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SelfArray, Inc. developers of magnetic vibration LED placement technology for the manufacture of direct-view LED displays, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Award to continue its work in the field.
Direct-view LED displays use individual tiny LED packages as pixels, and there are 8 million SMD LED packages with a total of 24 million LEDs in a single 4K display. According to SelfArray "it takes anywhere from 3 weeks to 4 months to assemble a single direct-view LED display, as a robotic arm must place each LED into a pixel array individually".
SelfArray is developing technology that utilizes magnets, vibration, and levitation to self-assemble LEDs in an array that can then be used to make a display. By using this method, SelfArray claims it can drastically reduce the manufacturing time from months to merely minutes.
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"Our technology enables the assembly of large LED subsystems hundreds of times faster and with lower capital equipment costs than is common today, and our new NSF grant will enable us to continue our research and development over the next two years," said Dr. Clinton Ballinger, CEO and Founder, SelfArray. "Our goal is to create a process that facilitates the manufacture of a lower cost direct-view LED display that will replace current methods and displace LCD or OLED technology."
Direct-view LED displays use individual tiny LED packages as pixels, and there are 8 million SMD LED packages with a total of 24 million LEDs in a single 4K display. According to SelfArray "it takes anywhere from 3 weeks to 4 months to assemble a single direct-view LED display, as a robotic arm must place each LED into a pixel array individually".
SelfArray is developing technology that utilizes magnets, vibration, and levitation to self-assemble LEDs in an array that can then be used to make a display. By using this method, SelfArray claims it can drastically reduce the manufacturing time from months to merely minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7bPHuZcUyg
"Our technology enables the assembly of large LED subsystems hundreds of times faster and with lower capital equipment costs than is common today, and our new NSF grant will enable us to continue our research and development over the next two years," said Dr. Clinton Ballinger, CEO and Founder, SelfArray. "Our goal is to create a process that facilitates the manufacture of a lower cost direct-view LED display that will replace current methods and displace LCD or OLED technology."