2020 Growth Opportunities in MicroLED Fabrication, Low Power Edge Devices, Wearables, and Transistors

Some of the Key Innovations Profiled Include a Fabrication Technology for Production of MicroLED Displays, Power Management Integrated Circuits for IoT Applications, and IC for Flexible Electronics

This November 2020 Microelectronics Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) issue covers innovations in microLED fabrication, low power edge devices, wearables, and transistors. Some of the key innovations profiled include a fabrication technology for production of microLED displays, power management Integrated Circuits for IoT applications, IC for flexible electronics, AI integrated smart glasses, MOSFETs, and techniques to keep silicon microelectronics cool.

The Microelectronics TOE captures global electronics-related innovations and developments on a weekly basis. Developments are centered on electronics attributed by low power and cost, smaller size, better viewing, display and interface facilities, wireless connectivity, higher memory capacity, flexibility and wearables.

Research focus themes include small footprint lightweight devices (CNTs, graphene), smart monitoring and control (touch and haptics), energy efficiency (LEDs, OLEDs, power and thermal management, energy harvesting), and high speed and improved conductivity devices (SiC, GaN, GaAs).