JBD announces Native Color Monolithic RGB MicroLED displays

Jade Bird Display (Shanghai) Limited (JBD) has announced the development of its single chip native color monolithic polychrome (RGB) microLED displays, developed for augmented reality (AR) glasses applications.

The display has a 5 μm color pixel pitch and a corresponding 2.5 μm monochrome R, G & B sub-pixel pitch. The display size is 0.22” diagonal with a qHD resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. The company is currently mass producing its flagship 0.13” 4 μm pixel pitch monochrome Red, Green and Blue displays and will be ramping up capacity at its new Hefei plant, with an annual production capacity of 120 million microLED displays.

This is a new product family aimed at next generation AR glasses with even smaller form factor and ease of system level integration.

MicroLEDs is the front-runner micro-display technology for AR glasses, as it offers the highest efficiency, brightness, contrast ratio, longest device lifetime, ultra-fine pixel density and ultra-compact form factor over incumbent micro-OLED, LCoS and DLP technologies.