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Micro LED is the technology of the self-radiating display reminding OLED. The main difference consists in use in micro LED of inorganic material, such as nitride of gallium which is applied in normal LEDs of lighting. Organic materials grow old therefore brightness and response time of a matrix suffers; besides, there is a burning out of pixels — there is no it in micro LED. At last, the technology allows to create displays of almost any form for smartphones, TVs and other electronics.
2020: Start of sales of the Samsung MicroLED TV
On December 10, 2020 Samsung announced sales of the first home MicroLED TV. It is about model with the 110-inch screen which cost in the South Korean market will be 170 million wons (about $156 thousand). Read more here.
2018: Samsung begins mass distribution of micro LED
At the beginning of June, 2018 Samsung provided the The Wall Professional dashboard created on micro LED technology. The presentation took place within the InfoComm 2018 exhibition in Las Vegas.
The South Korean producer calls this product the first micro LED panel focused on industrial application and using modular frameless construction which size can be configured depending on tasks.
The Wall Professional has brightness of 1600 nit whereas the screen of movie theater usually issues about 50 nit. Besides, innovation got support of the High Dynamic Range 10+ format and the mechanism of image enhancement at reproduction of movies.
After carrying out InfoComm 2018 the Samsung corporation began to take purchase orders the first infopanely micro LED. To the third quarter new displays will be installed in the USA and other countries.
The first TV constructed on micro LED technology, Samsung announced at the beginning of 2018. Then the company promised to begin serial production of a product in July, 2018 and to start sales in September.
Though Samsung is not the first producer which released products based on micro LED, but this company is capable to make technology really mass thanks to the huge resources and leadership in the display market.[1]