ISA - EPIC/PIDA Online Technology Meeting

                             On Mini/Micro LED

“ISA - EPIC/PIDA Online Technology Meeting on Mini/Micro LED” was held online (by ZOOM) on March 25^th, 2021, which was co-organized by International SSL Alliance (ISA) Micro-LED Committee, European Optoelectronic Industry Association (EPIC) and Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA).  

About 320 representatives from more than 200 companies, research institutes, and universities around the world attended the meeting. The participants were from the countries worldwide, such as China, United States of America, France, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc.

The meeting was co-chaired by Professor Yan Qun, Chairman of ISA Micro-LED Committee, and Secretary General of International Society for Information Display (SID), and Dr. Jose Pozo, Chief Technology Officer of EPIC.

Mr. Carlos Lee, President of EPIC, and Professor Yan Qun, Chairman of ISA Micro-LED Committee, Secretary General of SID, presented the welcome address.

Mr. Lee believed that it was important to be able to help European and Chinese companies cooperate. Although we were unable to have business trips or meet each other during the epidemic period, we could still communicate face to face through online conference, learn each other’s advanced technologies and seek cooperation opportunities. He pointed that the most important thing for a company was to manufacture products and develop technologies. And there would be many opportunities for European and Chinese companies to work together in the future.

Professor Yan thanked the organizers for providing a very good opportunity to bring together experts from China, Europe and many other countries or regions around the world. This meeting would promote the information exchange of micro-LED among China, Europe and other countries or regions, and provide a platform for the establishment of cooperation. He said that ISA would continue to hold such meetings in the future.

In total 9 experts from well-known enterprises of China, Taiwan, China and Europe made speeches and shared their advantages, practical issues in Mini/Micro-LED manufacturing and application as well as their solutions.

The speakers were:

1.      Mr. Juncheng XIAO, Director of Technical Development, TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., TCL CSOT;

2.      Mr. Alexandre Chikhaoui, Business Development Director, X-Celeprint;

3.      Mr. Kenneth Tai, Chairman of PIDA Association;

4.      Mr. Chia-Hsin Chao, Manager of Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratory, ITRI;

5.      Mr. Ke WANG, Director of Research Centre, BOE;

6.      Mr. Falcon Liu, Marketing Director, Play Nitride;

7.      Mr. Yuan DING, Director of R&D of Tian’ma Micro-electronics Co.;

8.      Mr. I-Jan Chen, Chairman/COO, Southport;

9.      Dr. Jouko Lång, CTO, Founder, Comptek Solutions Ltd.

Each speaker took some questions through written and oral ways after his presentation. More detailed questions would be communicated via email, WeChat and other ways after the meeting.

After the presentations, EPIC provided a special live interactive chat platform, where each participant could freely log in and find out who they were interested in for communication. One of the purposes of this live platform was to dig up more interested questions which raised at the meeting, and the other was to discuss the cooperation opportunities in the future. About two-thirds of participants logged in and carried out their communication.

At the closing session, Professor Yan concluded with the following remarks:

“Each speaker shared very important and usable content. This meeting covered the Mini/Micro LED manufacturing, chips and the challenges in applications. We had an exciting and detailed discussions on Mini/Micro LED in the meeting and gained a lot. I hoped that through this meeting we could better strengthen the cooperation and exchange needed in the field of Mini/Micro LED.”

Dr. Jose Pozo expressed the following views. He hoped that through the communication and discussion in this meeting, we could better carry out the business in the field of Micro/ MINI LED in the future, enhance communication and find more partners. He was looking forward to the next meeting. He recommended all the participants click the following link https://www.wonder.me/ and join the chat platform, so as to better following up what we discussed during the meeting and   expand business in the future.

The meeting ended at 19:40 Beijing time.

The “ISA - EPIC/PIDA Online Technology Meeting on Mini/Micro LED” had the following features:

Firstly, the orientation of the meeting design was focused on the practical issues that the companies (manufacturing and application enterprises) were facing in Mini/Micro-LED currently. Speakers introduced the characteristics of their companies’ technical solutions, specific technological issues they run up during their daily manufacture. More than 200 European companies had registered in EPIC Secretariat to attend the meeting, which showed their great interests on the topics.  Lumileds, based in Malaysia, had 90 people attending the meeting.

Secondly, the meeting had intensive discussions, and the questions raised were very professional and pertinent. Some participants reached the intention of cooperation during the meeting or volunteered to provide solutions.

Thirdly, the meeting attached great importance to follow-up discussions and established a special chatting platform, which provided opportunities for immediately following up and further communication and cooperation.

For those who are interested in the meeting contents or request the PPTs, please contact the ISA Secretariat.

Ms. Jin, jinzhao@isa-world.org, 010-62607581.