The eyescreen® microdisplay uses a patented structure of polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) material layered on a silicon chip. The manufacturing process for eyescreen® starts by taking a mirrored, fully processed CMOS wafer, which acts as the active matrix backplane, and depositing upon it a series of nano-scale layers. One of these layers consists of the light emitting P-OLED material, which generates white light when a small electric current is passed through it. The cathode is deposited as a thin, transparent metallic layer. A protective inorganic thin film encapsulation is deposited over the entire structure. The silicon wafer is then laminated to a glass wafer containing patterned colour filters, which filter the white light to provide the RGB (red, green, blue) sub-pixels that make up a colour display.

MicroEmissive Displays benefits from its supplier partnerships; it has a licence from Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) for the production of microdisplays using their P-OLED technology and the P-OLED materials are manufactured by Sumation. MicroEmissive Displays outsources the production of its active matrix backplanes to a world leading semiconductor foundry, who have developed a CMOS process customised for use in MicroEmissive Displays’ P-OLED microdisplays. Glass wafer / colour filter laminates are procured from a Far East supplier and cost competitive microdisplay packaging and flex assembly are carried out in Asia.

In 2006, MicroEmissive Displays announced its intention to locate its brand new, purpose built volume manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany alongside the Fraunhofer IPMS. The eyescreen® will be manufactured in Dresden using MicroEmissive Displays’ proprietary technology and once fully ramped, the Dresden facility will have the capability to produce 10 million microdisplays per annum.