Dr. Guillaume Chansin

What’s Next for the MicroLED Industry?

Apple’s decision to cancel its MicroLED smart watch has left the industry without a champion. Samsung is still promoting MicroLED TVs, but the technology is prohibitively expensive compared to OLED and MiniLED LCD.

MicroLED is still considered a promising display technology, but there will be limited applications in the short term. All eyes are now on the automotive market, as well as some premium applications in consumer electronics. For smart glasses, small MicroLED displays on silicon backplanes have made inroads but there are still challenges to make full color displays.

Guillaume was previously Senior Product Line Manager at Plessey Semiconductors where he managed customer projects integrating microLED displays into AR/VR headsets. He led market research activities to position Plessey’s new product lines and understand the competitive landscape. In this role he worked closely with the Business Development and Marketing teams to promote the benefits of monolithic GaN-on-Si for microdisplays.

He first started working in display technology when he joined Plastic Logic (now FlexEnable) as an engineer to develop the first flexible e-paper display. That’s when he attended Display Week for the first time and became fascinated by this industry. After Plastic Logic, he became an analyst for IDTechEx and covered the progress of OLED and quantum dot displays, as well as the emerging sensors and haptics integrated in flat panels. He spoke at several international conference on printed and flexible electronics and regularly travelled to the USA, Japan, Korea and France to visit suppliers. In 2018 he started Irimitech, and independent consultancy on emerging materials and devices.

Guillaume has a Master’s degree in Physics Engineering from INSA Toulouse and a PhD from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis was on single-molecule optical sensing with solid-state nanopores.