Project description
Breakthrough nanowire-LED display technology coming soon
Micro light-emitting diode (LED) technology is a new type of LEDs for displays with higher brightness and resolution that can be used in a wide range of applications, including laptops, tablets, mobile phones and giant TV screens. It is a self-emitting display that consists of arrays of microscopic LEDs, each forming a pixel. With EU funding of the SPEED project, the France-based company Aledia is developing microLED display technology based on a unique 3D architecture. Aledia's technology uses millions of sub-micron diameter light-emitting gallium-nitride nanowires standing up from the silicon surface to obtain an improved area efficiency of light generation. The company has been developing LEDs that are manufactured on 200-mm-diameter wafers, scalable to 300-mm wafers and targeted at mobile display applications.
Objective
Aledia develops and manufactures a µLED (micro light-emitting diode) display technology based on a unique 3D architecture using gallium-nitride (GaN)-on-silicon nanowires (WireLED™). This technology can be applied in SmartPixels, where each µLED is directly controlled by a CMOS circuit for displays from the size of a smartphone to giant TVs.
Aledia has developed this technology on 200mm silicon wafers and plans to scale it up to 300mm silicon substrates, giving high manufacturing yield. The purpose will be to provide display designers and assemblers with a disruptive technology as it can remove the need for a TFT layer in displays. This unlock the possibility to design truly flexible displays, giant TV screens, or smart displays (haptic…).
For the first time ever, the display industry can be relocated in Europe if required since the SmartPixel will allow to bypass the Asian monopoly of the TFT layer. µLeds with a pitch of less than 10µm, each one independently controlled by its own control command, will be available as soon as 2024, thus overcoming best experts’ estimates.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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38130 Echirolles
France
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