Micro LEDforum 2018

 

 

Overview

With Micro LED entering different applications, LEDinside this year has invited industry experts in Taiwan and from around the world to dissect the development of the technology and its major bottlenecks.

Starting from epi-wafer and chip manufacturing, solutions will be presented from the angles of chip fabrication solutions and equipment technologies. Then, industry representatives from eLux, Uniqarta, QMAT, KIMM, and other organizations will be discussing their respective methods for mass transfer. Following that, Nitride Semiconductors and Topcon will respectively unveil a full color conversion technology based on micro UV LED chips and an inspection process for verifying colors and brightness of Micro LEDs. Additionally, Macroblock will be introducing its latest driver IC designs for Micro LED displays.

LEDinside pioneered in hosting Micro LEDforum, the world's first inter-industry conference on Micro LED technology. It is an annual event for LED giants, startups and investors in Micro LED industry. Particularly, this years’ forum will share more insights on overcoming technical challenges in Micro LED display manufacturing.

About Micro LEDforum 2018

Date

July 12th, 2018

Time

10:00 ~ 17:00
(Check-in: begin at 9:00 am)

Venue

Room 201, National Taiwan University Hospital International Convention Center.
(No. 2, Xuzhou Road, Zhongzheng District 100, Taipei City)

Language

Chinese / English
(Simultaneous Interpretation will be available)

Agenda

10:00-10:30

LEDinside: 2018 Micro LED Next Generation Display Industry Trend

Roger Chu
Research Director of LEDinside / TrendForce

10:30-11:00

Full Color Fluorescence Patterns Excited by UV-LED Micro Chip

Yoshihiko Muramoto
President & CEO / Nitride Semiconductors

Koichi Kajiyama
Executive Director / V-technology

The micro-LED display is one of candidate of next generation display panel, but it is a tough challenge. We propose a solution which is excited by near Ultraviolet LED. The RGB full color element which is exited by near UV-LED can gain excellent color combination because there are many RGB phosphors suitable for near UV region. Furthermore its control circuit is easier compared with the integrated monolithic RGB LED method. In order to make a real flexible micro LED display, we need to develop 4 processes such as micro LED chip, color conversion technology, Laser Lift off and reconstitution from sapphire to back plane, mainly. The micro LED chip will be introduced by Mr.Muramoto of Nitride Semiconductor Co.,Ltd in this session. Due to the low emission efficiency of R, G micro LED Chips, a patterning technology of fluorescence resists have been developed. V-technology have developed R, G, B resists which consist of inorganic fluorescence materials to keep long life time. These materials in the small cells are arrayed on the PI Film. The minimum size of the cell is 10×30 μm. An apparatus of LLO has been developed and is used to determine the optimum condition of LLO for micro LED chips. As for the reconstitution process, we are developing a new technology without using adhesive tape transfer.
11:00-11:30

Latest Lumimance Intensity and Color Inspection for Micro LED

Kazuto Nishikawa
Manager / Topcon

To satisfy demand for color gamut and contrast expanding, μLED will become mainstream. But luminance and chromaticity uniformity and Mura are inevitable phenomenon. Our world first absolute 2D spectroradiometer SR-5000 is the perfect tool for Mura analysis and material development for μLED. Also SR-5000M is designed especially for sub-pixel inspection. This model with microscope enables to fulfill even 2μm level sub-pixel Mura analysis as micro spectroscopy. Speaking the tool detail with application on presentation.
11:30-12:00

Surface Defect Detection Program for Micro LED Industry

Edwin Chew
Regional Product Manager(Asia Region) / KLA- Tencor

KLA-Tencor will showcase it’s inspection solution for the MicroLED industry. This talk will deal with the wide range of defects expected to be seen as well as the 8720’s ability to detect micro level defects. This is critical because you cannot control what you cannot see.
12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-13:30

Practical Manufacture of Emissive Displays Using Fluidic Assembly

Paul Schuele
Founder and CTO / eLux, Inc.

Mass transfer of µLED is the key technology to enable µLED displays. Unlike conventional pick-and-place or direct bonding transfer, eLux focuses on the massively parallel assembly processes that enable low cost manufacturing of displays at arbitrary pixel pitch. Technical details of the fluidic assembly process will be presented.
13:30-14:00

Laser Enabled Advanced Placement (LEAP)

Ronn Kliger
CEO and Co-Founder / Uniqarta, Inc.

This presentation will introduce a novel method of placing microLEDs at rates exceeding 100 million units/hour. The solution is selective in that undesired microLEDs can be avoided and only desired ones placed. The presentation will describe the laser transfer mechanism and include examples of ultra-high speed miniLED and microLED transfer.
14:00-14:30

Analysis of Mass-Transfer Technology, LED Materials and Test Interactions to Realize High-Yield MicroLED Mass-Production

Francois J. Henley
President and CEO / QMAT, Inc.

Realizing the great promise of microLED displays requires cost-effective microLED mass-production. Four key areas spanning materials, process and production equipment are reviewed to understand their interactions and role in achieving high-yield MicroLED mass-production. The mass-transfer assembly step is of particular importance as the point where other key steps converge to form the emissive display array. Proposed mass-transfer technologies and approaches will be introduced and compared for their compatibility with requirements to achieve high-speed, cost-effective microLED mass-production. Unique microLED test challenges at the wafer level, compatible mass-transfer equipment capabilities will be discussed. The key elements of the four steps driving MicroLED assembly yield, uniformity, scalability and production throughput will also be presented.
14:30-15:00

Roll to Plate Transfer Technology For Emissive Displays

Jae-Hyun Kim, Ph.D.
Head of Nano-Mechanics Department / KIMM(Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials)

In this talk, manufacturing process of flexible inorganics electronics is overviewed, and the transfer process is highlighted as a key enabling technology. The basic mechanics of transfer is described, and a roll-to-plate transfer technology is introduced for high productivity. Some demonstrations realized by the roll-to-plate transfer are presented including flexible thin film transistor (TFT), flexible silicon memory, mini-LED signage, and stretchable micro-LED display.
15:00-15:20

Break

15:20-15:50

From HDR10 to Micro-LED Display

Kerry Huang
Manager of micro-LED Dept. / Macroblock

HDR10 standard makes picture more vivid. Micro-LED is a cutting edge technology in display. Will both of they bring us which kind of the experience in visual? When will we have the micro-LED display in the market? Macroblocks shares the current status of micro-LED display and how driver IC helps LED display meet HDR10.
15:50-16:20

Directed Self Assembly for Pixel Arrays

Dr. Clinton Ballinger
CEO / SelfArray

－Lean business development and how it relates to rapid commercialization of new technologies－Background and inspiration for diamagnetic directed self- assembly (DSA) to align electronic components in a massively parallel fashion－Benefits of DSA as it relates to direct view LED display manufacturing, including a discussion of limitations, features and benefits－The current issues facing the industry with respect to manufacturing methodologies using micro and quasi-micro LEDs－SelfArray research efforts and near-term milestones, industry-specific goals to guide the development－Performance goals for throughput, yield, LED size and pitch－Market and where DSA fits in the value chain－Future plans
16:20-16:50

Micro LED Technology in Non-Display Market Potentials

Joel Yue
Evangelist for micro LED / Jasper Display Corp.

1. Which non-display market fields do micro LED light sources fit into in modern society?2. What demands does non-display market to special light sources?3. What characteristics does micro LED exhibit?4. How can micro LED illustrate its special optoelectronic characteristics?5. How to plan better industrialization strategy for micro LED Technology to develop potential non-display market?

The Agenda is preliminary and subject to change without notice.

Speakers

Roger Chu

Research Director of LEDinside / TrendForce

LEDinside: 2018 Micro LED Next Generation Display Industry Trend

Roger Chu oversees the Green Energy Business Unit of TrendForce Corp., and specializes in market research on the LED industry, including end-product makers ranging from LED components, lighting, backlight to manufacturers. Additionally, he also handles the research on batteries in the Green Energy Business Unit. Mr.Chu once was an analyst at DRAMeXchange. He also worked for Hua Nan Securities as an analyst and Qunmao Management Consulting Company as a management trainee. His previous research scope covered DRAM, packaging and testing as well as other electronic industries.Mr.Chu graduated from the Graduate Institute of Finance, Chaoyang University of Technology

Yoshihiko Muramoto

President & CEO / Nitride Semiconductors

Full Color Fluorescence Patterns Excited by UV-LED Micro Chip

Mr. Muramoto has distributed UV-LED papers as following:
－48th Society for Information Display(SID) International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition invited paper “Application of UV-LED to LCD Backlights”
－Semiconductor, Science & Technology Vol.29 Number8 August2014
－Invited paper ”Development and Future of Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes ~UV-LED will replace UV Lamp~ which was selected as highlights of SST 2014

Koichi Kajiyama

Executive Director / V-Technology

Full Color Fluorescence Patterns Excited by UV-LED Micro Chip

－1974 Graduated from the Faculty of Science Department of Physics of Hokkaido University.
－－Joined Komatsu Co., LTD Research Center.
－－Development of Ecimer Laser for Semiconductor Exposure System.
－－Development of Nonliner Spectroscopy.
－1987 Established Admon Science Company.Development of Excimer Laser.
－－Development Automated Optical Inspection System for LCD and Optical Disk.
－2000 Director of V-Technology.

Kazuto Nishikawa

Sales Manager / Topcon

Latest Lumimance Intensity and Color Inspection for Micro LED

Mr. Nishikawa started to work in Topcon from 1981 in international sales dept.
Then in 1994 moved to work in Hong Kong as senior sales manager covering China and Hong Kong market to promote Topcon optical instrument.
After 7 years in Hong Kong and Shanghai, he moved back to Topcon in Tokyo to promote semiconductor inspection instrument, aligner for FPD and optical measuring instrument as sales manager.

Edwin Chew

Regional Product Manager(Asia Region) / KLA- Tencor

Surface defect Detection Program for Micro LED Industry

He has been in KLA-Tencor for 11 years dealing with Field Applications support for HDD and Compound Semi related Wafer customers in the candela group. During the 10 years, he been involved with the several candela inspection tool transitions to the 5th Generation today. Prior to that he was in the manufacturing sector for 5 years and hence am able to look at situations from both sides of the coin to drive suitable solutions for our customers. The Micro LED space is very exciting in many aspects today and we hope to grow our knowledge and be a part of this industry’s growth.

Paul Schuele

CTO / eLux, Inc.

Practical Manufacture of Emissive Displays Using Fluidic Assembly

Dr. Schuele has been the technical lead for µLED display development at Sharp Labs of America until 2016. In October 2016 he cofounded eLux to commercialize µLED technology and he is currently CTO and process integration lead at eLux. The current work is a collaboration with LED manufacturers, materials suppliers and display backplane manufacturers to make large area direct emitting displays.
He received a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Montana State University and has been a materials scientist and process integration engineer at Inmos, Ramtron, Micron and tsmc. He holds 64 US patents primarily in the fields of sensors, semiconductor processing and flat panel displays.

Ronn Kliger

Co-founder and CEO / Uniqarta

Laser Enabled Advanced Placement (LEAP)

Ronn is co-founder and CEO of Uniqarta. Throughout his career Ronn has focused on developing and commercializing new technologies. Previous to Uniqarta, he was at Analog Devices were he founded and led several successful new business units. Ronn has a BEE from Georgia Tech, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Francois J. Henley

President and CEO / QMAT

Analysis of Mass-Transfer Technology, LED Materials and Test Interactions to Realize High-Yield MicroLED Mass-Production

Francois J. Henley is President and CEO of QMAT, Inc., a developer of engineered substrate process technology for the optoelectronics and power electronics markets. Mr. Henley is also President and CEO of Tesoro Scientific, Inc., a developer of microLED test and mass-transfer equipment.
Prior to QMAT, Mr. Henley was the founder and President of Silicon Genesis Inc. (SiGen, an electronic substrate technology company). Mr. Henley was also the founder and President of Photon Dynamics, a leader in LCD flat-panel production test equipment using the Voltage Imaging method for TFT array test he invented.
Mr. Henley holds a BSEE from RPI and an MSEE from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also completed PhD course requirements in quantum electronics and semiconductor materials science.
Mr. Henley has authored over 30 papers and articles and is named in over 140 patents in the areas of metrology, SOI and opto-electronic processing.

Jae-Hyun Kim

Head of Applied Nano-Mechanics Department / Korea Institute of machinery and Materials (KIMM)

Roll to Plate Transfer Technology For Emissive Displays

“Jae-Hyun Kim”, Ph.D. has been a researcher at Korea Institute of machinery and Materials (KIMM) in the field of nano-mechanics and nano-mechanical systems since 2003. He has studied thin film mechanics of semiconductor and display materials, and has developed transfer machines for flexible semiconductor and display applications. ”Kim” received Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea.

Kerry Huang

Manager of micro-LED Dept. / Macroblock

From HDR10 to Micro-LED Display

Kerry Huang works in Macroblock Inc. as a manager of micro-LED Dept. He leads marketing and sales team to plan products and define go-to-market strategies. Kerry has 12-year experience in IC design industry, and 9-year experience in LED display industry and publishes several technical articles related to LED display and is invited to present paper presentation from COEMA LED Display Applications Branch. He has 9 invention patents in the US, China, and Taiwan, and MBA in National Taiwan University, and Master degree in National Tsing Hua University.

Dr. Clinton Ballinger

CEO / SelfArray

Directed Self Assembly for Pixel Arrays

Dr. Clinton Ballinger is one of the world’s leading authorities in nanotechnology and products enabled by novel semiconductor materials. He is a serial entrepreneur with a reputation for launching “world’s first” products across multiple markets, on time and under budget. Previous products include quantum dot LEDs now used by Samsung in QLED displays, cancer research bio-reagents, military night vision products and thermoelectric devices. He possesses a diverse background with demonstrated lean business acumen that includes founding and operating companies, creating, developing and launching new products, extensive capital raising experience, and global team development.

Joel Yue

Evangelist for micro LED / Jasper Display Corp.

Micro LED Technology in Non-Display Market Potential

Dr. C.F.J. Yue received his Ph. D. (1998) at University of Florida. He served as senior engineer in Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (2000, U.S.A.), assistant professor in Far East University (2010, white LED phosphor glass encapsulation, diffractive optical element design, solar thermal power generation system project), researchers in Institute of Optoelectronic Engineering (2013, graphene CVD and transparent electrode materials, interface engineering) then Medical School & Dentistry Professional College (2015, 3D printing of biomedical materials) of Taiwan University, and Taipei University of Technology (2017, Laser Melting Deposition additive manufacturing). He currently works as Evangelist for micro LED & LCOS-Spatial Light Modulator at Jasper Display Corporation (Taiwan office).

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