June 2025

Saphlux launched its latest OLED microdisplay technology, its T3 Series. The company unveiled a 0.13" 320x240 (subpixel pitch of 4 micron) monolithic full-color microLED microdisplay, based on its proprietary NPQD (Nanopore Quantum Dot) technology. 

Saphlux says that the new display offers high luminous efficiency, compact size, and superior reliability, and is an improvement over its previous generation technology. In addition to the new display, Saphlux say that it is collaborating with Leyard to develop an AR glasses product based on the T1-0.13” monochrome display, with plans to release a new generation of AR glasses equipped with the T3-0.13” full-color display by the end of 2025.

We are happy to announce a new edition of our MicroLED Transfer Process Market Report, with all the latest information, new technologies and companies, and more. MicroLEDs are advancing quickly and the transfer process remains one of the key challenges, with several technologies and processes competing for different market segments.

Reading this report, you'll learn all about:

• All known microLED transfer processes
• The current industry and market status
• Advantages and disadvantages of transfer technologies
• Future technologies and roadmaps

The report package also provides:

• An introduction to microLED production processes
• Over 25 presentations, brochures and technical papers
• MicroLED chip-level market estimates and forecasts
• Free updates for a year

This microLED display transfer process report provides a comprehensive look into current and future LED transfer technologies processes used for the production of microLED displays. The report covers everything you need to know about the current status of the industry.

Smartphone designer Nothing says that its upcoming new smartphone, the Nothing Phone (3), will adopt a unique circular dot-matrix display on the back side. The company refers to this display as the Glyph Matrix, which will enable people to express themselves and it can also show "subtle notifications, visual cues, and interactive feedback".

Nothing says that this LED display is powered by microLED devices. From the images it seems as these LEDs are quite big and not in the microLED range, but we will hopefully learn more soon.

XTPL S.A. Announces Sale and Installation of Delta Printing System to the University of Massachusetts Lowell for Advanced Research at the Raytheon UMass Lowell Research Institute (RURI) and the Printed Electronics Research Collaborative (PERC)

Boston, MA, June 9, 2025 — XTPL S.A., a global leader in high-precision additive manufacturing technology, is pleased to announce the sale and successful installation of its Delta Printing System (DPS) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The system will support advanced research at the university’s Raytheon UMass Lowell Research Institute (RURI) and the Printed Electronics Research Collaborative (PERC).

The XTPL DPS, renowned for its submicron precision and versatility, will play a critical role in developing next-generation printed electronics, sensors, and functional materials. The collaboration strengthens XTPL’s presence in the U.S. research ecosystem and highlights the growing demand for innovative fabrication tools.

China-based Yicai Core Light (also known as Yicai Xinguang Technology) says that it is preparing to start producing its microLED microdisplays in the autumn of 2025, in a pilot production line that will be build with help from Ningbo-based Yongjiang Laboratory.

Yicai's microLED platform is based on blue microLEDs and QD color conversion. Interestingly, the company uses perovskite-based quantum dots, saying that these cadmium-free QDs deliver increased performance. Yicai is partnering with application developers including both TCL and Meizu.

MicroLED technologies developer X Display Company (XDC) announced that it has developed the world's fastest display based on its microLED platform, with a data rate of a million frames per second. 

XDC says that such a display could lay the foundation for next-generation free-space optical wireless communication systems. The basic idea is to pair a display such as this with a camera setup to create a cable-free, reconfigurable and energy-efficient display-camera communication link.

Researchers from China's Tianjin University has developed a high throughput and non-destructive EL measurement method for microLED chips. The researchers say that this new method is not only non-destructive, it also extends the lifetime of the probe significantly (to over a million contact cycles) compared to other methods.

The new method is based on a flexible three-dimensional probe array that is capable of adapting to the microscopic contours of micro-LED wafers. The total pressure applied on the LEDs is only 0.9 megapascals (said to be comparable to a gentle breath). The probe head has 32 × 32 pairs of probes that can simultaneously measure 1,024 microscale LEDs using a passive-matrix driving approach in half a second. 

During CES 2025, Samsung Electronics demonstrated a 98-inch 8K microLED-backlit LCD TV, branding it as RGB MicroLED TV. This is not a true microLED TV, as it is not emissive, but unlike other LED- and miniLED- backlit LCDs, this one uses smaller red, green and blue microLEDs. A few weeks ago Samsung announced plans to produce this TV commercially by the end of 2025.

According to a new report in Korea, Samsung is now ready to begin trial production of this new TV type. Apparently the company's production process has matured enough and it is progressing as planned.

The MicroLED Industry Association published a new white paper that provides a discussion on microLED device efficiency. It focuses on the LED device itself, and does not discuss the efficiency of backplanes, added layers or the complete display system. The main goal is to help those that seek to use microLED devices understand what kind of performance can be expected of the microLEDs. The open summary edition can be downloaded here.

MicroLED Industry Association members can access the full document, which includes an in-depth discussion into device and usage efficiency aspects, sidewall defects, LED design, EQE of standard and state-of-the-art LED devices, color conversion, and more.

Earlier this year, TCL launched its RayNeo X3 Pro, powered by full color microLED displays, and a few days ago we posted that these are now shipping for around $1,050 with subsidies. The X3 Pro has an ultra-compact 2,500 nits full-color microLED display engine, based on 3 monochrome microLED panels. 

We assumed that these microLEDs are produced by JBD, and the company indeed confirmed that today. JBD also revealed that this is the first time that its proprietary, system-level image-quality engine for waveguide AR glasses (branded as ARTCs-WG) has been fully integrated into an AR product.