As the display technology landscape evolves, traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) face stiff competition from emerging challengers. Among these contenders, MicroLED technology stands out as a game-changing advancement. MicroLED, short for "micro-light-emitting diode," offers a promising array of advantages over conventional LED and OLED displays. With individual light-emitting diodes smaller than 50 micrometers, these microscopic wonders bring unparalleled brightness, contrast ratios, color gamut, and energy efficiency. From large-screen TVs to augmented reality (AR) devices, MicroLED's ..read more

OLED is a flat panel display technology that has been developed for TV, computer monitors, smartphones, and tablets. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode, producing light by passing an electric current through a thin layer of organic material. This results in a high contrast ratio, wide viewing angles, and low power consumption compared to other display technologies like LCD. It is also lighter due to not needing a backlight, which is crucial in handheld devices. What is an OLED? OLEDs are thin, light, and can be built to be flexible. They are made of organic layers. The materials use ..read more

China’s Government just removed the strict Covid lockdown policies it has had in place for three years. Unfortunately, the abrupt change led to a dramatic increase in cases of Covid throughout the country. Estimates say that Covid will peak at about 400 million infected people, resulting in over a million deaths.  The effect on the supply chain has been dramatic and immediate. Many factories in China have seen spikes in Covid cases, reducing their workforce to a fraction of their full capacity. This happened during the peak production season right before the Chinese New Year. The Chinese ..read more

US Micro Products focuses on delivering Engineered Display Solutions for customers who often have products that live in harsh environments or require high performance.  Our customers want displays that make their end products easy to use and look good when they are new and for years to come. A new product often requires a lot of design and engineering resources which can cost valuable time and money. Display integration can be a large portion of those allocated resources, but that doesn't have to be the case. Working with our customer's engineering and industrial design teams from the ea ..read more

If you've ever left your LCD monitor on a single static screen for an extended period, say 24 hours or more, and then changed the on-screen image and seen a "ghost" of the previous screen, you've experienced Image Persistence. You can also sometimes see this phenomenon while traveling through an airport and seeing the flight status monitors. The good news is that the persistence is not permanent, unlike previous technologies such as plasma displays or CRTs.  The previous technologies of plasma displays and CRTs are phosphor-based, and extended static images create a "burn-in" that affect ..read more

To understand why we are having a prolonged shortage of integrated circuits, we need to understand something about the economic factors driving the semiconductor industry. Leading-edge semiconductor fabs cost billions of dollars to build and take time to develop and reach satisfactory yields. However, the large, complex chips from the leading edge fabs are sold in high volume and at high prices for servers, laptops, and phones.  The Semiconductor industry uses a metric of revenue/wafer as a metric to decide on investments and prioritize customers in times of capacity shortage. Larger dia ..read more

CES® is the most influential tech event in the world where the biggest names in technology showcase their innovations. A large number of the new products include displays, some of them using the newest and latest display technologies. Here are some that caught our eye: Mini LEDs Display technology is still heavily focused on TFT LCD and AMOLED technology; a new player emerged this year. Mini LED technology showed up in both consumer television applications as well as industrial and automotive. Both TFT LCDs with a traditional backlight and AMOLED displays cover most graphic display use-cases ..read more

In this webinar, Brian explains the basics of how Liquid Crystal Displays actually work. Ranging from the many layers involved in a display to how the current controls the liquid crystal molecules on each pixel to how the display drivers put the correct charge on each sub-pixel. He also discusses the different LCD technologies and semiconductor technologies used in today’s LCDs. US Micro Products can provide a solution designed specifically for your application. Send us an email at sales@usmicroproducts.com. Tags liquid crystal display LCD display industry US Micro Products industrial disp ..read more

Ultra-low-power displays consume very little energy, and the two primary technologies used for these types of displays are bistable and low refresh rate displays. They are used when there is a need for a battery-powered device, want maximum life between charges, and the content being displayed does not change very frequently. Table 1.0 is a comparison between bistable and low-refresh rate displays:         Bi-stable Low-Fresh Rate Steady-state power Advantage   Dynamic power   Advantage Speed   Advantage Temperature range   Advantage Co ..read more

The cover lens is the outer layer of glass that completes a display module. It has to look good as an integral part of your industrial design. It also has to be tough enough to survive whatever the environment throws at it, so your product continues to look good over years of service. In this webinar, we explore the many options available in the design of a cover lens, as well as how to test them to destruction to ensure they can survive “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” to quote Shakespeare. We explain the science behind heat tempering and other concepts so that you can make in ..read more