displays

MANCHESTER, England, Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Smartkem (NASDAQ: SMTK), positioned to power the next generation of displays using its disruptive organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), has partnered with AUO, the largest display manufacturer in Taiwan, to jointly develop the world's first advanced rollable, transparent microLED display using Smartkem's technology. "We believe that collaborating with global display industry leader AUO to develop a novel microLED display puts Smartkem's technology on the frontier of microL...
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2024-09-11

Smartkem Announces Joint Development Agreement with Chip Foundation to Co-Develop a New Generation of MicroLED-Based Backlight Technology for Liquid Crystal Displays

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Smartkem (Nasdaq: SMTK), a company that has the potential to power the next generation of displays using its disruptive organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), today announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Shanghai Chip Foundation Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. ("Chip Foundation"), a manufacturer of semiconductor and integrated circuit devices, to co-develop a new generation of microLED-based backlight technology for Liquid Crystal Displays. The joint dev...
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2024-05-24

Smartkem debuts first microLED display demo at Display Week 2024

Smartkem, a company that makes semiconductor polymer transistors, has just debuted its first demo of a microLED display using its proprietary OTFT materials at Display Week 2024 in San Jose. Evident from the exhibitors at Display Week 2024 is that they recognise the inherent advantages and inevitability of microLED display mass adoption – high durability, extremely strong brightness, a de-coupled production process and high aperture ratio – all of which Smartkem’s OTFT technology can deliver at a much lower cost due to its low temperature processin...
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The number of modern applications using 3D sensor technologies is steadily increasing, including ambient sensing for industrial robots, various face recognition applications, object detection, and machine vision. Vertical Cavity Surface Emitti... READ MORE

Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, is pleased to announce that a UV-C LED disinfection device manufactured by Mutoh Industries Ltd., equipped with Nichia's high-power 28... READ MORE