JBD a leading microLED display manufacturer, will release its JBD4UM480P microLED display series extending the AmµLED™ family in November this year. This series has a display area of 0.13” (3.3 mm) in diagonal and a resolution of 640X480, possibly making it the world’s smallest and brightest VGA display panel ever made.
Approaching the size of a grain of rice (Figure 1), the display panel can be easily designed into a smart glass due to its ultra-compact footprint. Small and extremely powerful, the panels deliver luminance of 0.2 M nits, 2 M nits, and 0.15M nits for red, green, and blue, respectively for a power consumption of only a few hundred milliwatts under average operation conditions.
The JBD4UM480P IC backplane includes multiple functions that allow the display chip to operate at low power consumption mode for static images or images that change slowly. There is no need for extra bridge ICs, and the display data can be transferred directly from customers’ application system over SPI/QSPI interface. The IC backplane has a frame buffer and can support both global shutter and rolling shutter modes. It can also support over 5000 steps of global luminance levels. The image enhancement functions, including brightness uniformity compensation and gamma correction are implemented with the built-in OTP memory.
The JBD4UM480P microLED display series are fabricated using JBD’s proprietary hybrid integration technologies. JBD’s hybrid integration process also incorporates pixel level optics (Pixel Optics™) for each individual pixel, to facilitate efficient coupling with optics. JBD has currently over 120 patents and trademarks on microLED display panel design and manufacturing technologies.
The JBD4UM480P series is available in monochrome red, blue, and green panels. With these monochrome panels, two types of polychrome solutions are available to customers, a polychrome module projector and as a set of individual monochrome projectors. In the polychrome module projector, a x-cube prism is used to combine images from three individual monochrome panels attached to the faces of the X-cube prism. The combined light emits from the fourth surface of the X-cube and is projected by a group of lenses, as illustrated in Figure 2. The volume of the entire module is < 1.4 cubic centimeters, including the 3 panels, a X-cube prism, and the projection optics.
The second solution uses 3 individual monochrome projectors, each of which has a volume of 0.4 cubic centimeters, as shown in Figure 3. In this case, diffractive waveguides with multiple layers and input are needed. For both types of modules, besides its advantages of small foot print and high brightness, there are no moving parts, no hazardous laser light sources, no organic materials, thereby making it safer and suitable for rugged operating conditions.
To aid developers in their rapid development, evaluation and prototyping with JBD4UM480P microLED displays, JBD will release the following development kits.
JBD4UM480P VGA microLED displays have been designed to meet the requirements for developers working in near-to-eye and projection based micro-display applications such as smart glasses for Information AR, Sports Optics, Holographic sights and the rapidly evolving AR goggles market for sports enthusiasts and athletes. These applications require information such as alerts, notifications, navigation info, reticles, performance metrics etc. in the form of crisp images with excellent outdoor as well as night time readability with the lowest of power consumption that can fulfilled with JBD’s microLED technology.
“Having already launched high resolution & ultra-high pixel density microLED displays for applications requiring immersive content we found that there was a genuine need for an ultra-compact, ultra-bright and power efficient microLED display for applications focused on status and information based augmented and mixed reality” said Dr. Qiming Li, CEO and founder of Jade Bird Display. “Our breakthrough technology will now enable developers to create next-generation end products with the smallest and sleekest of form factors enhancing user comfort and fulfil the much-desired requirements for outdoor readability, excellent contrast and longer operating times between charges. Furthermore, our JBD4UM480P microLED displays will be competitively priced in tens of dollars (USD) which will see the end-products successfully breach the price sensitive consumer markets.”
About Jade Bird Display
Founded in 2015, JBD has been focusing on developing the smallest, brightest, and most efficient micro-display panels. With a fab established in Shanghai CHINA, JBD is considered as one of the leaders in microLED display technologies with its portfolio of active matrix microLED displays. For more information, visit JBD’s website, Linkedin or Twitter pages.
