Recent Micro-LED News - Page 2

Smart contact lenses develop XPANCEO announced a partnership with Contamac, a specialist manufacturer of ophthalmic materials, to advance AR contact lenses and their manufacturing process.

The company says that this new collaboration focuses on making lenses suitable for longer, more comfortable wear while preserving optical quality and enabling scalable manufacturing.

Hongshi Intelligent announced that is full-color XC6 microLED light engine powers the upcoming Skynea Skyeagle V1 Smart Glasses. Skynea, a brand owned by Shenzhen CDL Precision Technology, recently introduced the new AI Smart Glasses product, but did not share much details.

Hongshi's XC6 single-panel light engine utilizes the company's quantum-dots photoresist (QDPR) color-conversion technology.

MicroLED-Info's 2026 edition of The MicroLED Handbook, written by founder and editor-in-chief Ron Mertens, is meant to answer the questions that come up repeatedly around MicroLED - how the technology actually works, how it differs from other display technologies, who is working on it and how the market is developing - all in one place.

It starts with the fundamentals: MicroLED's device structure, production processes, and driving architectures, along with the manufacturing challenges the industry is working through. From there it moves into microdisplays and other product categories, and into the market itself, with a company directory covering major players such as Samsung, Sony, Apple, PlayNitride, AU Optronics and others, plus market analysis and forecasts. A comprehensive glossary ties the technical and market content together for quick reference.

Korea-based Global Technologies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ADST, a subsidiary of Sungho Electronics (that holds a 8.8% stake in Global Technologies), with an aim to collaborate on microLED process technologies.

According to the MOU, Global Technologies and ADST will cooperate on optimizing microLED production processes and equipment. GT will provide components for ADST, and the companies will jointly target the global markets with the new equipment systems.

MicroLED-Connect 2026 wrapped up last week, and it was our best event so far. Attendance was up more than 25% over last year. Thank you to everyone who attended, spoke, exhibited and sponsored!

MicroLED-Connect 2026: break time and networking

The event began with the annual MicroLED Industry Association dinner, where more than 70 people from across the industry got together for an evening of networking.

US-based Ingantec announced that it has managed to deposit 5-micron red InGaN microLEDs, that demonstrate a peak EQE of over 20% at 620nm. The devices were fabricated on conventional c-plane epitaxial structures.

Ingantec's CEO and co-founder, Alan Yeung, presented these results at our MicroLED-Connect event last week in Eindhoven, demonstrating red InGaN emission near 620-625 nm, with peak EQE occurring at 4-5 A/cm², the current density at which the devices reach their reddest emission. The devices subsequently maintain high single-digit efficiency (5-8% EQE) at elevated current densities spanning 40-140 A/cm².

A new project is launching on Kickstarter, to develop an AR scuba mask that features a build-in dive computer. The AREX ONE is powered by a monochrome VGA microLED display, providing up to 3,000 nits.

The AREX ONE has an expected price of $1,499 - although early bird supporters on Kickstarter will be able to buy it at $899.

The Fraunhofer IPMS, in collaboration with QubeDot, developed a blue microLED microdisplay. The display was demonstrated at MicroLED-ARVR-Connect 2026 in Eindhoven.

The blue monochrome display offers a WUXGA (1920x1200) resolution in a 1-inch panel, 120Hz refresh rate - and can achieve up to 10 million nits at 2 uW per pixel.

US-based Teradyne, provider of automated test equipment and MicroLED Association member, today launched a new production-ready optical test platform for microLED devices, the Iris 100. 

The company says that the new system brings semiconductor-grade optical test to microLED manufacturing, measuring every individual emitter in an array and integrating directly with the Teradyne UltraFLEXplus platform for combined optical and electrical test. The Iris 100 can be used for testing microLED microdisplays - and also microLED arrays used in optical interconnects.

According to reports from Taiwan, Intel has developed a new technology to enable more efficient embedding of microLED into glass substrates via novel through-glass vias (TGVs), with an am to achieve deep optoelectrical integration. The company is in talks with AUO to partner on advanced co-packaged optics (CPO, or microLED-based optical I/O).

It is reported that Intel sees AUO as an important ally, as it challenges TSMC's leadership in AI chip technologies. AUO has deep knowledge and experience in glass processing, required for Intel's CPO solutions.