MicroLED is a self-emitting display consisting of arrays of microscopic LEDs each forming a pixel. MicroLED commercial activity is picking up considerably. Apple has plans to invest>$2 billion establishing smartwatch display production with 8" MicroLED chip fab at ams-Osram. Epistar and AUO are building a 6" MicroLED foundry leveraging PlayNitride technology. AUO will also begin production of a smart watch display 1.39" in Q4 23. Jade Bird Display has commenced it's production line in Hefei, with the total capacity of 120 million 0.13" MicroLED panels. Several other companies have also set up pilot lines for production. and Samsung is planning to increase manufacturing of microLED TV in 2023. Companies including Raysolve, Hon Hai (Foxconn) and Mojo Vision have recently announced breakthroughs using quantum dots in micro-LED displays.
“The Global Market for MicroLED Displays 2024-2034” is an in-depth 330+ page market report providing a comprehensive analysis of emerging Micro-LED display technologies and markets. It evaluates the current status and future outlook for these next-generation LED displays across applications in consumer electronics, automotive, augmented reality, transparent displays, digital signage, and more.
The report profiles over 80 leading companies developing MicroLED products including display manufacturers, LED chip/emitter companies, equipment suppliers and start-ups. It assesses their technology capabilities, product roadmaps, partnerships, and competitive positioning. Detailed technical analysis is provided on MicroLED manufacturing processes such as epitaxial growth, mass transfer techniques, assembly and interconnect technologies. The report compares performance metrics of Micro-LED displays including benefits/drawbacks versus LCD and OLED displays.
In-depth market analysis is provided on adoption trends, drivers and challenges across key industry verticals. Quantitative 10+ year market forecasts are included for MicroLED display shipments and revenues globally and segmented by product categories, regions and application markets. Overall this report is the most comprehensive source of strategic analysis on the MicroLED display technologies and associated market opportunities through 2034. It is a vital reference for display industry participants, investors, electronics OEMs, and technology companies seeking an in-depth understanding of these emerging displays.
Report contents include:
- Technology Introductions to MicroLED Displays
- Comparative Analysis of Mini-LED vs Micro-LED
- Manufacturing Processes for MicroLED Displays
- Chip Fabrication, Epitaxial Growth, Wafer Production
- Assembly, Hybrid Integration, Mass Transfer Techniques
- Defect Management, Repair and Optimization
- Colour Conversion Technologies for MicroLED
- Analysis of MicroLED Performance Metrics
- Assessment of Benefits and Drawbacks vs LCD and OLED
- Emerging Innovations: Flexible, Transparent, 3D Displays
- Adoption Roadmaps and Market Opportunities by Application:
- Consumer Electronics, Automotive Displays, Signage
- AR/VR Devices, Transparent Displays, Lighting, Medical
- Supply Chain Ecosystems for MicroLED Displays
- Company Profiles of 80+ MicroLED Developers. Companies profiled include AUO, eLux, Innolux, Jade Bird Display, LG Display, Mikro Mesa, Mojo Vision, PlayNitride, Porotech, Raysolve Technology, Q-Pixel, Samsung Electronics, Sitan Semiconductor International Co. Ltd., Tianma, and Sony.
- 10-Year Market Forecasts for MicroLED Display Shipments and Revenues
- Analysis of Market Drivers, Trends, and Technology Challenges
- Regional Markets: North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, ROW
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. REPORT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 2.1. The MiniLED market
- 2.2. The MicroLED market
- 2.3. The global display market
- 2.3.1. OLEDs
- 2.3.2. Quantum dots
- 2.3.3. Display technologies assessment
- 2.4. Benefits of MicroLEDs
- 2.5. Additive manufacturing for microLED micro-displays
- 2.6. MicroLEDs applications
- 2.7. Market and technology challenges
- 2.8. Industry developments 2020-2023
- 2.9. Recent microLED display innovations
- 2.10. Market activity in China
- 2.11. Global shipment forecasts for MicroLEDs to 2034
- 2.11.1. Units
- 2.11.2. Revenues
3. TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION
- 3.1. What are MicroLEDs?
- 3.2. MiniLED (mLED) vs MicroLED (µLED)
- 3.2.1. Display configurations
- 3.2.2. Development
- 3.2.3. Types
- 3.2.4. Production
- 3.2.4.1. Integration
- 3.2.4.2. Transfer technologies
- 3.2.5. Comparison to LCD, OLED AND QD
- 3.2.6. MicroLED display specifications
- 3.2.7. Advantages
- 3.2.7.1. Transparency
- 3.2.7.2. Borderless
- 3.2.7.3. Flexibility
- 3.2.8. Tiled microLED displays
- 3.2.9. Costs
- 3.2.9.1. Relationship between microLED cost and die size
4. MANUFACTURING
- 4.1. Epitaxy and Chip Processing
- 4.1.1. Materials
- 4.1.2. Substrates
- 4.1.3. Wafer patterning
- 4.1.4. Metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)
- 4.1.5. Epitaxial growth requirement
- 4.1.6. Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
- 4.1.7. Uniformity
- 4.2. Chip manufacturing
- 4.2.1. RGB microLED designs
- 4.2.2. Epi-film transfer
- 4.3. MicroLED Performances
- 4.3.1. Relationship between external quantum efficiency (EQE) and current density
- 4.3.2. Stability and thermal management
- 4.3.3. Size dependency
- 4.3.4. Surface recombination of carriers
- 4.3.5. Developing efficient high-performance RGB microLEDs
- 4.4. Transfer, Assembly and Integration Technologies
- 4.4.1. Monolithic integration
- 4.4.1.1. Overview
- 4.4.1.2. Companies
- 4.4.2. Heterogeneous Wafers
- 4.4.2.1. Array integration
- 4.4.2.2. Wafer bonding
- 4.4.2.3. Hybridization integration
- 4.4.2.4. Companies
- 4.4.3. Monolithic microLED arrays
- 4.4.4. GaN on Silicon
- 4.4.4.1. Overview
- 4.4.4.2. Types
- 4.4.4.2.1. GaN on sapphire
- 4.4.4.3. Challenges
- 4.4.4.4. Companies
- 4.4.5. Mass transfer
- 4.4.5.1. Chiplet Mass Transfer
- 4.4.5.2. Elastomer Stamp Transfer (Fine pick and place)
- 4.4.5.2.1. Overview
- 4.4.5.2.2. Controlling kinetic adhesion forces
- 4.4.5.2.3. Pixel pitch
- 4.4.5.2.4. Micro-transfer printing
- 4.4.5.2.5. Capillary-assisted transfer printing
- 4.4.5.2.6. Electrostatic array
- 4.4.5.2.7. Companies
- 4.4.5.3. Roll-to-Roll or Roll-to-Panel Imprinting
- 4.4.5.4. Laser enabled transfer
- 4.4.5.4.1. Overview
- 4.4.5.4.1.1. Selective transfer by selective bonding-debonding
- 4.4.5.4.2. Companies
- 4.4.5.5. Electrostatic Transfer
- 4.4.5.6. Micro-transfer
- 4.4.5.6.1. Overview
- 4.4.5.6.2. Micro-Pick-and-Place Transfer
- 4.4.5.6.3. Photo-Polymer Mass Transfer
- 4.4.5.6.4. Companies
- 4.4.5.7. Micro vacuum-based transfer
- 4.4.5.8. Adhesive Stamp
- 4.4.5.9. Self-Assembly
- 4.4.5.9.1. Overview
- 4.4.5.9.2. Fluidically Self-Assembled (FSA) technology
- 4.4.5.9.3. Magnetically-assisted assembly
- 4.4.5.9.4. Photoelectrochemically driven fluidic-assembly
- 4.4.5.9.5. Electrophoretic fluidic-assembly
- 4.4.5.9.6. Surface energy fluidic-assembly
- 4.4.5.9.7. Shape-based self-assembly
- 4.4.5.9.8. Companies
- 4.4.5.10. All-In-One Transfer
- 4.4.5.10.1. Overview
- 4.4.5.10.2. Heterogeneous Wafers in All-in-One Integration
- 4.4.5.10.2.1. Optoelectronic Array Integration
- 4.4.5.10.2.2. Wafer Bonding Process and Hybridization
- 4.4.5.10.3. Companies
- 4.4.6. Nanowires
- 4.4.6.1. Overview
- 4.4.6.1.1. Nanowire Growth on Silicon
- 4.4.6.1.2. Native EL RGB nanowires
- 4.4.6.1.3. 3D Integration
- 4.4.7. Bonding and interconnection
- 4.4.7.1. Overview
- 4.4.7.2. Types of bonding
- 4.4.7.3. Microtube Interconnections
5. DEFECT MANAGEMENT
- 5.1. Overview
- 5.2. Defect types
- 5.3. Redundancy techniques
- 5.4. Repair
- 5.4.1. Techniques
- 5.4.2. Laser micro trimming
6. COLOUR CONVERSION
- 6.1. Comparison of technologies
- 6.2. Full colour conversion
- 6.3. UV LED
- 6.4. Colour filters
- 6.5. Stacked RGB MicroLEDs
- 6.6. Three panel microLED projectors
- 6.7. Phosphor Colour Conversion
- 6.7.1. Overview
- 6.7.1.1. Red-emitting phosphor materials
- 6.7.1.2. Thermal stability
- 6.7.1.3. Narrow-band green phosphors
- 6.7.1.4. High performance organic phosphors
- 6.7.2. Challenges
- 6.7.3. Companies
- 6.8. Quantum dots colour conversion
- 6.8.1. Mode of operation
- 6.8.2. Cadmium QDs
- 6.8.3. Cadmium-free QDs
- 6.8.4. Perovskite quantum dots
- 6.8.5. Graphene quantum dots
- 6.8.6. Phosphors and quantum dots
- 6.8.7. Quantum dots in microLED displays
- 6.8.7.1. Technology overview
- 6.8.7.2. QD-based display types
- 6.8.7.3. Quantum dot colour conversion (QDCC) technology for microLEDs
- 6.8.7.4. Efficiency drop and red shift in quantum dot emission for displays
- 6.8.7.5. High blue absorptive quantum dot materials for display
- 6.8.7.6. QD display pixel patterning techniques
- 6.8.7.6.1. Inkjet printing
- 6.8.7.6.2. Photoresists
- 6.8.7.6.3. Aerosol Jet Printing
- 6.8.8. Challenges
- 6.8.9. Companies
- 6.9. Quantum wells
- 6.10. Improving image quality
7. LIGHT MANAGEMENT
- 7.1. Overview
- 7.2. Light capture methods
- 7.3. Micro-catadioptric optical array
- 7.4. Additive manufacturing (AM) for engineered directional emission profiles
8. BACKPLANES AND DRIVING
- 8.1. Overview
- 8.2. Technologies and materials
- 8.2.1. TFT materials
- 8.2.2. OLED Pixel Driving
- 8.2.3. TFT Backplane
- 8.2.4. Passive and active matrix addressing
- 8.2.4.1. Passive Matrix Addressing
- 8.2.4.2. Passive Driving Structure
- 8.2.4.3. Active Matrix Addressing
- 8.2.4.4. Pulse width modulation (PWM)
- 8.2.4.5. Driving voltage considerations for microLEDs
- 8.2.5. RGB Driving Schemes for MicroLED Displays
- 8.2.6. Active Matrix MicroLED Displays with LTPS Backplanes
9. CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DISPLAYS
- 9.1. Market map
- 9.2. Market adoption roadmap
- 9.3. Large flat panel displays and TVs
- 9.3.1. Samsung
- 9.3.1.1. Wall display
- 9.3.1.2. Neo QLED TV range
- 9.3.1.3. MicroLED CX TV line-up
- 9.3.2. LG
- 9.3.2.1. MAGNIT MicroLED TV
- 9.3.3. TCL CSOT
- 9.4. Smartwatches and wearables
- 9.4.1. Apple's planned microLED smartwatch
- 9.4.2. Samsung
- 9.5. Smartphones
- 9.6. Laptops, monitors and tablets
- 9.7. Foldable and stretchable displays
- 9.7.1. The global foldable display market
- 9.7.2. Applications
- 9.7.2.1. Foldable TVs
- 9.7.2.2. Stretchable 12" microLED touch displays
- 9.7.2.3. Product developers
10. BIOTECH AND MEDICAL
- 10.1. The global medical display market
- 10.2. Applications
- 10.2.1. Implantable Devices
- 10.2.2. Lab-on-a-Chip
- 10.2.3. Endoscopy
- 10.2.4. Surgical Displays
- 10.2.5. Phototherapy
- 10.2.6. Biosensing
- 10.2.7. Brain Machine Interfaces
- 10.3. Product developers
11. AUTOMOTIVE
- 11.1. Global automotive displays market
- 11.2. Applications
- 11.2.1. Cabin Displays
- 11.2.2. Head-up displays (HUD)
- 11.2.3. Exterior Signaling and Lighting
- 11.3. Product developers
12. VIRTUAL REALITY (VR), AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) AND MIXED REALITY (MR)
- 12.1. Global market for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)
- 12.2. Applications
- 12.2.1. AR/VR Smart glasses and head-mounted displays (HMDs)
- 12.2.2. MicroLED contact lenses
- 12.3. Products developers
13. TRANSPARENT DISPLAYS
- 13.1. Global transparent displays market
- 13.2. Applications
- 13.2.1. Smart Windows
- 13.2.2. Display Glass Overlays
- 13.3. Product developers
14. SUPPLY CHAINS
15. COMPANY PROFILES (83 company profiles)
16. REFERENCES