Chairman and CEO
PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.
MicroLED Display Technology: Mass Production and New Opportunities
Dr. Yun-Li (Charles) Li is the CEO and co-founder of PlayNitride, one of the most advanced MicroLED companies in the world. PlayNitride was established by Dr. Li and his partners in 2014. Under Dr. Li's leadership, PlayNitride keeps the leader position in development and production of MicroLED display technology. From September 2019, PlayNitride starts running the first MicroLED production line in Taiwan to deliver products to customers. In August 2022, PlayNitride became the first IPO company of Taiwan Innovation Board.
Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) with Prof. Fred Schubert in 2003. Dr. Li's Ph.D. work focused on gallium nitride (GaN) based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and LED-based applications.
In 2020, Dr. Li received Special Recognition Award from Society for Information Display (SID). It recognized Dr. Li and his team in development and commercialization of MicroLED technology. It also indicated that MicroLED has been identified as the new generation display technology and key development topic.
MicroLED display is an innovative display technology with high brightness, wide color gamut, high aperture ratio, and excellent reliability. MicroLED technology represents a new era in display technology, and it already enters the mass production phase. It can be used in traditional display applications and can also be applied to various innovative display technologies, such as AR glasses, transparent displays, electric vehicles, or other new use cases, expanding the application of displays into more fields. Therefore, the most critical challenges are how to rapidly reduce costs and finding new applications to enable the widespread adoption of MicroLED.