Channel 04
Manufacturing
How panels are made at scale — fabs, yield, glass generations, and why defects happen.
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The Sheet of Glass That Determines the Price
The mother-glass generation a fab chooses before pouring concrete determines which panel sizes are profitable — and which competitors can undercut you — for the next decade.
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What a Particle Costs
A single dust grain in the wrong place doesn't slow a TFT fab down — it silently destroys value one substrate at a time.
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Printing Light-Emitting Molecules
Inkjet deposition of soluble OLED materials promises to escape the economics of vacuum evaporation. The physics of the process is mostly understood; making it uniform enough to sell is another matter.
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The Transfer Problem Has Not Been Solved
Mass-transfer yield for microLED at display densities is not a packaging problem with a clever solution waiting in the pipeline. It is a combinatorial wall.