midas tft lcd factory

Formed in 2000, Midas is a specialist electronics company, designing, manufacturing and supplying high-quality display and ultrasonic sensor products, and accessories, for a broad range of applications and markets. We pride ourselves on being able to provide a fast, reliable service, supported by a high level of technical and commercial skills, delivered with the personal touch.

Midas Displays extensive range of electronic displays includes; Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD), Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED), Thin Film Transistor LCD’s (TFT), and E-Paper. These are manufactured at our sites in Taiwan, China and Myanmar.

Midas Displays are also proud to have franchise agreements with outstanding optical specialists including Batron, DKE, Fordata, Mildex Optical Inc, and CiVue Optotech Inc.

Midas displays can be added and included in a wide range of applications, below is a few examples but the possibilities for displays in applications is limitless.

Winstar is a global leading Manufacturer of TFT LCD display based in Taiwan and China.  Winstar offers a wide product range of small to medium sizes TFT display modules in sizes ranging such as 2.4″ TFT LCD, 2.8″ TFT LCD, 3.2″ TFT LCD, 3.5″ TFT Display, 4.3 inch TFT LCD, 5 TFT LCD, 5.6 TFT LCD, 5.7 inch Display,  7 ” TFT LCD, 8″ TFT, 9″ TFT, 10.1″ TFT LCD, 10.2″ TFT LCD, 12.1″ TFT LCD , 12.3″ TFT LCD (diagonal size of the active area) and so on .  There are more than 200 TFT standard models listed on this website; furthermore, almost each item is acceptable to derivate from the standard items to meet the customers’ requirement.Winstar TFT displays are qualified under industrial standard including standard TFT-LCD modules, IPS TFT, High brightness TFT LCD (sunlight readable display), TFT panels with controller boards, Bar Type TFT, Wide Temperature TFT LCD, Winstar Clever System TFT and Touch screen display.  These displays include landscape or portrait modes.  Winstar has Mono TFT displays and full color TFTs in line, these displays are available in various resolutions as well as touch screen optional in resistive and projected capacitive (PCAP touch screen) technology.  Many of our TFT display modules have more than one interface available including MCU, RGB, TTL, LVDS and MIPI DSI.  Winstar TFT modules are perfect for a number of applications including industrial control, coffee machine, medical equipment, POS system, automation, GPS navigator, white goods, energy control, telecoms, medical equipment and etc.

Easy-to-use, smart, TFT displays increase the speed of product development, says Midas Displays. Demand for ‘smart’ displays is increasing, with project times shortening, putting pressure on businesses to get an idea through the design process, and into production as soon as possible and to market ahead of competition. A GUI builder is available to help speed up development, enable customisation and allows the customer to simulate the project on the PC.

RGB LCDs which display black characters, or dots, on an RGB backlight, which allows the user to choose any single colour for the backlight. LCDs are traditionally offered as one colour text, or graphic, on a single colour background. These displays give the user more freedom with how the display will look in the application, as the backlight on these displays are full-colour RGB. The ability to choose any single colour as the backlight also gives the user the option to use the display to suggest status within an application, such as hot or cold.

With the addition of a Raspberry Pi SBC, the Midas Displays HDMI TFT display module becomes a fully functional, easy-to-use LCD monitor. The integrated interface PCB has a 40-pin GPIO interface and a standard 19-pin type-A HDMI interface connector, enabling direct connection of a Raspberry Pi SBC. The HDMI TFT modules can also easily be used with many other single board computers. These key features enable the HDMI TFT displays to be used with any external HDMI input source.

Midas Displays also supports interconnect solutions to enable enhanced connectivity of the Raspberry Pi to the HDMI TFT display module. A bespoke HDMI to HDMI interconnect board connects the HDMI output of the Raspberry Pi to the display mounted interface PCB, and a Type-A USB to Micro-B USB cable enables touch-screen functionality to be implemented.

Paul Barton, technical director, Midas Displays said, “Our new HDMI TFT display module product range has been designed and produced to meet the needs of engineers and developers in the embedded and industrial market sectors. Our key goals were to provide a simple yet versatile display solution that could be used with an external HDMI input source. The industry standard video interface HDMI, is extensively supported on single board computers, personal computers, industrial equipment and many other embedded applications. Enabling a ‘plug and play’ HDMI TFT display in a range of sizes and resolutions, coupled with a choice of touch-screen options, provides designers with an easy-to-use display solution that is ideal for prototyping and product development.”

The new Midas Displays 5.0″, 7.0″ and 10.1″ HDMI TFT modules have outstanding optical performance and compact mechanical dimensions, enabling these displays to be used in a wide range of industrial equipment and embedded applications. The new HDMI TFT display modules are available directly from Midas Displays, and via Midas Displays sales channel partners and franchised distributors.

Display manufacturer and supplier, Midas Displays, has announced the introduction of a range of plug and play HDMI TFT display modules. The new displays are available in three different size and resolution options, have excellent brightness and contrast performance, and feature a fully integrated interface PCB.

With the addition of a Raspberry Pi SBC, the Midas Displays HDMI TFT display module becomes a fully functional, easy-to-use LCD monitor. The integrated interface PCB has a 40-pin GPIO interface and a standard 19-pin type-A HDMI interface connector, enabling direct connection of a Raspberry Pi SBC. The HDMI TFT modules can also easily be used with many other single board computers. These key features enable the HDMI TFT displays to be used with any external HDMI input source.

Midas Displays also supports interconnect solutions to enable enhanced connectivity of the Raspberry Pi to the HDMI TFT display module. A bespoke HDMI to HDMI interconnect board connects the HDMI output of the Raspberry Pi to the display mounted interface PCB, and a Type-A USB to Micro-B USB cable enables touch-screen functionality to be implemented.

Our new HDMI TFT display module product range has been designed and produced to meet the needs of engineers and developers in the embedded and industrial market sectors. Our key goals were to provide a simple yet versatile display solution that could be used with an external HDMI input source. The industry standard video interface HDMI, is extensively supported on single board computers, personal computers, industrial equipment and many other embedded applications. Enabling a ‘plug and play’ HDMI TFT display in a range of sizes and resolutions, coupled with a choice of touch-screen options, provides designers with an easy-to-use display solution that is ideal for prototyping and product development.

The new Midas Displays 5.0″, 7.0″ and 10.1” HDMI TFT modules have outstanding optical performance and compact mechanical dimensions, enabling these displays to be used in a wide range of industrial equipment and embedded applications. The new HDMI TFT display modules are available directly from Midas Displays, and via Midas Displays sales channel partners and franchised distributors.

TFT displays are full color LCDs providing bright, vivid colors with the ability to show quick animations, complex graphics, and custom fonts with different touchscreen options. Available in industry standard sizes and resolutions. These displays come as standard, premium MVA, sunlight readable, or IPS display types with a variety of interface options including HDMI, SPI and LVDS. Our line of TFT modules include a custom PCB that support HDMI interface, audio support or HMI solutions with on-board FTDI Embedded Video Engine (EVE2).

The new line of 3.5” TFT displays with IPS technology is now available! Three touchscreen options are available: capacitive, resistive, or without a touchscreen.

Since its initial communalization in the 1990s, active matrix thin-film-transistor (TFT) displays have become an essential and indispensable part of modern living. They are much more than just televisions and smartphones; they are the primary communication and information portals for our day-to- day life: watches (wearables), appliances, advertising, signage, automobiles and more.

There are many similarities in the display TFT manufacturing and semiconductor device manufacturing such as the process steps (deposition, etch, cleaning, and doping), the type of gases used in these steps, and the fact that both display and semiconductor manufacturing both heavily use gases.

In general, there are two types of displays in the market today: active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) and AMOLED. In its simplicity, the fundamental components required to make up the display are the same for AMLCD and AMOLED. There are four layers of a display device (FIGURE 1): a light source, switches that are the thin-film-transistor and where the gases are mainly used, a shutter to control the color selection, and the RGB (red, green, blue) color filter.

Technology trends TFT-LCD (thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display) is the baseline technology. MO / White OLED (organic light emitting diode) is used for larger screens. LTPS / AMOLED is used for small / medium screens. The challenges for OLED are the effect of < 1 micron particles on yield, much higher cost compared to a-Si due to increased mask steps, and moisture impact to yield for the OLED step.

Although AMLCD displays are still dominant in the market today, AMOLED displays are growing quickly. Currently about 25% of smartphones are made with AMOLED displays and this is expected to grow to ~40% by 2021. OLED televisions are also growing rapidly, enjoying double digit growth rate year over year. Based on IHS data, the revenue for display panels with AMOLED technol- ogies is expected to have a CAGR of 18.9% in the next five years while the AMLCD display revenue will have a -2.8% CAGR for the same period with the total display panel revenue CAGR of 2.5%. With the rapid growth of AMOLED display panels, the panel makers have accel- erated their investment in the equipment to produce AMOLED panels.

There are three types of thin-film-transistor devices for display: amorphous silicon (a-Si), low temperature polysilicon (LTPS), and metal oxide (MO), also known as transparent amorphous oxide semiconductor (TAOS). AMLCD panels typically use a-Si for lower-resolution displays and TVs while high-resolution displays use LTPS transistors, but this use is mainly limited to small and medium displays due to its higher costs and scalability limitations. AMOLED panels use LTPS and MO transistors where MO devices are typically used for TV and large displays (FIGURE 3).

This shift in technology also requires a change in the gases used in production of AMOLED panels as compared with the AMLCD panels. As shown in FIGURE 4, display manufacturing today uses a wide variety of gases.