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Microled screens, famous for their upper brightness, efficiency and useful life, have been promising for a long time to help advance the exhibition industry.
Folding phones have already revolutionized the smartphone industry, but making them older have long -standing problems, leaving companies in industries such as retail trade, medical care and automotive search for scalable solutions.
Now, however, Smartkem, leader in organic transistors of thin films (OTFT), is addressing these challenges through collaboration with AUO, the largest exhibition manufacturer in Taiwan, with companies with the aim of developing the first screen Transparent and transparent microled of the world.
Microled production with OTFT technology
Smartkem OTFT technology allows processing at temperatures as low as 80 ° C, significantly lower than the standard of the 300 ° C. industry C. Smartkem transistors can be manufactured directly at the top of the microleds, eliminating expensive processes and complex, such as mass transfer and laser welding, which have hindered scalability and affordability in microled manufacturing.
The company’s approach also presents a “chip-first” screen architecture, taking advantage of low-cost, flexible and transparent plastic substrates instead of rigid glass, which allows the production of dynamic visualization solutions such as roller signage on retail screens or light and transparent on transparent screens. Automotive panels.
This project began in January 2024 and received a subsidy of the Collaboration of Research and Development of Taiwán-Rio Unido, funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan and Innovate UK. The development will use the ITRI GEN 2.5 assembly line, underlining Smartkem and AUO’s advanced capabilities in the production of next -generation screens.
“We believe that the collaboration with the leader of the Global Auo exhibition industry to develop a new Microled screen puts the smartkem technology on the border of the commercialization of Microled exhibitions,” said Ian Jenks, president and CEO of Smartkem.
“It is expected that our unique transistor technology will allow exhibition manufacturers efficiently to efficiently produce microleden screens, which causes mass production high -end of $ 100,000 to mass market prices. “
