- Roller displays could transform detail advertising strategies
- Transparent microles could improve dashboard screens
- Microled television prices could be reduced from the current tag of $ 100,000
Microleted displays, renowned for their brightness, efficiency and higher lifespan, have long been promising to help advance the display industry.
Foldable phones have already revolutionized the smartphones industry, but making them more important have problems, leaving companies in sectors such as retail, health care and automotive research for evolutionary solutions.
Now Smartkem, a leading organic transistors with thin film (OTFT), takes up these challenges thanks to the collaboration with Auo, the largest Taiwan display manufacturer, with companies aimed at developing the first transparent microleux display in the world .
Micro -real production with OTFT technology
Smartkem OTFT technology allows treatment at temperatures as low as 80 ° C – significantly lower than industry standard of 300 ° C. Smartkem transistors can be made directly above microles, eliminating expensive processes and complexes such as mass transfer and laser welding, which have hampered scalability and affordability in microleuse manufacturing.
The Company’s Approach ALSO Introduces A “Chip-STH” Display Architecture, Leveraging Low-Cost, Flexible, and Transparent Plastic Substrates Instread of Rigid Glass, Allowing the Production of Dynamic Display Solutions Such as Rollable Signage in Retail, or Lightweight, Transparent Displays Automotive dashboards.
This project began in January 2024 and received a subsidy from the research and development collaboration of Taiwan-Uk, funded by the Taiwan and Innovate UK Ministry of Economic Affairs. Development will use the ITRI Gen 2.5 mounting chain, highlighting the advanced capabilities of Smartkem and Auo to produce new generation displays.
“We believe that collaboration with the world leader in the AUO display industry to develop a new Microled display places Smartkem technology on the border of the marketing of micro-“, noted Ian Jenks, president And chief executive officer of Smartkem.
“Our single transistor technology should allow displays of displays to effectively produce micro-micro screens, making mass production commercially viable. Smartkem technology has the potential to pass the microled televisions today to high -end market price of $ 100,000 at mass market prices. “
