The Global Mini- and Micro-LED Displays Market 2024-2034

1              REPORT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 19

2              EXECUTIVE SUMMARY   20

• 2.1          The Mini-LED market      20
• 2.2          The Micro-LED market   20
• 2.3          The global display market             22
  • 2.3.1      Display technologies assessment              24
• 2.4          Benefits of Mini- and Micro-LEDs               26
• 2.5          Mini- and Micro-LEDs applications            27
• 2.6          Market and technology challenges           30
• 2.7          Industry developments 2020-2023            32
• 2.8          Recent mini- & micro-LED display innovations     37
• 2.9          Market activity in China 41
• 2.10        Global shipment forecasts for Mini-LEDs and Micro-LEDs to 2034                42
  • 2.10.1    Mini-LEDs            42
    • 2.10.1.1                Units     42
    • 2.10.1.2                Revenues            44
  • 2.10.2    Micro-LEDs         44
    • 2.10.2.1                Units     44
    • 2.10.2.2                Revenues            47

3              TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS 48

• 3.1          Mini-LED (mLED) vs Micro-LED (µLED)     48
  • 3.1.1      Display configurations    48
• 3.2          Mini-LED displays             49
  • 3.2.1      Comparison to LCD and OLED      50
  • 3.2.2      Advantages and disadvantages  51
  • 3.2.3      Backplane types               52
  • 3.2.4      Costs     54
  • 3.2.5      High dynamic range Mini-LED displays    55
  • 3.2.6      Quantum dot films for Mini-LED displays               55
  • 3.2.7      Perovskite colour enhancement film in Mini-LEDs              56
  • 3.2.8      Market map       57
  • 3.2.9      Market adoption roadmap           57
• 3.3          Micro-LED displays          58
  • 3.3.1      Development    58
    • 3.3.1.1   Sony      58
  • 3.3.2      Types    59
  • 3.3.3      Production          60
    • 3.3.3.1   Integration         60
    • 3.3.3.2   Transfer technologies    62
  • 3.3.4      Comparison to LCD and OLED      65
  • 3.3.5      Micro-LED display specifications 66
  • 3.3.6      Advantages        67
    • 3.3.6.1   Transparency     68
    • 3.3.6.2   Borderless          69
    • 3.3.6.3   Flexibility             70
  • 3.3.7      Tiled microLED displays 70
  • 3.3.8      Costs     70
  • 3.3.9      Manufacturing  71
    • 3.3.9.1   Epitaxy and Chip Processing        71
      • 3.3.9.1.1               Uniformity          72
    • 3.3.9.2   Assembly Technologies 73
      • 3.3.9.2.1               Monolithic fabrication of micro displays 73
      • 3.3.9.2.2               Mass transfer    74
      • 3.3.9.2.3               Mass Transfer Processes               75
        • 3.3.9.2.3.1           Elastomer Stamp Transfer            77
        • 3.3.9.2.3.2           Roll-to-Roll or Roll-to-Panel Imprinting   78
        • 3.3.9.2.3.3           Laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT)     79
        • 3.3.9.2.3.4           Electrostatic Transfer     80
        • 3.3.9.2.3.5           Micro vacuum-based transfer    81
        • 3.3.9.2.3.6           Adhesive Stamp 81
        • 3.3.9.2.3.7           Fluidically Self-Assembled Transfer          81
    • 3.3.9.3   Full colour conversion    82
      • 3.3.9.3.1               Phosphor Colour Conversion LEDs             83
      • 3.3.9.3.2               Quantum dots colour conversion              84
  • 3.3.10    Market map       85
  • 3.3.11    Market adoption roadmap           85

4              THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR MINI- AND MICRO-LEDs           86

• 4.1          Consumer electronic display market        86
  • 4.1.1      Mini-LED Quantum Dot TV           88
  • 4.1.2      Products              89
• 4.2          Smartwatches and wearables     91
  • 4.2.1      Apple’s planned microLED smartwatch   92
  • 4.2.2      Samsung              92
• 4.3          Smartphones     93
• 4.4          Samsung              93
  • 4.4.1      Wall display        93
  • 4.4.2      Neo QLED TV range         94
  • 4.4.3      MicroLED CX TV line-up 95
• 4.5          LG           96
  • 4.5.1      LG mini QNED range       96
  • 4.5.2      MAGNIT Micro-LED TV   96
  • 4.5.3      Stretchable 12" microLED touch displays                97
• 4.6          TCL CSOT             98
  • 4.6.1      8 Series and 6 Series       98
  • 4.6.2      Micro-LED displays          99
• 4.7          Laptops, monitors and tablets    99
  • 4.7.1      Mini-LED              99
  • 4.7.2      Mini-LED and Micro-LED laptop, monitor and tablet products and prototypes       101

5              FLEXIBLE, STRETCHABLE AND FOLDABLE MICRO-LED        108

• 5.1          The global foldable display market           110
• 5.2          Foldable Micro-LED displays        110
• 5.3          Product developers        111

6              BIOTECH AND MEDICAL DISPLAYS             112

• 6.1          The global medical display market            112
• 6.2          Micro-LEDS         112
  • 6.2.1      Micro-LEDs for medical applications         112
    • 6.2.1.1   Implantable Devices       112
    • 6.2.1.2   Lab-on-a-Chip   113
    • 6.2.1.3   Endoscopy          113
    • 6.2.1.4   Surgical Displays               114
    • 6.2.1.5   Phototherapy    114
    • 6.2.1.6   Biosensing          115
• 6.3          Product developers        116

7              AUTOMOTIVE   117

• 7.1          Global automotive displays market          117
• 7.2          Mini-LED              118
  • 7.2.1      Dashboard Displays         118
  • 7.2.2      Head-Up Displays (HUDs)             119
  • 7.2.3      Digital Instrument Clusters          119
  • 7.2.4      Ambient Lighting              120
  • 7.2.5      Exterior Lighting                120
• 7.3          Micro-LEDs         121
  • 7.3.1      Head-up display (HUD)  123
  • 7.3.2      Headlamps         124
• 7.4          Product developers        125

8              VIRTUAL REALITY (VR), AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) AND MIXED REALITY (MR)        127

• 8.1          Global market for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)       127
• 8.2          Mini-LEDs            127
• 8.3          Micro-LEDs         128
  • 8.3.1      AR/VR Smart glasses and head-mounted displays (HMDs)              129
  • 8.3.2      Micro-LED contact lenses             129
  • 8.3.3      Products and prototypes              130

9              TRANSPARENT DISPLAYS              134

• 9.1          Global transparent displays market          134
• 9.2          Mini-LED and Micro-LED transparent displays applications             134
• 9.3          Product developers        137

10           SUPPLY CHAINS 139

• 10.1        Mini-LEDs            139
• 10.2        Micro-LEDs         140

11           COMPANY PROFILES       143 (92 company profiles)

12           REFERENCES       246

List of Tables

• Table 1. Announced Micro-LED fabs.        22
• Table 2. Summary of display technologies.            24
• Table 3. Mini- and Micro-LED applications.            27
• Table 4. Micro-LED applications. 28
• Table 5. Market and technology challenges for mini- and micro-LED.         30
• Table 6. Micro- and Micro-LED industry developments 2020-2023.             32
• Table 7. Mini- and micro-LED product announcements at CES 2021.           37
• Table 8. Mini- and micro-LED product announcements at CES 2022 and Display Week 2022.           38
• Table 9. Mini- and micro-LED product announcements at CES 2023 and Display Week 2023.           39
• Table 10. Mini- and micro-LED activity in China.  41
• Table 11. Mini-LEDs backlights global market 2020-2034, by market (Million units).            42
• Table 12. Global Micro-LED display market (thousands of units) 2020-2034.            44
• Table 13. Comparison between mini-LED and micro-LED.                49
• Table 14. Comparison between Mini-LED displays and other display types.             50
• Table 15. Advantages and disadvantages of Mini-LEDs.    51
• Table 16. Comparison of AM and PM driving.       52
• Table 17. Micro-LED backlight costs.        55
• Table 18. Comparison to conventional LEDs.         59
• Table 19. Types of Micro-LED.     59
• Table 20. Summary of monolithic integration, monolithic hybrid integration (flip-chip/wafer bonding), and mass transfer technologies.    61
• Table 21. Summary of different mass transfer technologies.         62
• Table 22. Micro-LED Comparison to LCD and OLED.           65
• Table 23. Schematic comparison to LCD and OLED.            66
• Table 24. Commercially available Micro-LED products and specifications. 66
• Table 25. Micro-LED-based display advantages and disadvantages.            68
• Table 26. Mass transfer methods, by company.  75
• Table 27. Comparison of various mass transfer technologies.       75
• Table 28. Comparison of LED TV technologies.    86
• Table 29. Mini-LED and Micro-LED TVs launched 2022-2023.          87
• Table 30. Mini-LED and Micro-LED TV products.  89
• Table 31. Samsung Neo QLED TV range. 95
• Table 32. LG mini QNED range    96
• Table 33.TCL range of Mini-LED TVs.        98
• Table 34. Mini-LED and Micro-LED laptop, monitor and tablet products and prototypes.  101
• Table 35. Flexible, stretchable and foldable Mini-LED and Micro-LED products.     111
• Table 36. Medical display Mini-LED and Micro-LED products.        116
• Table 37. Automotive display & backlight architectures   117
• Table 38. Applications of Micro-LED in automotive.          122
• Table 39. Automotive display Mini-LED and Micro-LED products. 125
• Table 40. Comparison of AR Display Light Engines.             128
• Table 41. Micro-LED based smart glass products.               130
• Table 42. Applications of Mini-LED and Micro-LED transparent displays.   134
• Table 43. Companies developing Micro-LED transparent displays.               137
• Table 44. Micro-LED supply chain.             140
• Table 45. LG mini QNED range    189
• Table 46. Samsung Neo QLED TV range. 217
• Table 47. San’an Mini and Micro LED Production annual target.   218
• Table 48. NPQDTM vs Traditional QD based Micro-LEDs. 220
• Table 49. TCL Mini-LED product range.    230
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List of Figures

• Figure 1.  Blue GaN Micro-LED arrays with 3um pixel pitch use polychromatic quantum dot integration to achieve full colour AR displays.          21
• Figure 2. The progress of display technology, from LCD to Micro-LED.       26
• Figure 3. Video wall.        27
• Figure 4. Automotive dashboard display.               27
• Figure 5. Public advertising displays.        28
• Figure 6. Wearable biomedical devices.  28
• Figure 7. Head-up displays (HUD).             29
• Figure 8. Pico-projectors.             29
• Figure 9. Mojo Vision's 300-mm GaN-on-silicon blue LED wafer for microLED displays.      40
• Figure 10. Global Mini-LED display gmarket 2020-2034, by market (Million units).               43
• Figure 11. Global Mini-LED display market 2020-2034, by market (Million USD).   44
• Figure 12. Global Micro-LED display market (thousands of units) 2020-2034.          46
• Figure 13. Global Micro-LED display market 2020-2034, by market (Million USD). 47
• Figure 14. Display system configurations.              49
• Figure 15. Schematic of LCD with Micro-LED backlight.     50
• Figure 16. Schematic for configuration of full colour Micro-LED display     51
• Figure 17. BOE glass-based backplane process.   53
• Figure 18. MSI curved quantum dot Mini-LED display.      56
• Figure 19. Nanolumi Chameleon® G Film in LED/LCD Monitor.      56
• Figure 20. Market map for Mini-LED displays.      57
• Figure 21. Market adoption roadmap for microLED displays.         58
• Figure 22. Micro-LED schematic. 58
• Figure 23. Pixels per inch roadmap of µ-LED displays from 2007 to 2019.  60
• Figure 24. Mass transfer for µLED chips. 62
• Figure 25. Schematic diagram of mass transfer technologies.       64
• Figure 26. Comparison of Micro-LED with other display technologies.       67
• Figure 27. Lextar 10.6 inch transparent Micro-LED display.             69
• Figure 28. Transition to borderless design.            69
• Figure 29. Schematics of a elastomer stamping, b electrostatic/electromagnetic transfer, c laser-assisted transfer and d fluid self-assembly.     77
• Figure 30. Schematics of Roll-based mass transfer.            79
• Figure 31. Schematic of laser-induced forward transfer technology.          80
• Figure 32. Schematic of fluid self-assembly technology.  82
• Figure 33. Schematic of colour conversion technology.    82
• Figure 34. Process flow of a full-colour micro display.       83
• Figure 35. Market map for Micro-LED displays.    85
• Figure 36. Market adoption roadmap for microLED displays.         85
• Figure 37. LG QNED Mini-LED TV.              88
• Figure 38. Micro-LED wearable display prototype.             91
• Figure 39. APHAEA Watch.           92
• Figure 40. Samsung Wall display system.               94
• Figure 41. Samsung Neo QLED 8K.             95
• Figure 42. Samsung Electronics 89-inch microLED TV.       96
• Figure 43. MAGNIT Micro-LED TV.             97
• Figure 44. Stretchable 12" microLED touch displays.         98
• Figure 45. AUO AmLED. 100
• Figure 46. laptop ROG Zephyrus Duo 16. 101
• Figure 47. Acer Predator X32 Mini-LED Gaming Monitor. 101
• Figure 48. Acer EI491CRG9 curved Mini-LED display.         102
• Figure 49. AOC 27-inch Mini LED-backlit gaming monitor AG2740GM.       102
• Figure 50. 12.9-inch iPad Pro.     103
• Figure 51. Apple Pro Display XDR.             103
• Figure 52. Asus ProArt PA32UCX.              103
• Figure 53. ROG Swift PG32UQXE.              104
• Figure 54. Lenovo ThinkVision Creator Extreme P27.         105
• Figure 55. Creator 17 gaming laptop.       106
• Figure 56. Samsung Odyssey G9 Neo gaming monitor.     107
• Figure 57. AU Optonics Flexible Micro-LED Display.            108
• Figure 58. Schematic of the TALT technique for wafer-level Micro-LED transferring.           109
• Figure 59. 55” flexible AM panel.               109
• Figure 60. Foldable 4K C SEED M1.            110
• Figure 61. Micro-LEDs for medical applications    115
• Figure 62. 2023 Cadillac Lyriq EV incorporating mini-LED display. 118
• Figure 63. Micro-LED automotive display.              121
• Figure 64. Issues in current commercial automotive HUD.              124
• Figure 65. Rear lamp utilizing flexible Micro-LEDs.             125
• Figure 66. Mojo Vision smart contact lens with an embedded Micro-LED display. 130
• Figure 67. Cellid AR glasses, Exploded version.    130
• Figure 68. Air Glass.        131
• Figure 69. Panasonic MeganeX. 131
• Figure 70. Thunderbird Smart Glasses Pioneer Edition.    132
• Figure 71. RayNeo X2.    132
• Figure 72. tooz technologies smart glasses.          133
• Figure 73. Vuzix Micro-LED micro display Smart Glasses. 133
• Figure 74. Leopard demo glasses by WaveOptics.              133
• Figure 75. Different transparent displays and transmittance limitations.   135
• Figure 76. 7.56" high transparency & frameless Micro-LED display.             136
• Figure 77. AUO's 13.5-inch transparent RGB microLED display.     136
• Figure 78. 17.3-inch transparent microLED AI display in a Taiwan Ferry.   137
• Figure 79. Supply Chain of Mini-LED Backlight.     139
• Figure 80. WireLED in 12” Silicon Wafer. 144
• Figure 81. Typical GaN-on-Si LED structure.          145
• Figure 82. 300 mm GaN-on-silicon epiwafer.       146
• Figure 83. Micro-LED chiplet architecture.             147
• Figure 84. Concept Apple Vr Ar Mixed Reality Headset.   148
• Figure 85. 1.39-inch full-circle Micro-LED display 149
• Figure 86. 9.4" flexible Micro-LED display.             150
• Figure 87. BOE Mini-LED display TV.         152
• Figure 88. BOE Mini-LED automotive display.       152
• Figure 89. Image obtained on a blue active-matrix WVGA (wide video graphics array) micro display.           154
• Figure 90. Fabrication of the 10-µm pixel pitch LED array on sapphire.      155
• Figure 91. A 200-mm wafer with CMOS active matrices for GaN 873 × 500-pixel micro display at 10-µm pitch.        155
• Figure 92. IntelliPix™ design for 0.26″ 1080p Micro-LED display.  157
• Figure 93. C Seed 165-inch M1 Micro-LED TV.      159
• Figure 94. N1 folding Micro-LED TV.         160
• Figure 95.  C Seed outdoor TV.   160
• Figure 96. Focally Universe AR glasses.   166
• Figure 97. Flexible Micro-LED.     175
• Figure 98. Jade Bird Display micro displays.           178
• Figure 99. JBD's 0.13-inch panel.               178
• Figure 100. 0.22” Monolithic full colour Micro-LED panel and inset shows a conceptual monolithic polychrome projector with a waveguide.       179
• Figure 101. Prototype Micro-LED display.               180
• Figure 102. APHAEA Micro-LED watch.    181
• Figure 103. Lextar 2021 micro LED and mini LED products.             187
• Figure 104. LSAB009 Micro-LED display. 189
• Figure 105. LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch TV. 190
• Figure 106. 12" 100 PPI full-color stretchable microLED display.   190
• Figure 107. Schematic of Micro Nitride chip architecture.               194
• Figure 108. Nationstar Mini LED IMD Package P0.5mm.   199
• Figure 109. 55” flexible AM panel.            202
• Figure 110. 9.4" flexible Micro-LED display.           203
• Figure 111. 7.56-inch transparent Micro LED display.        204
• Figure 112. PixeLED Matrix Modular Micro-LED Display in 132-inch.           204
• Figure 113. Dashboard - 11.6-inch 24:9 Automotive Micro-LED Display.    205
• Figure 114. Center Console - 9.38-inch Transparent Micro-LED Display.    205
• Figure 115. 48 x 36 Passive Matrix Micro-LED display.      207
• Figure 116. Micro-LED micro display based on a native red InGaN LED.     208
• Figure 117. Micro-LED stretchable display.            214
• Figure 118. The Wall.      216
• Figure 119. Samsung Neo QLED 8K.          217
• Figure 120. NPQD™ Technology for Micro-LEDs. 219
• Figure 121. Wicop technology.   222
• Figure 122.  B-Series and C-Series displays.           227
• Figure 123.  A micro-display with a stacked-RGB pixel array, where each pixel is an RGB-emitting stacked Micro-LED device (left). The micro-display showing a video of fireworks at night, demonstrating the full-colour capability (right). N.B. Areas around the display/   229
• Figure 124. TCL Mini-LED TV schematic. 230
• Figure 125. TCL 8K Mini-LED TV. 231
• Figure 126. The Cinema Wall Micro-LED display. 231
• Figure 127. Photo-polymer mass transfer process.            233
• Figure 128. 7.56” Transparent Display.    234
• Figure 129. 7.56" Flexible Micro-LED.       235
• Figure 130. 5.04" seamless splicing Micro LED.    235
• Figure 131. 7.56" Transparent Micro LED.              236
• Figure 132. UMini0.9 4K.               237
• Figure 133. VueReal Flipchip Micro-LED (30x15 um2).      241
• Figure 134. Vuzix uLED display engine.    242
• Figure 135. Mi TV Master series.               244

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