TrendForce Micro LEDforum 2020

 

 

Overview

Micro LED Forum 2020- Opportunities and Challenges of Innovation and Mass Production
The break out of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in tremendous impact to the industry chain of the global technology industry, affecting both the Micro LED technology that is still in the midst of R&D, as well as the Mini LED backlit technology that is on the verge of mass production. Hence, LEDinside hopes to take the opportunity of the online seminar of the Micro LED Forum 2020 to disclose the current technological progress for various manufacturers.

Review on the Innovative Technology of Micro LED
Numerous companies have decelerated the progress of mass production due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted manufacturers to invest in more prospective technological development. As observed by LEDinside, the pandemic has already induced many companies to implement Micro LED display technology. Based on this understanding, LEDinside wishes to review the progress in technological development for global Micro LED startups through this online seminar platform.

Research and Development Progress of Mini LED Backlight
Apple’s potential release of Mini LED backlit iPad at the end of this year remains to be the talk of the town for the industry, and the tech giant has not given up or deferred the mass production of such plan despite the stagnant exchanges in the industrial chains of Europe and Asia derived from the pandemic. Through this seminar LEDinside will be revealing the technological challenges, cost structure, and future outlook of Mini LED backlit products.

About Micro LEDforum 2020

Date

July 29, 2020 – October 30, 2020
(Taipei time, GMT+8)
Webinar available for viewing anytime
during the above dates.

Venue

On-line

Language

English / Chinese
(English and Chinese subtitles are available)

Agenda

Topic 01

Development Paths of Self Emissive Micro & Mini LED Displays

Roger Chu
Vice President of LEDinside / TrendForce

This presentation focuses on the developmental trend of self-emitting Micro and Mini LED displays. In this context, we will analyze the display industry from a macro perspective, which includes an examination of various Micro and Mini LED applications, such as consumer displays, automotive displays, and large-format commercial displays, among many others, as well as their technical challenges and future developments. We will also go into an in-depth discussion regarding all aspects of Micro LED process technology ranging from LED, mass transfer, inspection and repair, and backplanes.
Topic 02

Mini LED Backlight Display Commercialization and Challenge Analysis

Max Chen
Assistant Research Manager of LEDinside / TrendForce

Apple’s upcoming release of products featuring Mini LED backlighting has brought about an increase in Mini LED demand and incentivized related manufacturers to expand their production capacities. What’s more, with the 5-10 times growth in dimming zones of Mini LED backlights comes a considerable increase in manufacturing costs, so cost reduction is expected to become a hot topic in current supply chain discussions. The cost structure of Mini LED display backlights can be broken down into several parts: LED, SMT, LCD panels, driver IC, and light source, with the last two parts accounting for the bulk of the backlighting costs. As such, many manufacturers are currently looking into glass and PCB backplane solutions as Mini LED backlighting components, to achieve cost-reduction effectively.
Topic 03

Manufacturing Solutions for Mini and Micro LED Devices

Young Huang
Technology manager (PhD.) / Oxford Instruments

Mini and micro LED devices have clear benefits compared to other display technologies. However challenges remain in demonstrating high yield and low cost manufacturing for LED with die size below 10um. Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology has developed a portfolio of solutions to enable mini and microLED manufacturers. In this presentation, we review: - How can Oxford Instruments enable fast development for mini and microLED? - High quality atomic layer deposition for mini and micro LED. - High quality dry etching for mini and micro LED..
Topic 04

Enabling MicroLED Displays: Mass-Transfer Technology Brief

Ajay Jain
CTO / VerLASE

“AJ Jain, CTO of VerLASE Technologies LLC will expose a new Mass Transfer technology the company has been developing. The technology is based on a novel Photo-Mechanical- Actuation principle, wherein a novel transfer mask architecture along with proprietary chemistry is employed to deterministically manipulate and move large numbers of very small micro die quickly. The mask architecture addresses critical pain points experienced by general Mass Transfer methods, including: individual die addressability for repair / replacement, allowance of native R,G,B display architecture. Key components are being developed with existing hardware infrastructure in mind so as to minimize development time and cost.
Topic 05

New Paper-Thin, Ultra-Flexible Micro LED Display Technology Rewrites Rules for Display Form Factors

Dr. Julian Osinski, Ph.D.
VP of Product Technology / iBeam Materials

We will present a breakthrough technology for displays and other applications by means of growth and manufacture of microLEDs directly onto large area metal foil without die transfer. The metal foil provides a new paradigm in manufacturing of paper-thin, flexible displays that remain robust during use, especially for mobile and wearable device applications.
Topic 06

Micro-Solid Printing Technology Solving Limitations to Yield, Throughput, Cost, and Performance

Reza Chaji
CEO and founder / VueReal

Micro-Solid Printing Platform: A solution for yield and throughput of microLED displays.
Topic 07

Micro LED Display Technology Commercialization Progress

George, Zhaojun Liu
CEO / SiTan Technology Limited

In this talk, I will introduce several parts of fundamentals and development of Micro-LED displays, including material and devices, working principles, design and fabrication methods, driving schemes, mass transferring and monolithic integration, as well as realization of full colors. Commercialization efforts of our startup company, Shenzhen SiTan Technology Limited, will also be introduced.
Topic 08

Addressing Micro LED Challenges through MOCVD Technology Innovations

Drew Hanser
VP of Technology / Veeco

MicroLEDs development has been growing in the recent years and has the potential to disrupt the market over the current display technologies with its benefits once the various technological challenges have been resolved. Among these challenges, Epi quality, in particular good uniformity and low defectivity represents the first level of performance needed to enable the production of MicroLED chips and has a huge impact on downstream processes like transfer, packaging etc. Veeco is at forefront of micro-LED development in collaboration with leading device companies and research institutes, for both Blue/Green and Red LED. This talk will discuss the technology challenges and innovative MOCVD system’s capability to address the application challenges.
Topic 09

200 and 300 mm LED epiwafers: Enabling cost-competitive mass production of micro LED displays

Atsushi Nishikawa
CTO / ALLOS Semiconductors

While the industry’s display prototypes are impressively demonstrating that the product features enabled by micro LEDs provide real customer benefits, the question how high-yield and cost-competitive mass production can actually be achieved remains to be answered by the industry. Based on its proprietary and patented strain-engineering technologies, ALLOS’ 1 bin® LED epiwafer technologies can provide 200 mm and 300 mm GaN-on-Si micro LED epiwafers with best-in-industry wavelength uniformity values. This also enables the micro LED industry to utilize the high-yield and low-cost manufacturing excellence of silicon lines. Together with other breakthroughs — in for example mass transfer — we see that the foundations for micro LED mass production are becoming a reality and will deliver exciting new consumer and business applications.
Topic 10

Mass-transfer technology of mini- and micro-LEDs for display applications

Jae-Hyun Kim
Head of Applied Nano-Mechanics Department / KIMM

- Background of mini- and micro-LEDs - Mechanics of transfer process - R2P transfer of mini and micro-LEDs - Possible applications
Topic 11

Mini-LED Display by COB Technology

Dr. Poyo Sheng
Sales and Marketing Director / HCP Technology

1. Global LED Display Market review. 2. Mini-LED Technology in general. 3. Mass Transfer Technology by HCP. 4. HCP Technology company profile.

The Agenda is preliminary and subject to change without notice.

Speakers

Roger Chu

Vice President of LEDinside / TrendForce

Development Paths of Self Emissive Micro & Mini LED Displays

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.

Max Chen

Assistant Research Manager of LEDinside / TrendForce

Mini LED Backlight Display Commercialization and Challenge Analysis

Max is an industry expert with years of experience in designing TFT-LCD devices, developing manufacturing process for flip-chip PCB and improving the optical performance of LED backlight units.

Young Huang

Technology manager (PhD.) / Oxford Instruments

Manufacturing Solutions for Mini and Micro LED Devices

Dr. Chen Yang (Young) HUANG earned his PhD in Institute of Photonics Technologies from National Tsing Hua University in 2010. Dr. Chen Yang (Young) Huang joined Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology at 2011 and now is the Technology Manager who responsible for developing new application processes of micro-LED, III-V semi compound and GaN power semi. He has been involved in electronic and Optical-electronic development in Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) more than ten years of experience before joining Oxford Instruments.

Ajay Jain

CTO / VerLASE

Enabling MicroLED Displays: Mass-Transfer Technology Brief

Ajaykumar (“AJ”) Jain is a co-founder/CTO of VerLASE Technologies LLC, and named inventor of the Company’s principal technology. He had also cofounded and remains the CTO and a principal of Versatilis LLC, VerLASE’s parent Company, which had done various R+D work for agencies of the US Government, including DARPA, ARL, DOE and ONR. Previously, he founded TeraLūm, an optical components venture addressing telecom markets. He has 25 years thin film, semiconductor and fiber-optic experience, first with Omega Optical, then Reynard, and has consulted for a number of Companies in thin film optical coating technologies. A deeply experienced optical engineer, he is a prolific inventor with over 18 issued US patents, 2 in Japan, and 1 in Korea, with many more still in process. He is familiar with semiconductor processing, thin film devices in both electronic and optical domains, process and applications engineering, and engineering management. AJ is a graduate of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester.

Julian Osinski, Ph.D.

VP of Product Technology / iBeam Materials

New Paper-Thin, Ultra-Flexible Micro LED Display Technology Rewrites Rules for Display Form Factors

Julian Osinski received his PhD from the University of Southern California under the leading pioneer of MOCVD growth of III-V materials for lasers and LEDs. From there he joined SDL, Inc, now part of Lumentum, to develop and commercialize high-power semiconductor lasers. In 2001 he joined several startups in succession including Santur, Soraa, and Pacific Light Technologies in various senior roles to commercialize tunable laser, LED, and quantum dot technologies, respectively. Each of these companies have been acquired after becoming leaders in their product areas. In between these roles he continues to provide consulting services through his company Opticalogic Advisors, LLC. Since 2016 he has been with iBeam Materials, Inc. as VP of Product Technology.

Reza Chaji

CEO and founder / VueReal

Micro-Solid Printing Technology Solving Limitations to Yield, Throughput, Cost, and Performance

Reza Chaji is CEO and founder of VueReal Inc., a Waterloo based company developing the micro solid printing platform for integration of millions of <10um optoelectronic devices into any surface to enable enhanced electronic systems (e.g. displays, multi sensor surfaces, medical system, etc.).
He received his Ph.D. degree (2008) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, where he worked on design and implementation of large-area electronic systems for AMOLED displays, biomedical imagers, and bio-array sensors. His work led to development of over 200 patents that enabled large area AMOLED displays by enhancing performance and yield.
He has over 70 published papers and one book in the field of display and sensor, over 100 filed/granted patent applications, and received several prestigious scholarships and awards including Young Alumni Achievement Medal, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2012; CMC Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence 2009; and Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC Industrial Collaboration Award 2007.

George, Zhaojun Liu

CEO / SiTan Technology Limited

Micro LED Display Technology Commercialization Progress

Dr Zhaojun Liu is Co-founder & CEO of Shenzhen SiTan Technology Limited. Shenzhen SiTan Technology Limited was founded in 2018 by Dr. Zhaojun Liu, Dr. Chengfengqiu and Dr. Xiaowei Sun with support of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). The target of SiTan is to realize mass production of Micro-LEDs and overcome barrier of mass transfer technologies. SiTan has been collaborating with leading companies over the world. SiTan has built up a production line of Micro-LEDs. We offer customers the following products: high-ppi Micro-LED microdisplays, high power and high refresh rate driving backplanes, fine-pitch Micro-LED pixels (100µm down to sub-µm), interactive displays for vehicles, and Micro-LED spectrum measurement system. Total solutions of Tiled Micro-LED screen and high throughput mass transferring are also provided.

Drew Hanser

VP of Technology / Veeco

Addressing Micro LED Challenges through MOCVD Technology Innovations

Drew Hanser is the VP of Technology for Veeco’s MOCVD and MBE Product Lines. Veeco is a leading supplier of epitaxial process equipment for LEDs, mini- and microLEDs, laser and photonic applications, power electronics, and RF applications. Dr. Hanser has over 25 years of experience with semiconductor materials processing for electronic and photonics applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 publications and is co-inventor on eleven patents. Dr. Hanser received his B.S. degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He is a member of the board of directors for the International Conference on Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology.

Atsushi Nishikawa

CTO / ALLOS Semiconductors

200 and 300 mm LED epiwafers: Enabling cost-competitive mass production of micro LED displays

Dr. Atsushi Nishikawa is Chief Technology Officer of ALLOS Semiconductors, an international IP licensing and developing company for GaN-on-Si patents and technology. Nishikawa has more than 15 years’ experience in MOCVD growth of III-nitride. Prior to co-founding ALLOS he was head of epitaxy at GaN-on-Si pioneer AZZURRO Semiconductors and worked in GaN-related research at NTT labs and Osaka University. At ALLOS he continues to head the advancement of the technology as well as the transfer of ALLOS’ GaN-on-Si technology to its customers’ reactors.

Jae-Hyun Kim

Head of Applied Nano-Mechanics Department / KIMM

Mass-transfer technology of mini- and micro-LEDs for display applications

“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.

Dr. Poyo Sheng

Sales and Marketing Director / HCP Technology

Mini-LED Display by COB Technology

- Manage sales and marketing team to achieve and delivery of revenue performance.
- Development and implement foreign market sales strategy.
- Evaluate, design, and execute short to long term marketing and sales campaigns for mini-LED in display.
- Develop and engage in mini-LED backlight design-in.
- Optimize and manage mini-LED product portfolio in performance, pricing, and market positioning.
- Development and execution of strategic sales and marketing plans to achieve growth objectives.

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