TrendForce Micro LEDforum 2021

 

 

Overview

Micro LEDforum 2021 – Innovation, Vision, and Foresight
Following a subdued 2020 on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of Micro and Mini LED technologies has ramped up again this year. The upcoming Micro LEDforum 2021 will reveal the latest developments in the manufacturing of Micro LED displays as well as in the application of Mini and Micro LED technologies. Significant progress has been made across the different sections of the supply chain for Micro LED displays (e.g., chip manufacturing, mass transfer, mass inspection, driver design, and backplane manufacturing). The same can also be said for the adoption of Micro and Mini LED technologies for new kinds of displays and niche lighting solutions (e.g., automotive lighting). TrendForce is honored to have invited several well-known experts in the Mini and Micro LED supply chain to share their views on the related technological advances and market trends during 2021.

Micro LED – Poised to Fulfill Its Huge Potential
LEDinside, a research unit under TrendForce, has observed that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have galvanized developers of Micro LED technologies to take on an even bolder and more forward-looking approach to R&D. At the same time, they are considering various aspects of product development such as mass production feasibility and product applicability. In light of these activities, Micro LEDforum 2021 will provide a wide-ranging exploration into the opportunities and challenges across the Micro LED supply chain. The presentations and discussions will revolve around application trends, with special focuses on large-sized displays (e.g., TVs and home theater displays), smartwatch displays, and automotive displays. Additionally, the event will delve into the prospect of Micro LED in some niche market segments such as smart automotive headlights and AR devices.

Mini LED – Starting to Take Off
The market attention on the usage of Mini LED solutions has mostly been on the latest iPads and laptop (notebook) computers that feature Mini LED backlight. Apart from these two device categories, TVs are also ready for the uptake of Mini LED solutions, and electronics brands such as Samsung, LG, TCL, Xiaomi, and Sony are all developing related products. Micro LEDforum 2021 will reveal insights on the penetration of Mini LED in different application segments (e.g., TVs, tablets, laptops, and displays). The related topics that the event will cover include product opportunities, technological challenges, and cost structure analysis. Taken together, the experts’ presentations will provide an understanding on the future prospect of Mini LED in face of the strong competitive pressure from OLED.

About Micro LEDforum 2021

Date

October 12, 2021 –December 10, 2021.
(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

2021 Next Generation Display Market Trend

Eric Chiou
Senior Research VP / TrendForce

The era of Mini LED backlight has arrived! In the presentation on Mini LED, TrendForce will be covering many aspects such as product specifications, product mix, intentions of electronics brands, and related technologies. The goal of the presentation is to prepare the audience in advance for the opportunities and challenges born out of the adoption of Mini LED for various applications.
The development of self-emitting Micro LED displays can be regarded as an endurance race! In the presentation on Micro LED, TrendForce will provide updates on the latest progress made in the related processing technologies such as chip production, mass transfer, backplane production, driver design, full-color rendering, etc. The presentation will also entail an analysis on the adoption of Micro LED in different application segments. The aim is twofold: (1) to impart insights on the different possible development paths for the technology and (2) to highlight the ways that the technology could penetrate into our daily lives.
Topic 02

The development of semiconductor equipment based on emerging applications of Mini/Micro LED

Xiangang Wang
General Manager of LED BD / NAURA Technology Group Co., Ltd

1.Development of LED industry
2.IC technology in Mini and Micro LED chip manufacturing applications
3.Product solutions for Mini and Micro LED
Topic 03

Development of MicroLED Display Technology and Applications

Dr. Yun-Li (Charles) Li
CEO / PlayNitride

MicroLED display is an emerging technology with high brightness, wide color gamut, high aperture ratio, and best reliability. In additional to traditional display applications, MicroLED display can be used for innovative display technology, such as transparent display, sports watch, automotive, and many new display scenarios. PlayNitride also demonstrated 89-inch 5K ultrawide curved display by proprietary PixeLED Matrix technology. MicroLED display can fulfill all display required features and will be a revolution of display industry.
Topic 04

Micro-LED Display: The Future Is Here

Steven Xie
Vice General Manager / Extremely PQ Display Technology Co., Ltd

As demand continues to grow in the display market, products are also constantly evolving in terms of form and performance. The changing needs and the desire for improvements are thus driving the development of Micro-LED displays. Micro-LED display products are expected to initially appear in the market segments for large-sized displays, automotive displays, and wearable displays. However, manufacturers still have to overcome numerous challenges such as epi-wafer production, mass transfer, system integration, etc. Efforts by academia and industry have brought hopes that breakthrough solutions will eventually be found and thereby lead to the commercialization of the Micro-LED display technology in the future.
Topic 05

Micro LED Display Technology and Applications

Ryan Hsieh
Technical General Director / Innolux

Topic 06

200mm micro-LED Production Solutions

Dustin Ho
Technical Program Director / Applied Materials, Inc

Micro-LED is the next inflection for display industry; more and more companies investing on this new technology toward volume manufacturing despite the global COVID-19 health crisis. All technology bricks required for micro-LED have been demonstrated. However, roadblocks remain including power efficiency, mass transfer and assembly, yield management, driving etc. In this presentation, we will present microLED outlook, volume manufacturing challenge, and LED die formation solutions.
Topic 07

Micro LED Technology Trend

Ray-Hua Hong
Chairperson, Department of Electric Engineering / National Yang Ming Chaio Tung University

There is a great improvement in the MicroLED technology. They contain the epilayer structure, processing, mass transferring, repairing and characteristic measurements. The technology trend will be introduced in this talk.
Topic 08

Monolithic full color micro LED display “Silicon Display” for near to eye display devices

Hiroaki Onuma
Associate manager / Sharp Fukuyama Laser CO., LTD.

Monolithic full color micro-LED display bonded onto silicon backplane, which we call “Silicon Display”, has been successfully demonstrated.
The 0.38-inch full-color Silicon Display consisting of 352 x 198 pixels has been developed. Each pixel is 24 um square composed of red, green, and blue (RGB) subpixels corresponding to a pixel density of 1053 ppi. We have also demonstrated the 0.13-inch full Silicon Display consisting of 352 x 198 pixels with pixel size of 8.4 um square corresponding to 3,000 ppi.
Each pixel is composed of red, green, and blue (RGB) subpixels and Quantum-dot materials are formed on III-nitride blue micro-LED array to convert blue light into red and green for full-color operation. Light shielding wall is the key technology to achieve full color preventing the optical cross-talk. We have confirmed that this microdisplay has wide color gamut exceeding over 100% of sRGB.
We believe our “Silicon Display” with combination of the monolithic micro LED and color converting approach is ideally suited for near-to-eye displays for augmented and mixed reality.
Topic 09

Advanced LED solution for high resolution headlamp

Chien-Shu Chiu
Marketing Manager / OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Taiwan) Ltd.

Topic 10

Branding Prospective- Micro LED & Mini LED Technology and Trend

Honglei Ji
Optical Systems Engineer / TCL

1.Mini LED – An Introduction via End Products 2.Latest Developments and Trends in Mini LED Technologies 3.Progress Made by TCL in Mini LED 4.Development Bottlenecks in Mini LED

The Agenda is preliminary and subject to change without notice.

Speakers

Eric Chiou

Senior Research Vice President / TrendForce

2021 Next Generation Display Market Trend

While previously working at the panel maker and TV brand, Eric Chiou directly participated in panel sales business and product design and is specialized in fields including upstream components, BLU modules, and touch applications. He offers analysis on the industry development from various perspectives with his people connection in the segment and professional knowledge regarding sales, technology, and supply chain management.

Xiangang Wang

General Manager of LED BD / NAURA Technology Group Co., Ltd

The development of semiconductor equipment based on emerging applications of Mini/Micro LED

Xiangang Wang, the general manager of LED industry business development department of Beijing NAURA Microelectronics Equipment Co.,Ltd., has been focusing on the development and sales of wafer fabrication process and high-end equipment in the LED and compound semiconductor industries for over ten years, committed to delivering new equipment and technology for the customers. Today, NAURA’s LED etching and thin film equipment have become the mainstream equipment and preferred choice in the LED industry, and its AlN process equipment has become the industry standard.

Dr. Yun-Li (Charles) Li

CEO / PlayNitride

Development of MicroLED Display Technology and Applications

Dr. Yun-Li Li is CEO and co-founder of PlayNitride, a company founded in 2014 that provides solutions of MicroLED display technology. Through the breakthrough innovations and diverse business models, PlayNitride has become a leading company of MicroLED technology
Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) with Prof. Fred Schubert in 2003. Dr. Li's Ph.D. work focused on gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting devices and solid state lighting applications.
In 2020, Dr. Li received Special Recognition Award from Society for Information Display (SID). It recognized Dr. Li and his team in development and commercialization of MicroLED technology. It also indicated that MicroLED has been identified as the new generation display technology and key development topic.

Steven Xie

Vice General Manager / Xiamen Extremely PQ Display Technology Co., Ltd

Micro-LED Display: The Future Is Here

Before joining Xiamen Extremely PQ Display Technology Co., Ltd. Mr.Xie worked as Director of New Display Technology Department at TCL Research. In recent years, Mr. Xie has been engaged in the R&D of OLED devices, quantum dot ink-jet printing mini LED / micro LED display. Mr. Xie has undertaken the R&D activities of several science and technology development projects from the government, and his achievements have won China Patent Award, Guangdong Science and Technology Award and other awards.

Ryan Hsieh

Technical General Director / Innolux

Micro LED Display Technology and Applications

Education：Master , Institute of Electronic Engineering, National TsingHua University (NTHU)
Experience：(1999~2015) 16yrs TFT-LCD technology and product development experience-Innolux Mobile Device Business Group Technology Platform Technical Group Director
(2015-2017) Executive Secretary of Innolux New Technology Development Committee
(2015-2021) 6yrs MicroLED display technology project leader - Technical Group Director of Innolux Technology Center
Awards/Honors/Patents/Publications：
More than 90 patents related to international display technology (including more than 30 patents related to MicroLED)

Dustin Ho

Technical Program Director / Applied Materials, Inc

200mm micro-LED Production Solutions

Dustin Ho is currently Technical Program Director for ICAPS and Fab Environmental Solutions group at Applied Materials, responsible for implementing innovative solutions for semiconductor process. He re-joined Applied in 2014. From 2011 -2014, he was Marketing Director and International Senior Expert focused on new market development at a major gas company. During his first decade at Applied, Dustin worked in Applied’s solar division; the dielectric DSM group, ESPD emission technology programs. Dustin Ho has published 20+ technical papers, has 32 patents, and has made numerous presentations at global industry conferences.

Ray-Hua Hong

Chairperson, Department of Electric Engineering / National Yang Ming Chaio Tung University

Micro LED Technology Trend

Ray-Hua Horng received the B.S., and Ph.D. degrees from National Cheng Kung University and National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, respectively, all in electrical engineering. She is currently Distinguished Professor with the Institute of Electronics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her main interests are solid-state lighting devices, III–V solar cells, optoelectronic devices, high power devices, and gas sensors.
Dr. Horng received numerous awards recognizing her work on high-brightness LEDs. She has been awarded by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan for Industry/ University Corporation Project in 2002, by the Ministry of Science & Technology of Taiwan for the excellent technology transfer of high-power LEDs in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 by Chi Mei Optoelectronics for the first prize of Chi Mei Award in 2008, by the 2007 IEEE Region 10 Academia-Industry Partnership Award and distinguish research award of National Science Council of Taiwan in 2013. Prof. Horng is the Fellows of the AIE, IET, SPIE, IEEE, OSA and IOP.

Hiroaki Onuma

Associate Manager / Sharp Fukuyama Laser CO., LTD.

Monolithic full color micro LED display “Silicon Display” for near to eye display devices

Dr. Hiroaki ONUMA is a Associate Manager at Development Division II, Laser Business Unit, Sharp Fukuyama Laser CO., LTD.
He received Ph.D. degree from Graduated School of Tohoku University in 2011. He had worked on relationship between electronic state and crystal structure of Eu2+-doped phosphor. He won IDW '06 Poster Paper Award and Merck Grand Award on IMID 2010 according to his research.
He joined Sharp Corporation and worked on the development of LED device.
Currently, he is in charge of the development of color conversion layer for full color micro LED display at Sharp Fukuyama Semiconductor CO., LTD and Sharp Fukuyama Laser Co., LTD. He won the IDW’19 and 20 Best Paper Award according to the micro LED works.

Chien-Shu Chiu

Marketing Manager / OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Taiwan) Ltd.

Advanced LED solution for high resolution headlamp

Honglei Ji

Optical Systems Engineer / TCL

Branding Prospective- Micro LED & Mini LED Technology and Trend

Dr Honglei Ji graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2002, received Master's degree in Material Physics and Chemistry from Changchun University of Technology in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Material Research from Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.
In 2007, began to research and develop LED backlight technology. In 2010, he joined TCL Multimedia Co., Ltd. and began to devote himself to the development and application of PL quantum dot backlight products in 2012. In 2015, he won the Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award.
Several articles and patents related to PL quantum dot diaphragms have been published.
Status:
Being the member of Technical Committee of SID Beijing Chapter in 2017,
the expert of IEC TC110 group
the technical member of China National Nano Standards Committee.
Head of State Key Science and Technology Projects.

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