Aledia produces first nanowire chips on 300mm silicon wafers
Aledia, a French start-up developing a disruptive technology for microLED displays, has manufactured the worldâs first microLED chips produced on 300mm (12â) silicon wafers.
The company, which developed its technology on 200mm (8â) silicon wafers over the past eight years, will produce the chips on both 200mm and 300mm wafers. The larger wafers provide better economic payoff and cost-effective integration with smaller-node electronics, which are only available on 300mm silicon wafers.
Aledia was spun out of CEA-Leti, a French research institute pioneering micro- and nanotechnologies, in 2012, and the work on 300mm wafers has been performed by joint Aledia and CEA-Leti teams.