UK-based Optovate recently announced that it has developed a parallel aligned Micro-LED transfer process. Today the company revealed more details about its Micro-LED technology.

Optovate p-LLO transfer process

Since 2008, Optovate develops catadioptric micro-optic arrays to enhance the benefits of micro-LED, mini-LED and OLED displays. The company also developed a patterned laser lift-off (p-LLO) micro-LED transfer process.

China-based CVD and plasma etching equipment maker AMEC has signed an agreement with the Nanchang city government to setup an MOCVD R&D and production base.

The new R&D center will focus on MOCVD technologies for applications such as power devices and Micro-LEDs. In collaboration with Nanchang University, AMEC will develop and commercialize silicon-based LED technology. AMEC will start producing in the facility next month, and the facility will be expanded in 2019.

Digitimes posted an article on recent advances at Epistar, and according to the article Epistar has achieved a recent breakthrough in micro LED technology. Epistar will unveil the achievement in the second-half of 2018.

Last year Digitimes posted an interview with Epistar's president , Jou Ming-Jiunn, in which Jou says that the most optimistic scenario is for micro-LED displays to enter production by the end of 2018, with real devices appearing in 2019.