News broke recently that Apple may soon start making its own displays. Surprisingly, however, these won’t be OLED or LED-backlit LCDs. Instead, Apple is eyeing an emerging display tech that supposedly trumps both in terms of brightness, color accuracy, and durability. It’s called microLED.
What is microLED?
The mobile industry is currently dominated by LCD displays that are backlit by light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. Although this type of panels is frequently referred to as “LED display”, the diodes simply provide a backlight, which is then filtered through a number of layers—polarizers, liquid crystal, color filters, and others—to create an image.
