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LIGHTNING SILICON

A Leading Solution Provider of OLED Microdisplays and Optics for the Metaverse

ABOUT

Enabling AR/VR/MR

Lightning Silicon Technology, Inc. (LST) is a startup spun out of Kopin Corporation (Kopin) in January 2023. Founded by former Kopin executives and engineers, LST leads the world in OLED microdisplay and optics technology. LST has licensed related foundational intellectual properties from Kopin. Former Kopin executives John Fan, Boryeu Tsaur and Hong Choi are co-founders of LST.

 

One of LST' s core technologies is Si backplane designs for OLED microdisplays. LST's patented backplane architecture offers low power consumption, fast speed, small pixel sizes, high yields, and ease of processing by any OLED deposition foundry. LST is working with Si wafer foundry partners to produce Si backplane wafers. LST provides Si backplane wafers to OLED foundries, as well as OLED microdisplays to customers.

 

LST's other core technology is optics, particularly all-plastic Pancake optics for MR, VR and AR applications. The company designs and provides Pancake optics with the highest performance, lightest weight and largest magnification factor, with the field of view up to 105° (H/V) from a 1.3" microdisplay.

1.3"-diagonal 2.6K x 2.6K OLED Microdisplay

Panasonic Meganex VR Glasses

with Lightning Silicon's OLED Microdisplays

Lightning Silicon offers the solutions to two critical components for AR/VR headsets: high-performance OLED microdisplays; and compact, lightweight all-plastic Pancake® optics that projects a huge, immersive image from a tiny microdisplay to a human eye. 

  • OLED backplane wafers including custom designs

  • OLED microdisplays

  • Pancake Optics

  • Display Modules comprising microdisplay and optics assembled in a housing.

Products

OLED Microdisplays

Diagonal Size

VGA
640 x 480

XGA
1024 x 768

720p
1280 x 720

QVQA
1280 x 960

2K x 2K
2048 x 2048

2.6K x 2.6K
2560 x 2560

Resolution

1.3"

0.99"

0.26"

0.61"

0.39"

0.49"

0.50"

Pancake® Optics

All-plastic Pancake optics provide a very large field-of-view image from a micro-display with superior image quality in a much smaller size, lighter weight.

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TECHNOLOGY

Lightning Silicon has licensed Kopin’s intellectual properties on OLED microdisplays and optics including 30 patents/applications and seven OLED microdisplay products.

Our Team

Lightning Silicon's  Technical Staff members came out from Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN) and  have an average of >25 years of experience in designing and manufacturing of microdisplays on Si or innovative optics solutions including the Pancake optics.

John C. C. Fan
Executive Chairman

Boryeu Tsaur

General Manager / COO

Hong Choi

Chief Technology Officer

Kenneth Fan

Chief Financial Officer

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