This company fabricates LEDs directly onto metal foil, enabling roll-to-roll manufacturing processes. Their technology supports the creation of flexible LEDs and integrated LED devices on large-area foils. This advancement facilitates new applications across lighting, wearables, and controlled environment agriculture grow lights.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Manufacturing single-crystal films typically requires expensive single-crystal substrates, limiting scalability and increasing production costs. Traditional methods for depositing crystalline films on non-single-crystal substrates often result in poor alignment and reduced performance.
Solution
iBeam Materials provides ion-beam technology that enables the deposition of functional epitaxial coatings on a variety of substrates, including metal foils. This technology facilitates crystalline alignment of thin films, creating templates for the epitaxial growth of single-crystal films without the need for single-crystal substrates. By enabling the direct fabrication of LEDs on metal foils, iBeam Materials' technology supports roll-to-roll manufacturing and the integration of LED devices on large-area flexible substrates. This approach reduces manufacturing costs and opens up new applications for LEDs and other thin-film devices.
Target Audience
The primary customers are manufacturers of LEDs, displays, superconductors, and other thin-film devices seeking to reduce costs, improve performance, and enable new applications through epitaxial deposition on non-single-crystal substrates.
Features
- Ion-beam deposition technology for epitaxial coating
- Crystalline alignment of films on non-single-crystal substrates
- Enables direct LED fabrication on metal foils
- Supports roll-to-roll manufacturing processes
- Facilitates the creation of flexible LEDs and displays