Leia Inc is a start-up based in Silicon Valley, California. We’re the manufacturer of the world’s first holographic 3D displays for mobile applications. Core to our technology are diffraction gratings defined using advance deep ultra-violet (DUV) lithography on an inexpensive, blank glass backlight substrate. These features defined using nanotechnology can directionally scatter incident light from an LED source. A liquid crystal display (LCD) is elegantly placed on top of the backlight to seamlessly modulate the light rays to form a hologram, that is, a virtual object made entirely of light. The Leia display requires no glasses, no eye-tracking, and 3D graphical contents can be derived from a chrome-based platform using open-source WebGL and java-based scripting languages.

In this talk, we will give an overview of the physics behind, and production of our diffraction gratings, that lie at the heart of our technology. Furthermore, we will explain the design principles and paradigms of glasses-free 3D screens. And finally, we will show our latest prototypes, that are being revealed to the world for the first time in this year’s Mobile World Congress.

The ability to realistically render the world in 3D enables a wealth of possibilities and can enhance fields that spans from healthcare to design to maps and navigation to education. Through our interactive holomodule, we hope to bring you closer to the people you love and the things you like.


Seminar, March 6, 2015, 12:00. Seminar Room

Hosted by Prof. Romain Quidant