Micro LEDs open new growth windows for Chinese TV firms

Micro light-emitting diodes (LEDs), an emerging flat-panel display technology with immense growth potential, are expected to be applied in a range of fields, such as large-sized display products, wearables, augmented reality, virtual reality, optical sensors and fingerprint recognition, industry experts said.

Micro LEDs are based on tiny LEDs that are used to directly create color pixels. Compared with traditional liquid crystal display (LCD) technology, micro LED displays offer much better image quality and are highly efficient. Moreover, it promises to be brighter and more durable (longer lifetime) with a higher color gamut than organic light-emitting diodes (OLED).

According to LEDinside, a division of technology research firm TrendForce, the market value of micro LED products will reach $694 million by 2022. LEDinside expects that micro LED will be gradually applied to AR micro projections which require high brightness, automotive head-up display (HUD) projection applications and ultralarge digital display in the near future.