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From mobile phones, TVs, to cars and public screens, displays have become an important component in our daily life to convey information. There is an emerging display type— Micro-LED display, which has the potential to become the next-generation mainstream.

Due to the size miniaturization, the tiny inorganic LEDs of micro-LED displays typically have a very different performance compared with the relatively large LEDs used in lighting applications. This article will introduce the typical performance of inorganic micro-LEDs used in display applications, their challenges, and potential solutions.

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Market research companies of all sizes generally pitch the 2020 market for Internet of Things at $200-£500 billion. They cite the leading players as companies with around that in total sales! These companies have mostly been large for quite a while so have their traditional businesses collapsed and been replaced by this great new thing? There is no evidence for that. So what do the pundits say these massive sums consist of?

In this article we introduce some guidelines useful in formulating your strategy. In other articles we have given the latest on tools that are useful such as the profitability V curve and the experience curve.

A valuable tool in predicting risk and enduring profitability of businesses is the profitability V curve.

In 1936, Theodore Paul Wright, at Curtiss-Wright in the United States, found that every time total aircraft production doubled, the required labour time for a new aircraft fell by 20%. This has become known as "Wright's law".

For ease of reading, we use the term transparent electronics to include translucent in this report. It embraces flexible, even stretchable devices but, for now, the main focus is on rigid ones.

In this premium article IDTechEx discuss three exciting emerging applications of printed/flexible electronics, including multiple case studies.