OLED Microdisplays: learn more and find a supplier!

OLED microdisplay developer Seeya Technology is set to IPO soon at the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The company plans to raise 2.015 billion yuan (or around $281 million USD).

Seeya Technology was established in 2016, and is the first of the new OLED microdisplay companies in China that managed to achieve mass production of high-quality OLED microdisplays.

In early 2024, it was reported that Samsung Electronics is developing a new high-end VR headset (known as Project Moohan) and will integrate OLED microdisplays produced by Sony, similar to the 1.4" 4K displays that are used by Apple in its Vision Pro headset.

Fast forward to June 2025, and today there are reports in Korea suggesting that Samsung is progressing with its headset product, planning to ship around 100,000 units this year. The company is now looking into adding Samsung Display as a second supplier, to add another source of the same microdisplays to make sure it has enough supply if demand picks up.

OLED microdisplay developer BCDTek announced that it has raised 600 million Yuan (around $83.5 million USD) in its pre-Series A round. The company aims to finalize the round in the coming months, with plans to raise a total of 1 billion Yuan ($139 million USD).

BCDTek says that this round was led by Anshu Capital and CDF Capital, with participation from QCapital, the Zhenjiang State-Owned Assets Investment Company and others. In addition to the investment, the company also secured lines of credit from several China-based banks, to the total sum of 'hundreds of millions of Yuan'.

The AR and VR markets are heating up, with new designs and technologies entering the scene. Headset manufacturers are seeking next-generation OLED microdisplays that deliver brighter images, lower power consumption, and enhanced image performance.

Until a few years ago, only a handful of companies—primarily eMagin in the US, Sony in Japan, MicroOLED in France, and Olightek in China—were producing OLED microdisplays. Fast forward to today, and the landscape has changed dramatically: around 20 companies are now developing and manufacturing OLED microdisplays, with most of the newcomers based in China. The industry now offers a wide range of displays in various sizes and with diverse features. Most notably, increased production capacity has driven prices down significantly compared to just a few years ago.

For headset makers, staying informed about the industry is essential. Keeping up with the latest technologies, trends, OLED microdisplay manufacturers, their product catalogs, and roadmaps is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge.

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We would like to update you on the latest program announcements at the MicroLED Connect and AR/VR Connect events taking place onsite at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on 24 and 25 Sept.

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Samsung Display is showing several new displays and technologies at Displayweek 2025. First up we have Samsung's latest Sensor OLED display protype that allows for allows fingerprint recognition and cardiovascular health monitoring across the entire screen surface. 

To create this display, SDC integrated OPD directly during the OLED deposition process, embedding the sensors into the panel itself (what is sometimes referred to as a bi-directional OLED). Beyond fingerprints, it measures biometric data such as heart rate, blood pressure and stress levels. This technology is based on how OLED light reflects differently depending on the contraction and relaxation of blood vessels.

China-based OLED microdisplay developer Sidtek is starting to mass produce a high-end 1.35" 3552x3840 (3875 PPI) OLED microdisplay. The display offers a 90Hz refresh rate and up to 5,000 nits of brightness.

The first two products to utilize these new microdisplays have been announced - the Shiftall MeganX superlight 8K headset, and the Play For Dream MR headset.  It's great to see these next-generation OLED microdisplays entering production.

The Fraunhofer IPMS announced that it has developed an innovative high-voltage CMOS OLED microdisplay backplane that can support exceptionally bright microdisplays. The Fraunhofer IPMS will present a 0.62" SXGA (1280x1024) full-color microdisplay at Displayweek 2025 that will support brightness of up to 10,000 nits. 

The researchers explain that the high-voltage CMOS is needed as tandem-stack (or multi-stack) OLED devices are used to increase brightness. Multi-stack devices increase the voltage drop and swing across the OLED stack, and so require a high-voltage CMOS. The new Fraunhofer IPMS innovative pixel cell design that allow for a voltage swing of over 10 volts. Depending on the number of stacked units, multiples of the maximum emission can be achieved with high current efficiency while maintaining constant current density. This approach enables full color maximum brightness of over 10,000 nits while maintaining lifespan and reliability.

In 2024, Lumicore introduced a 0.71” 1920x1080 (FHD) full-color OLED microdisplay. The company has managed to further optimize this display, and it announced a new 2025 version of this display that achieved a 50% reduction in power consumption.

The new LMC071FHDC-A model achieves nominal brightness of 3000 nits, ANSI contrast ratio of over 650@3000 nits, over 92% uniformity, and enhanced color performance, providing richer details in low grayscale levels. The new display, with its lower power consumption, offers an ideal balance of high visibility and low heat generation, setting a new benchmark for its category.

The LMC071FHDC-A integrates video signal processing and pixel driving circuits, supports MIPI interface input, scanning direction switching, and image enhancement, making it the perfect choice for miniaturized, high-resolution near-eye display systems.

INT-Tech, a leading innovator in display technology, recently demonstrated a RGB OLED micro display with unprecedented brightness of 60,000 nits. This is a 5-fold increase from its previously announced brightness of 12,000 nits in 2022 and a significant leap forward from the current industrial level of about 10,000nits.

Most OLED micro displays currently used in XR devices are white OLEDs with color filters, often enhanced with a tandem OLED structure and micro-lens array (MLA) to boost brightness. INT adopted a completely different approach in the beginning and dedicated to developing RGB direct emission micro displays. The technology is named uNEEDXR, which stands for ultra-high pixel density for Near Eye Display for XR. By eliminating color filter, and continuous optimization in panel design and manufacturing process, INT successfully pushed the display to the unparalleled brightness level. The 60,000 nits display lighted on recently features a single junction OLED structure without an MLA, and is produced on a mass production line.

XR devices have extremely high requirement for display brightness because brightness is greatly diminished by the optical system. When paired with collimated lens, display at 60,000 nits has an output of 1 lumen, and the brightness reaching eyes through diffractive waveguide is about 900 nits assuming a Field of View (FOV) of 30°. XR device makers believe the desired brightness reaching eyes should be 1500 nits or higher for outdoor applications, which requires approximately 100,000 nits from the display. Looking ahead, INT is ambitiously targeting a brightness milestone of higher than 100,000 nits, aiming to push the boundaries of display performance even further.