MASTERCLASSES
& Tours
23 September 2025
2025
Onsite
Masterclasses
**IMPORTANT* Tours are currently sold out. Thus if you select the option with Masterclasses and Tours, we can only guarantee your place in the masterclasses in the morning of the 23 Sept 2025, but not the tours after lunch. Actual tour attendance will be subject to availability on the day.
What to Expect
There will be two parallel tracks of industry-led masterclasses on 23 September 2025, the day before the conference. Each 45-min masterclass will cover a technology or application detail, offering an insightful blend of practical, technological and application knowledge. These masterclasses will be delivered by industry experts and may involve live demonstrations. You will also have access to the recording of masterclasses from 2024 (see here)
Masterclasses program.
Explore the program below
Masterclass Agenda
Masterclasses | Track 1
Display Training Center
microLED Consumer Displays - A First Principles Cost Analysis for Materials, Process and Equipment
9:00 AM
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Radu Reit
Consumer electronics displays are an incredibly cost-sensitive component given the increasing motherglass-area advantages LCD and OLED have enjoyed over the years. While uLED can command a premium price point due to potential advantages in select areas such as system battery life, maximum brightness and viewing angle improvements, most high-volume applications will still require pricing in-line with the current incumbents. In this masterclass, we go dive top-down into an example high volume display (>1M units) and explore what the cost contribution of materials, equipment and process would realistically have to be in various yield and technology choice configurations.
TrendForce
Next-Gen Vision: VR/AR Revolutionizing Near-Eye Displays- Overview of Head-Mounted Devices
10:00 AM
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Eric Chiou
VR, MR, and AR have become bridges connecting humans between the real and virtual worlds. The development focus of VR/MR is on lightweight design and providing better immersion, allowing the application of the devices to extend beyond just the leisure and entertainment fields. As the mainstream technology used in high-end products, OLEDoS focuses on further enhancing specifications such as brightness and PPI. Meanwhile, mature technologies like glass OLED and LCD are also actively integrating backplane technologies, including LTPO, to balance the requirements of mainstream products in terms of specifications and cost. With the assistance of AI capabilities, AR glasses are now able to meet the consensus on specifications and design requirements for lightweight, power-efficient, and high-brightness clear images. In the area of display optics, LCoS is currently a relatively balanced option. LEDoS is highly anticipated by the industry for its compact size and high brightness, while OLEDoS maintains its competitive edge in both VR/MR and AR fields through panel miniaturization. Waveguide, as the mainstream optical solution, also plays an indispensable role in achieving miniaturization, low power consumption, and high efficiency. Moreover, there is ample room for optimization in materials selection, processing methods, and structural design.
Labbet Advice
The Battle for AR Displays: MicroLED, LCOS, LBS, and the Race to Power the Future of Smart Glasses
11:00 AM
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Alexander Mityashin
As augmented reality inches closer to mainstream adoption, the competition among display technologies intensifies. MicroLED, LCOS, LBS, and other contenders each promise unique advantages - be it brightness, efficiency, or compact form factors - while grappling with their own technical and commercial hurdles. This talk will examine the recent breakthroughs and setbacks across key AR display technologies, evaluating their current viability and trajectory. Finally, we will explore the future landscape: will a single technology dominate, or will different solutions carve out specialised roles? Join us for a deep dive into the evolving AR display ecosystem and what it means for the future of immersive computing.
Labbet Advice is an independent advisory firm for deep-tech companies in Semiconductors and Photonics and to their investors. We strive for highest quality and confidence on various facets of deep-tech venturing: from building strategically valuable financing rounds and customer partnerships for companies, to providing expert assessments and due diligence services to their investors.
R&D to ROI Consulting
From Fab to Final Image: Optimizing MicroLED Manufacturing, Systems, and Content
12:00 PM
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Zahir Alpaslan
This masterclass explores the interplay between microLED manufacturing, system integration, and content optimization. From the fabrication process to the final image seen by the viewer, each step in the value chain influences performance, cost, and user experience. The discussion will take both technical and business perspectives to examine key constraints and opportunities, and explore how understanding and leveraging the human visual system can guide the design and manufacturing of display systems that are not only visually comfortable but also more profitable.
Masterclasses | Track 2
imec
Patterning technologies for AR waveguides
9:00 AM
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Matthew C. Traub
A key technical challenge for AR devices is to improve optical performance and efficiency while simultaneously shrinking component size and cost, most critically for large components related to waveguide displays. Recent advances in optical meta-surfaces show promise in for these applications but significant hurdles remain to achieve the required feature complexity in the needed materials at a reasonable cost. A robust ecosystem for advanced patterning exists within the semiconductor industry, offering the potential to adapt existing tooling and methods to the materials and requirements of AR waveguides. This talk will describe some of the key challenges for AR display optics, including waveguides, how existing nanofabrication capabilities from the CMOS industry can be leveraged to address them, and where new developments are needed.
III-V Consulting
µLED Display Architectures for AR Glasses: Key Platforms, Concepts & Performance Drivers
10:00 AM
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Stephan Lutgen
Micro-LEDs are unlocking the next generation of bright, efficient, and ultra-compact displays for augmented reality (AR).
We present a complete technology pathway to achieve the smallest pixel pitches without compromising performance.
Leveraging advanced device simulations, optical engineering, high-precision CMOS integration, and optimized AR optics, we address key challenges including surface recombination in red emitters, improved light extraction and light coupling in DPA-Optics, and system-level efficiency.
As the “north star” for µLED AR displays, we compare color mixing of monochrome µLEDs with monolithic multicolor RGB-µLED architectures for AR glasses, revealing trade-offs in pixel pitch, efficiency, and form factor.
This holistic optimization approach paves the way for ultra-fine-pitch, high-performance, full-color µLED displays that bring AR glasses closer to seamless, real-world deployment
Beneq
Enabling Scalable MicroLED and AR Display Manufacturing with Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
11:00 PM
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Tatiana Ivanova / John Rönn
This class consists covers two themes related to ALD in microLED and AR display manufacturing
1) MicroLED Devices & Manufacturing
This part of the class will cover how ALD supports materials engineering and process enablement for scalable, cost-effective microLED fabrication and integration.
2) AR / Waveguide Displays
This part of the class will cover how ALD enables high-index contrast coatings and encapsulation solutions vital for next-gen waveguide optics and AR display stability.
Speakers:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-r%C3%B6nn-7a26a9221/?originalSubdomain=fi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatiana-ivanova-14383114b/?originalSubdomain=fi
KGOnTech
Optical AR Displays and Optics Tradeoffs
12:00 PM
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Karl Guttag
Optical AR Displays and Optics Tradeoffs
Guided Company Tours
**IMPORTANT* Tours are currently sold out. Thus if you select the option with Masterclasses and Tours, we can only guarantee your place in the masterclasses in the morning of the 23 Sept 2025, but not the tours after lunch. Actual tour attendance will be subject to availability on the day.
23 September 2025
Eindhoven is the most important and probably fastest growing deep-tech and manufacturing technology hub in Europe.
In the afternoon of 23 September 2025, we will be organising several guided tours of the state-of-the-art research centres and companies at the High Tech Campus and beyond, offering you a chance to see technology developments and facilities first hand and to network with other participants.
ASML
ASML Experience Center (EC): The unique view into the world of lithography.
Please bring your ID to be able to attend this tour.
The visit to the ASML Experience Center (EC) offers a unique view into the world of lithography.
ASML makes machines that make chips – essential for all those devices that inform, entertain and protect us. In the Experience Center, ASML welcomes visitors to this high-tech world. The space is specially designed for different target groups, new employees, customers and suppliers. The interactive interior, which is reminiscent of a cleanroom. A set of dynamic media tools surprising, bundled and powerfully inspiring data that ASML sends from all over the world.
On a huge video wall with dozens of screens, visitors can get a semi-live image of the company, but there is also a life-size projection of the EUV machine to experience in virtual reality. In the Experience Center, not only the latest technology is shown, but visitors also get to know the people of ASML. The EC also plays an important role in the introduction program for new employees.
SCIL, Holst Center, 3EALITY
The multi-stop tour at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven
This tour will have multiple stops at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven near the venue. The group will visit the following stages. The order of visits depends on your subgroup.
The company tour of SCIL Nanoimprint Solutions takes you to their Application Lab with the AutoSCIL and FabSCIL high-volume NIL systems. The Application Lab serves as a research and development facility, where customers can also get a hands-on demonstration of SCIL's technologies and solutions for diverse applications in nanophotonics, like AR wave guides, microLED, PCSEL, VCSEL, PIC, sensors and more.
High-precision R&D assembly tool with 6 Degrees of Freedom
An in-house built R&D system used to showcase Holst Centre laser-based technologies for high throughput integration of microLEDs, requiring deposition of very fine patterns of solder pastes and tacky flux, and accurate and well-controlled transfer of components from a donor wafer to target substrates. The system is equipped with a scanner and enables the alignment of donor and receiver substrates with micrometer precision.
A flexible optical platform with multi-laser capability and accurate stages
A versatile and highly flexible optical platform equipped with different lasers. The system is used for process development and evaluation of novel processes that are eventually being integrated into a high-precision R&D platform.
3EALITY is an incubator hub at High Tech Campus Eindhoven with a focus on Spatial Computing and XR. During the tour several residents will showcase their applied XR solutions, e.g. high end virtual world storytelling and applications for schools, hospitals or industry.
Naext: At naext, they are creating a world where accessible public spaces are the new normal. Merging the digital and physical world, their AI driven spatial platform intuitively adapts to the environment, delivering only the most relevant information. Helping you move through your day with ease.
The Gateway: The Gateway is a metaverse company where visitors are fully immersed in virtual reality experiences powered by cutting-edge advancements in real-time rendering, ultra-low latency networks and conversational AI. These technologies seamlessly converge to create dynamic environments so realistic they blur the boundary between the virtual and the real.
VRinSChool: VRinSchool is an innovative educational company, dedicated to revolutionizing traditional learning experiences through the power of virtual reality (VR) technology. Founded with a vision to enhance education by making it more immersive, engaging, and interactive, VRinSchool has been at the forefront of integrating VR into classrooms and educational settings.
Typeware: The world's first wearable keyboard & mouse with a standard QWERTY layout and mechanical keys. Engineered for health, comfort and productivity
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