MicroEmissive Displays was founded in 1999 by Dr Ian Underwood of the University of Edinburgh and Dr Jeff Wright of Napier University and has a licence from Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) for the production of microdisplays using CDT’s proprietary P-OLED technology. MicroEmissive Displays has raised three rounds of venture capital funding between 2000 and 2003 and in late 2004, MicroEmissive Displays floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM). Funding has been used for proof of principle, technology development and establishing pre-production facilities in Edinburgh, Scotland, culminating in the first product release and commercial shipments of MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen® microdisplays in December 2005.

During 2006, MicroEmissive Displays announced its intention to locate its purpose built volume manufacturing plant alongside the Fraunhofer IPMS in Dresden, Germany and a fourth venture capital funding round to support this investment has been successfully completed.

MicroEmissive Displays employs more than seventy people at its headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland and its manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany. The company also has sales representatives and applications support located in Asia, Europe and the USA.