Home > Press > Aledia, French Developer of Next-Generation MicroLED Displays For High-Volume Consumer Markets, Announces it Has Produced its First Nanowire Chips on 300mm Silicon Wafers Using CEA-Leti Pilot Lines: Company will produce microLEDs on both 200mm and 300mm silicon wafers
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Aledia, a French startup pioneering a disruptive technology for microLED displays, today announced it has manufactured the worlds first microLED chips produced on 300mm (12) silicon wafers. The company, which developed its breakthrough technology on 200mm (8) silicon wafers over the past eight years, will produce the chips on both 200mm and 300mm wafers. The larger wafers provide better economic payoff and cost-effective integration with smaller-node electronics, which are only available on 300mm silicon wafers. Aledia was spun out of CEA-Leti, a French research institute pioneering micro- and nanotechnologies, in 2012, and the work on 300mm wafers has been performed by joint Aledia and CEA-Leti teams.
Aledia, French Developer of Next-Generation MicroLED Displays For High-Volume Consumer Markets, Announces it Has Produced its First Nanowire Chips on 300mm Silicon Wafers Using CEA-Leti Pilot Lines: Company will produce microLEDs on both 200mm and 300mm silicon wafers
Echirolles, France | Posted on December 15th, 2020
We believe producing microLEDs on large-area 300mm silicon wafers is a worlds first, and opens this technology to huge potential-volume-manufacturing capabilities, said Giorgio Anania, Aledia CEO and cofounder. The larger size allows 60-100 smartphone displays to be made on a single 300mm wafer, versus approximately four-to-six using the present LED industry-standard, 4 sapphire substrate. Thanks to Aledias unique nanowire LED technology (3D LED), this can be done with commercially available processes and equipment, since it uses standard-thickness (780µm) silicon wafers.
Traditional planar, 2D microLEDs are produced by depositing flat layers of gallium-nitride (GaN) crystal on sapphire wafers of 100-150mm diameter (4-6), with the majority of production today being on 100mm (4) wafers. Aledias microLED technology grows GaN nanowires (GaN crystals of sub-micron diameter) on top of large-area silicon (called 3D). This 3D nanowire technology does not create any of the stresses seen on 2D chips, which build up as the wafer size is increased, and so allows the use of very large-size wafers. In addition, this silicon-based technology allows production in conventional microelectronics fabs, called silicon foundries, which can be ramped up to high volume production with extremely high yield.
We are very pleased to have helped Aledia push forward the state of the art of 3D LED manufacturing using our 300mm silicon processing line. We believe large-area silicon wafers are the best manufacturing platform in the world today for displays, and give big advantages in manufacturability, said Emmanuel Sabonnadière, CEO of CEA-Leti. 3D nanowire micro-LEDs have the potential to make serious penetration into large display markets. CEA-Leti is very active today in supporting the display industrys transition to micro-LED technology.
We believe the use of large-area silicon wafers and microelectronics foundries are the only way to deliver the huge volumes demanded by end-user markets, Anania said. For example, if only the large-screen TVs of 60 in diagonal and larger transitioned to silicon nanowire technology to obtain better image quality and lower manufacturing costs, this would require 24 million 300mm wafers per year, volumes that can only be delivered by the silicon industry and supply chains. Smartphones, laptops and tablets would be on top of that.
Aledias technology is protected by 197 patent families, making Aledia the leading French startup company in France in filed patents.
This work is sponsored by the EC: Grant Agreement number: 954553 SPEED H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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About Aledia
Aledia develops and manufactures microLED displays and components to equip the $120 billion worldwide display market with next-generation technology. Its proprietary 3D microLED technology uses GaN nanowires on large-area silicon that emit light and can be used to manufacture state-of-the-art displays that deliver better performance at competitive prices compared to current OLED technologies. These improvements include longer battery life on mobile devices, better outdoor readability and faster refresh rates, as well as sharper colors. The company is targeting markets for smartphones, laptops and tablets, augmented reality displays and large TVs. Based in the Grenoble area in France, Aledia has 130 employees. It was spun out of CEA-Leti, the French microelectronics R&D institute, in 2012. Visit www.aledia.com/
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