The Future Of MicroLED Displays Using Next-Generation Technologies (Wearable USA 2019)

This presentation will focus on Plessey's pioneering proprietary approach to enable manufacturing of monolithic microLED arrays using gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon (Si) technologies to develop better optimised AR/MR and wearable displays applications. It describes the problems associated with incumbent micro-display technologies which are prohibiting the advancement of new innovative technologies which microLEDs can help solve.

Wei-Sin received his B.Eng. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Sheffield in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He has over 15 years' experience in the compound semiconductor industry and has held various senior technical managerial roles in GaN on Silicon technology. He has authored over 50 publications and an inventor of over 20 patents. He is currently the Director of Product Development at Plessey Semiconductors.

Plessey is an award-winning provider of full-field emissive microLED displays that combine very high-density RGB pixel arrays with high-performance CMOS backplanes to produce very high-brightness, low-power and high-frame-rate image sources for head-mounted displays (HMDs), and augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems. Plessey operates leading-edge 150mm and 200mm wafer processing facilities to undertake design, test and assembly of LED products, and a comprehensive suite of photonic characterization and applications laboratories.