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ReviewLight, science & applications2025

Future trends of display technology: micro-LEDs toward transparent, free-form, and near-eye displays.

Tae Soo Kim, Jung-El Ryu, Jinhong Park, Rih-Jia Liu, Joonghoon Choi, Jeehwan Kim, Young Joon Hong, Dong-Hwan Kim, Jiho Shin

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Review in Light, science & applications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Tae Soo Kim *Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9052-9140
Jung-El Ryu *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1795-827X
Jinhong Park *Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
Rih-Jia LiuArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
Joonghoon ChoiDepartment of Nano Science and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea.
Jeehwan KimDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Young Joon HongDepartment of Nano Science and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea. yjhong78@skku.edu.
Dong-Hwan KimSchool of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea. dhkim1@skku.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-0955
Jiho ShinArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA. jihoshin@tamu.edu.

Funding

Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) RS-2024-00435693National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2022M3H4A1A04096380National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2022M3H4A3A01082883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Displays are one of the most indispensable electronic devices used in our daily lives. Over the past decades, display technology has evolved relentlessly, driven by innovation in materials, structures, and manufacturing processes that have enabled higher image quality, larger screen size, slimmer form factor, and novel functionalities. The display market is currently dominated by liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, but significant investment and research efforts are being directed toward emerging self-emissive display technologies, such as micro-light-emitting diodes (micro-LEDs), as well as unconventional applications such as transparent, deformable, and near-eye displays. This review article begins with a historical background of self-emissive display technology and an overview of the recent advances in organic-, quantum dot-, perovskite-, and micro-LED displays. We then critically review the current state of micro-LED technology, including its size-dependent performance issues, different types of mass transfer technologies, backplane interconnection techniques, methods for detection/repair of defective pixels, and emerging display applications, including transparent, deformable, and virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) displays.

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PMID40976799
PMCPMC12451013

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