Patent Publication Number: US-10332868-B2

Title: Stacked pixel structures

Description:
PRIORITY APPLICATION 
     This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/450,866, filed Jan. 26, 2017, entitled Stacked Pixel Structure, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. 
    
    
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention relates generally to physical pixel structures in a display and in particular to structures with stacked inorganic light emitters and pixel controllers. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Flat-panel displays have an array of pixels distributed in a display viewing area over a display substrate. The pixels are electrically controlled using matrix addressing with the intersection of row and column wires on the substrate defining pixel locations and from which rows of pixels in the array are sequentially provided with control signals. Passive-matrix control relies on row and column controllers external to the display viewing area to sequentially enable rows of pixels to emit light, so that only one row of pixels at a time emits light. Active-matrix control relies on local storage and control provided in the display viewing area for each pixel, for example with a storage capacitor and driving transistor and as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 9,117,940. Data is provided from an external column controller to selected rows of pixels in sequence and the rows are sequentially selected with a row controller. The pixels in each selected row receive data on the column wires and store the data locally in the pixel. Once the data is received and stored, it is displayed at each pixel by the control circuitry in the pixel by providing power to the pixel light controllers, for example electrodes controlling a liquid crystal (in the case of a liquid crystal display) or an organic light-emitting diode (in the case of an OLED display). 
     Resolution is an important performance attribute for displays and is calculated as the number of pixels, or light-emitters, per linear metric in one or both dimensions of the flat-panel display. For example, a display can have a resolution of 250 pixels per inch (ppi) or dots per inch (dpi). Commercially available cell phones have a resolution of 326 ppi. Typically, the resolution of a display is the same in both orthogonal (x, y) display dimensions over the surface of the display, but it is not necessarily so. In general, a greater resolution is preferred because more information can be displayed in a more pleasing way on a higher-resolution display. 
     Increased resolution displays are made using manufacturing processes having reduced tolerances and reduced component sizes, as well as requiring increased operating power and are typically achieved in an active-matrix display by reducing the size of the control circuitry, for example including the wires, light-control electrodes, transistors, and capacitors in a pixel circuit. However, this size reduction increases manufacturing costs and there are limits to the reduction in size of the circuits, especially in flat-panel displays that rely on layers of amorphous silicon or polysilicon to form the circuits. 
     Active-matrix liquid crystal displays (LCD) circuits generally require only one transistor to control the liquid crystals and therefore do not use much area on a display substrate. Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays typically require larger and more complex control circuits than LCDs. The larger circuits increase the size of the OLED pixels for bottom-emitting displays that emit light through the substrate, since the substrate area must be shared between the pixel circuits and the OLED light-emitters. Top-emitting OLED displays locate the OLED light emitters in a layer over the pixel circuits and are not as limited in resolution by the size of the pixel circuit. In both cases, pixels are preferably as large as possible to increase display brightness and lifetime of the OLEDs. For both of these technologies, control circuits are implemented in thin-film layers of silicon provided over the flat-panel display substrate; as the size of the display substrate increases so does the cost of providing high-quality silicon over the substrate. Inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) displays have many advantages, such as efficiency, color purity, and lifetime, and are found today in digital signage and large-format displays, for example in sporting venues. The iLEDs in these displays are mounted in a display frame, for example in an array of tiles, and controlled by circuitry external to the display frame. It is difficult, therefore to construct a high-resolution iLED display. Existing iLED displays often have pixel pitches of approximately 1 mm (25 ppi), a relatively low resolution, especially compared to flat-panel displays. 
     One approach to providing high-performance electronic circuits distributed over a large display substrate is described in “AMOLED Displays using Transfer-Printed Integrated Circuits” published in the Proceedings of the 2009 Society for Information Display International Symposium Jun. 2-5, 2009, in San Antonio Tex., US, vol. 40, Book 2, ISSN 0009-0966X, paper 63.2 p. 947. In this approach, small integrated circuits are formed over a buried oxide layer on the process side of a crystalline wafer. The small integrated circuits, or chiplets, are released from the wafer by etching the buried oxide layer formed beneath the circuits. A PDMS stamp is pressed against the wafer and the process side of the chiplets is adhered to the stamp. The chiplets are pressed against a destination substrate or backplane coated with an adhesive and thereby adhered to the destination substrate. The adhesive is subsequently cured, electrodes are formed, and OLED material layers evaporated over the substrate to form light-emitting pixels. 
     In another example, U.S. Pat. No. 8,722,458 entitled Optical Systems Fabricated by Printing-Based Assembly teaches transferring light-emitting, light-sensing, or light-collecting semiconductor elements from a wafer substrate to a destination substrate or backplane. U.S. Pat. No. 7,972,875 entitled Optical Systems Fabricated by Printing Based Assembly discloses assembling printable semiconductor elements on a substrate via contact printing. U.S. Patent Publication No. 2016/0351539 entitled Inorganic-Light-Emitter displays with Integrated Black Matrix describes an inorganic light-emitting display with micro-transfer printed light-emitting diodes and pixel controllers distributed over a flat-panel display substrate with an integrated black matrix. Certain embodiments of such approaches provide an LED display with improved optical performance but there remains a need for inorganic LED displays with increased resolution and pixel structures that facilitate such increased resolution. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention provides, inter alia, a high-resolution inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) display that comprises a display substrate having a display area and a plurality of pixels disposed over the display substrate in the display area. Each pixel comprises a pixel control device and one or more inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) devices electrically controlled by the pixel control device to emit light. The pixel control devices each include a pixel controller that is disposed on or formed in, on, or in direct contact with a pixel substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the display substrate. The iLED devices each include an iLED that is disposed on or formed in, on, or in direct contact with an iLED substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the display substrate and from the pixel substrate. The one or more iLED devices are disposed in direct contact with the pixel control device and do not extend beyond the pixel controller and the one or more iLED devices have in combination an area over the pixel controller that is smaller than the area of the pixel controller over the display substrate. The pixel controller is disposed in a controller layer over the display substrate and the iLED devices are disposed in an iLED layer different from the controller layer over the display substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, a micro-assembled pixel comprises a pixel control device including a pixel controller and a pixel substrate. The pixel controller is formed or disposed in, on, or in direct contact with the pixel substrate. One or more inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) devices each include an iLED and an iLED substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the pixel substrate. The iLEDs are formed or disposed in, on, or in direct contact with the iLED substrate and are electrically controlled by the pixel controller to emit light. The one or more iLED devices are disposed in direct contact with the pixel control device and do not extend beyond the pixel controller. The one or more iLED devices have in combination an area over the pixel controller that is smaller than the area of the pixel controller surface on which the iLEDs are disposed and the pixel controller is disposed in a controller layer and the iLEDs are disposed in an iLED layer different from the controller layer over the pixel controller. 
     In certain embodiments, a method of micro-assembling a pixel comprises providing a pixel control device having a pixel substrate and an iLED device source wafer having a plurality of iLED devices each including an iLED that is disposed or formed in, on, or in direct contact with an iLED substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the pixel substrate. An iLED device is micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer onto the pixel control device so that the iLED device is in an iLED layer and the pixel control device is in a controller layer different from the iLED layer. The iLED is electrically connected to the pixel controller. 
     The present invention provides, inter alia, an inorganic LED display having increased pixel resolution and improved performance control circuits, for example monocrystalline silicon circuits. In certain embodiments, structures of the present invention can be made using micro-transfer printing, enabling the use of micro-LEDs and micro-controllers having lateral dimensions less than or equal to 100, 50, 25, 15, 10, 5, or 3 microns. 
     In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a high-resolution inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) display, comprising: a display substrate having a display area; and a plurality of pixels disposed over the display substrate in the display area, each pixel comprising a pixel control device and one or more inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) devices electrically connected to and controlled by the pixel control device to emit light, wherein: the pixel control devices each comprise a pixel controller that is disposed or formed in, on, or in direct contact with a pixel substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the display substrate, the one or more iLED devices each comprise an iLED that is disposed or formed in, on, or in direct contact with an iLED substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the display substrate and from the pixel substrates, the one or more iLED devices are disposed in direct contact with the pixel control device and do not extend beyond the pixel controller, and the pixel controller is disposed in a controller layer over the display substrate and the one or more iLED devices are disposed in an iLED layer different from the controller layer over the display substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, the iLED layer is disposed between the controller layer and the display substrate, the display substrate is at least partly transparent to the light emitted by the iLED, and the iLED is disposed to emit light through the display substrate. In certain embodiments, the controller layer is disposed between the iLED layer and the display substrate and the iLEDs are disposed to emit light in a direction away from the display substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, one or more of the one or more iLED devices, the iLED substrate, the pixel control device, and the pixel substrate comprises a broken or separated tether. 
     In certain embodiments, the iLED substrate comprises a semiconductor iLED substrate or a dielectric iLED substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, the pixel control device comprises connection posts electrically connecting the pixel controller to the display substrate. In certain embodiments, the iLED substrate comprises a broken or separated tether. 
     In certain embodiments, the one or more iLED devices comprises three iLED devices disposed in the iLED layer, wherein each of the iLEDs of the three iLED devices emit light of a different color than the iLED of each other iLED device of the three iLED devices. 
     In certain embodiments, the one or more iLED devices each comprises connection posts electrically connecting the iLED to at least one of (i) the pixel controller of the pixel control device on which the iLED device is disposed and (ii) the display substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, the pixel substrate comprises a semiconductor pixel substrate or a dielectric pixel substrate. In certain embodiments, the pixel substrate comprises a broken or separated tether. 
     In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a micro-assembled pixel, comprising: a pixel control device comprising a pixel controller and a pixel substrate, the pixel controller formed or disposed in, on, or in direct contact with the pixel substrate; and one or more inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) devices, each comprising an iLED and an iLED substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the pixel substrate, the iLED formed or disposed in, on, or in direct contact with the iLED substrate and electrically connected to and controlled by the pixel controller to emit light, wherein the one or more iLED devices are disposed in direct contact with the pixel control device and do not extend beyond the pixel controller, and the pixel controller is disposed in a controller layer and the one or more iLED devices are disposed in an iLED layer different from the controller layer over the pixel controller. 
     In certain embodiments, (i) the one or more iLED devices each comprise a broken or separated tether or (ii) the pixel control device comprises a broken or separated tether, or both (i) and (ii). 
     In certain embodiments, the iLED substrate comprises a semiconductor iLED substrate or a dielectric iLED substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, the pixel control device comprises connection posts electrically connected to the pixel controller. In certain embodiments, the one or more iLED devices each comprises connection posts electrically connecting the iLED to the pixel controller. 
     In certain embodiments, the iLED substrate comprises a broken or separated tether. 
     In certain embodiments, the pixel substrate comprises a semiconductor pixel substrate or a dielectric pixel substrate. In certain embodiments, the pixel substrate comprises a broken or separated tether. 
     In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of micro-assembling a pixel, comprising: providing a pixel control device comprising a pixel substrate and a pixel controller; providing an iLED source wafer comprising a plurality of iLED devices each comprising an iLED that is disposed or formed in, on, or in direct contact with an iLED substrate separate, independent, and distinct from the pixel substrate; micro-transfer printing an iLED device from the iLED source wafer onto the pixel substrate of the pixel control device such that the iLED device is in an iLED layer and the pixel control device is in a controller layer different from the iLED layer; and electrically connecting the iLED of the iLED device to the pixel controller. 
     In certain embodiments, the method comprises providing a pixel control device source wafer having one or more pixel control devices disposed or formed in, on, or in direct contact with the pixel controller source wafer; micro-transfer printing an iLED device from the iLED source wafer onto each of the one or more pixel control devices; and electrically connecting each iLED to the corresponding pixel controller on which the LED is micro-transfer printed. 
     In certain embodiments, the iLED device comprises two or more connection posts electrically connected to the iLED and the step of micro-transfer printing the iLED device onto the pixel control device electrically connects the iLED to the pixel controller. 
     In certain embodiments, the method comprises micro-transfer printing two or more different iLED devices, each from a different iLED source wafer, to the pixel control device and electrically connecting the two or more different iLED devices to the pixel controller. 
     In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of making a high-resolution iLED display, comprising: providing a display substrate having a display area; providing a pixel control device source wafer having a plurality of pixel control devices formed or disposed on, in, or in direct contact with the pixel control device source wafer, each of the plurality of pixel control devices comprising a pixel controller formed in or on (e.g., printed on) a pixel substrate; providing one or more iLED devices for each of the plurality of pixel control devices, wherein each of the one or more iLED devices comprises an iLED; electrically connecting the one or more iLED devices to each pixel control device, wherein the one or more iLED devices are disposed in direct contact with the pixel substrate of the pixel control device and do not extend beyond the pixel controller; micro-transfer printing the plurality of pixel control devices from the pixel control device source wafer onto the display substrate in the display area, wherein the plurality of pixel control devices are disposed in a controller layer over the display substrate and the one or more iLED devices disposed on the pixel substrate of each of the plurality of pixel control devices are disposed in an iLED layer different from the controller layer over the display substrate; and electrically connecting the pixel controller of each of the plurality of pixel control devices to the display substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, each of the plurality of pixel control devices comprises two or more connection posts and the step of micro-transfer printing the plurality of pixel control devices onto the display substrate electrically connects the pixel controller of each of the plurality of pixel control devices to the display substrate. 
     In certain embodiments, the method comprises micro-transfer printing the plurality of pixel control devices onto the display substrate; and subsequently micro-transfer printing the one or more iLED devices for each of the plurality of pixel control devices onto the pixel control device and electrically connecting to the pixel controller of the pixel control device. In certain embodiments, the method comprises micro-transfer printing the one or more iLED devices for each of the plurality of pixel control devices onto the display substrate; subsequently micro-transfer printing the pixel control device onto or over the display substrate and electrically connecting the iLED of each of the one or more iLED devices is to the pixel controller of the pixel control device. In certain embodiments, the method comprises micro-transfer printing the one or more iLED devices for each of the plurality of pixel control devices onto the pixel control device; electrically connecting the iLED of each of the one or more iLED devices to the pixel controller; and subsequently micro-transfer printing the pixel control device with the one or more iLED devices disposed thereon onto the display substrate. 
    
    
     
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       The foregoing and other objects, aspects, features, and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent and better understood by referring to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: 
         FIG. 1A  is a plan view schematic of an iLED display, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 1B  is a cross section schematic of an iLED display taken along cross section line A of  FIG. 1A , according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 1C  is a cross section schematic of an iLED display taken along cross section line A of  FIG. 1A , according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C  are cross section schematics illustrating iLED devices having tethers, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 2D  is a cross section schematic illustrating an iLED display using the structure shown in  FIG. 2B , according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 3A  is a cross section schematic illustrating an iLED device with connection posts, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 3B  is a cross section schematic illustrating a pixel control device with connection posts, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 4A  is a cross section schematic illustrating an iLED display using the iLED device structure shown in  FIG. 2A or 2B  and the pixel control device structure shown in  FIG. 3B , according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 4B  is a cross section schematic illustrating an iLED display using the iLED device structure shown in  FIG. 3A  and the pixel control device structure shown in  FIG. 2D , according to illustrative embodiments; 
         FIG. 4C  is a cross section schematic illustrating an iLED display using the iLED device structure shown in  FIG. 3A  and the pixel control device structure shown in  FIG. 3B , according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 5A  is a perspective schematic corresponding to  FIG. 4C ; 
         FIG. 5B  is a perspective schematic of a structure with a pixel substrate and inverted iLED devices having connection posts, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 6  is a perspective schematic illustrating an iLED display corresponding to  FIG. 4C , according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 7  shows micrographs of an iLED device, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIG. 8  is a schematic layout of a pixel controller, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; 
         FIGS. 9-10  are flow charts of exemplary methods, according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention; and 
         FIGS. 11A-11C  are flow charts of exemplary methods that can be used in conjunction with the exemplary method shown in  FIG. 10 , according to illustrative embodiments of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     The features and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent from the detailed description set forth below when taken in conjunction with the drawings, in which like reference characters identify corresponding elements throughout. In the drawings, like reference numbers generally indicate identical, functionally similar, and/or structurally similar elements. The figures are not drawn to scale since the variation in size of various elements in the Figures is too great to permit depiction to scale. 
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated pixel structure for inorganic light-emitting diodes (iLEDs) pixels in flat-panel displays that have increased resolution and improved performance. Micro-transfer printed pixel control circuits made in monocrystalline silicon, such as CMOS, can provide higher-performance in less space over a display substrate and micro-transfer printed micro-iLEDs can provide increased color saturation, lifetime, and efficiency in a flat-panel display. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, the iLEDs and the pixel control circuits have different, separate, independent, and distinct substrates and are provided in different layers over the same area of a display substrate, thereby reducing the pixel area over the display substrate and facilitating increased display resolution. 
     Referring to the plan view schematic illustrations of  FIG. 1A  and the cross section schematic illustration of  FIGS. 1B and 1C  taken across cross section line A of  FIG. 1A , an exemplary embodiment of a high-resolution inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) display  99  comprises a display substrate  10  having a display area  18  in a display substrate layer  11 . A plurality of pixels  20  are disposed over, on, or in direct contact with the display substrate  10  in the display area  18 . Each pixel  20  comprises a pixel control device  30  and one or more inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) devices  40 , for example red-, green-, and blue-light-emitting iLED devices  40 R,  40 G, and  40 B, collectively iLED devices  40 . The pixel control device  30  controls the iLED devices  40  to emit light. 
     Each pixel control device  30  includes a pixel controller  38  that is disposed or formed in, on, or in contact with a pixel substrate  36  separate, independent, and distinct from the display substrate  10 . The iLED devices  40  each include an iLED  48  that is disposed or formed in or on an iLED substrate  43  separate, independent, and distinct from the display substrate  10  and from the pixel substrate  36 . The one or more iLED devices  40  have in combination an area over the display substrate smaller than the pixel controller  38  area over the display substrate and are disposed in direct contact with the pixel control device  30  or a layer disposed on or over the pixel controller  38 . For example, if the one or more iLED devices  40  include three iLED devices  40 , the combined area of the three iLED devices  40  over the display substrate  10  is smaller than the area of the pixel controller  38  over the display substrate  10 . A substrate that is separate, independent, and distinct from another substrate can be made separately at a different time or at a different location using different materials or methods than the other substrate. Each separate, independent, and distinct substrate can exist and be processed, transported, or manipulated independently of any other separate, independent, and distinct substrate. 
     The iLED  48  in each iLED device  40  is electrically controlled by the pixel controller  38  to emit light  60 , for example by controlling the iLED  48  with electrical signals transmitted from the pixel controller  38  to the iLED  48  through wires (not shown in  FIG. 1A, 1B , or  1 C). For clarity, in  FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C , the pixel control devices  30 , the pixel controllers  38 , and the pixel substrate  36  are illustrated as a common structure. Similarly, the iLED devices  40 , the iLEDs  48 , and the iLED substrate  43  are illustrated as a common structure. 
     An iLEDs  48  can be formed in or on an iLED substrate  43 , for example a semiconductor substrate or compound semiconductor substrate suitable for forming or providing inorganic light-emitting diodes so that the iLED substrate  43  is a semiconductor iLED substrate  43 . Likewise, a pixel controller  38  can be formed in or on a pixel substrate  36 , for example a semiconductor substrate suitable for forming integrated circuits so that the pixel substrate  36  is a semiconductor pixel substrate  36 . In some embodiments, and as discussed below, one or more iLEDs  48  can be formed in a semiconductor structure that is disposed on a separate dielectric iLED substrate  43  or one or more pixel controllers  38  can be formed in a semiconductor structure that is disposed on a separate dielectric pixel substrate  36 , or both. 
     In certain embodiments, iLED devices  40  include an iLED  48  and an iLED substrate  43 , and can include additional structures such as patterned dielectric layers, electrical contacts, and electrical conductors. Similarly, in certain embodiments, pixel control devices  30  include a pixel controller  38  and a pixel substrate  36 , and can include additional structures such as patterned dielectric layers, electrical contacts, and electrical conductors. 
     Referring to  FIGS. 1B and 1C , the display substrate  10  is provided in a display substrate layer  11 . The pixel control device  30  and pixel controller  38  are disposed over the display substrate layer  11  in a controller layer  31  different from the display substrate layer  11 . The iLED devices  40  and iLEDs  48  are disposed over the display substrate layer  11  in an iLED layer  41  different from the controller layer  31  and different from the display substrate layer  11 . A pixel control device  30  and one or more iLED devices  40  controlled by the pixel control device  30  can be, as shown in  FIGS. 1A, 1B, and 1C , disposed over the same area or portion of the display substrate  10  to form a vertical stack in a direction orthogonal to a horizontal surface of a display substrate  10 . The controller layer  31  and the iLED layer  41  together make up the pixel layer  21  of the pixels  20 . 
     In the exemplary embodiment shown in  FIG. 1B , the controller layer  31 , including the pixel control device  30 , is disposed between the iLED layer  41  and the display substrate layer  11 . In this embodiment, the iLEDs  48  of the iLED devices  40  are disposed to emit light  60  in a direction opposite the display substrate  10  and the display substrate  10  need not, but can, be transparent. 
     Referring to  FIG. 1C , the iLED layer  41 , including the iLED devices  40 , is disposed between the controller layer  31 , including the pixel control device  30 , and the display substrate layer  11 . In this embodiment, the display substrate  10  is at least partly transparent to the light  60  emitted by the iLEDs  48  of the iLED devices  40  (for example greater than 50%, 70%, 80%, 90%, or 95% transparent), and the iLEDs  48  are disposed to emit light  60  through the display substrate  10 . 
     Each pixel  20  can include a plurality of iLED devices  40  in an iLED layer  41 , for example a red iLED device  40 R including a red iLED  48  that emits red light, a green iLED device  40 G including a green iLED  48  that emits green light, and a blue iLED device  40 B including a blue iLED  48  that emits blue light, all of which in a pixel  20  are electrically connected to and under the control of a common pixel controller  38  and pixel control device  30 . 
     According to various embodiments of the present invention, a display substrate  10  can be any material having two opposing side and a surface suitable for supporting electrical components and integrated circuits, for example as found in the flat-panel display industry. Display substrates  10  can be flexible or rigid and can be or comprise, for example, one or more of glass, plastic, metal, or ceramic, polymer, resin, polyimide, PEN, PET, metal, metal foil, glass, a semiconductor, and sapphire. 
     In the exemplary embodiments of  FIGS. 1A and 1B , the pixel controller  38  of the pixel control devices  30  in pixels  20  can include a pixel control circuit  33  that responds to electrical signals from a display controller (not shown) external to the display area  18 , for example through wires or electrical connections formed or provided in, on, over, or in direct contact with the display substrate  10 . In response to the electrical signals from the external display controller, the pixel control circuit  33  controls the iLED devices  40  and iLEDs  48 , for example through wires or electrical connections formed or provided in, on, over, or in direct contact with the pixel substrate  36 . In response to the pixel control circuit  33 , the iLEDs  48  in the iLED devices  40  emit light  60 . 
     Pixel controllers  38  can be integrated circuits forming pixel control circuits  33  in a semiconductor structure or substrate, for example bare die semiconductor circuits made in monocrystalline silicon using integrated circuit and photolithographic materials and methods. The semiconductor can be, for example, silicon, CMOS, or a compound semiconductor. The pixel substrate  36  can be the semiconductor substrate in or on which the pixel control circuit  33  is disposed and can be an integrated circuit forming the pixel controller  38 . In some embodiments, a pixel controller  38  can be provided, for example as an integrated circuit or a bare semiconductor die, on a dielectric pixel substrate  36  such as a glass or plastic substrate. In some embodiments, a pixel control device  30  includes a pixel controller  38 , a pixel circuit  33 , and a pixel substrate  36 . In some embodiments, a pixel control device  30  can be disposed on a display substrate  10 , for example by micro-transfer printing. In particular, according to some embodiments of the present invention, a pixel control circuit  33  is not a thin-film circuit and a display substrate  10  does not include a thin-film semiconductor layer, whether amorphous, polysilicon, or crystalline. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, because a pixel controller  38  can be provided in a mono-crystalline semiconductor circuit, it has much higher performance than thin-film circuits. 
     Similarly, iLED devices  40  can, for example, include a compound semiconductor iLED substrate  43  or structure in or on which one or more iLEDs  48  are disposed or formed using integrated circuit and photolithographic methods and materials. An iLED substrate  43  can be a compound iLED semiconductor substrate. In some embodiments, an iLED substrate  43  can be a dielectric (for example including glass or plastic) on which one or more iLEDs  48  (for example formed in a compound semiconductor structure) are disposed. In certain embodiments, an iLED substrate  43 , pixel substrate  36 , and display substrate  10  are all separate, independent, and distinct and can be made at different times in different places using different processes and are provided in different layers. 
     Referring to  FIGS. 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 3A, and 3B , either the iLED devices  40  or the pixel control devices  30 , or both, can each also include a broken or separated tether  50  (e.g., a portion thereof). The iLED devices  40  or the pixel control devices  30  can be micro-transfer printed from a corresponding iLED device source wafer or pixel control device source wafer. The source wafers can have released components that are attached to anchor portions of the source wafer by tethers  50 , for example as described in U.S. Pat. No. 8,877,648. The tethers  50  are broken or separated, for example during a micro-transfer printing process, for example as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 8,877,648, 8,039,847, and 7,972,875, the disclosure of each of which is hereby incorporated in their entirety by reference. A broken tether  50  described herein also refers to and includes a separated tether  50 . 
     In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in the schematic cross section of  FIG. 2A , the iLED  48  is formed on an iLED device source wafer with one or more tethers  50  to make the micro-transfer printable iLED device  40 . The tether  50  can made of a semiconductor material that can be a part of the iLED substrate  43  or iLED  48 . In this embodiment, the iLED device source wafer is essentially the same as the iLED source wafer described with respect to  FIGS. 2B and 2C  below. 
     In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in the schematic cross section of  FIG. 2B , the iLED  48  is micro-transfer printed from an iLED source wafer to an iLED device source wafer, as indicated by the broken tether  50  of the iLED  48 . The tether  50  can made of a semiconductor material that can be a part of the iLED substrate  43  or iLED  48 . The iLED  48  on the iLED device source wafer is then insulated with a patterned dielectric layer  46  exposing vias that provide access to electrical iLED contacts  42  by pixel electrodes  34  and forming another tether  50  for micro-transfer printing the iLED device  40 . Portions of pixel electrodes  34  can optionally be patterned. 
     In the embodiment illustrated in the schematic cross section of  FIG. 2C , the iLED  48  is formed on an iLED device source wafer and then insulated with a patterned dielectric layer  46  exposing vias for iLED contacts  42  and forming a tether  50  for micro-transfer printing the iLED device  40 . Pixel electrodes  34  can optionally be patterned. 
     In the exemplary embodiment shown in  FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C , the iLED devices  40  can be micro-transfer printed from one or more iLED device source wafers and can include a semiconductor iLED substrate  43  in or on which the iLED  48  is formed. Each iLED device  40  has a tether  50  attached directly or indirectly to the iLEDs  48  and iLED device source wafer. In some embodiments, an iLED device  40  has one or more tethers  50  attached directly or indirectly to iLED(s). The semiconductor iLED substrate  43  can incorporate structures and materials that form the inorganic light-emitting diode  48  and is not separately distinguished in the Figures from the iLED  48 . iLED contacts  42  can be metalized contacts on an iLED  48  or simply designated portions of an iLED  48 . Pixel electrodes  34  provide electrical signals to an iLED  48  to cause the iLED  48  to emit light  60  (e.g., in accordance with the exemplary embodiments shown in  FIGS. 1B, 1C ). 
     Referring to  FIG. 2D , the iLED devices  40  of any one of  FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C  can be micro-transfer printed from the one or more iLED device source wafers onto a pixel dielectric layer  35  provided over the pixel controller  38  of the pixel control device  30 . A different iLED source wafer can be used for each iLED device  40  in a pixel  20  (for example when a pixel  20  has three iLED devices  40  each emitting a different color of light). If the iLED devices  40  of  FIG. 2A  are micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer, the patterned iLED dielectric structure  46  is formed when the iLED devices  40  are on the pixel controller  38 .  FIG. 2D  illustrates the iLED devices  40  of  FIG. 2C  micro-transfer printed onto the pixel control device  30 . In some embodiments, an iLED dielectric layer  46  and a pixel dielectric layer  35  are both patterned in a common step after iLED device(s)  40  are micro-transfer printed to a pixel control device  30 . iLED contacts  42  (e.g., as shown in  FIGS. 2A-2C ) of iLED device(s)  40  can be electrically connected to pixel contact(s)  32  of a pixel control device  30  using photolithographic processes, for example relatively high-resolution processes using evaporated or sputtered metals patterned using photoresist masks. 
     As shown in  FIG. 2D , pixel control devices  30  can include one or more tethers  50 . In some embodiments, pixel control devices  30  can be micro-transfer printed from a pixel controller source wafer. One or more tethers  50  can be a part of the pixel controller substrate  36  (not shown) or part of a dielectric material such as the patterned pixel dielectric layer  35  (as shown in  FIG. 2D ) of the pixel control device  30 . These variations are similar to those shown for the iLED device  40  in  FIGS. 2A and 2B , where a tether  50  is a part of or connected to an iLED substrate  43  or a tether  50  is a part of or connected to an iLED dielectric layer  46  for an iLED device  40 . As is true for the source wafers of iLED devices  40  shown in  FIGS. 2A-2C , a pixel controller source wafer can be substantially the same as a pixel control device source wafer. 
     A pixel dielectric layer  35  can be formed on or in direct contact with a pixel control circuit  33  of a pixel controller  38  and a iLED device  40  can be disposed on the pixel dielectric layer  35 . The pixel dielectric layer  35  insulates the iLED device  40  from the pixel control circuit  33 , for example when the pixel control device  30  includes a bare semiconductor die (that can be the pixel controller  38 ). In the exemplary embodiment shown in  FIG. 2D , the pixel substrate  36  is the semiconductor substrate on or in which the pixel control circuit  33  of the pixel controller  38  is formed and the pixel substrate  36  and the pixel controller  38  are not distinguished in the Figures. In some embodiments, pixel electrodes  34  are electrically connected to (i) iLED contacts  42  through vias in a iLED dielectric layer  46 , (ii) to pixel contacts  32  through vias in a pixel dielectric layer  35 , (iii) to a pixel control circuit  33  of a pixel control device  30  in a pixel  20 , or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, pixel contacts  32  are electrically connected to display substrate contacts  12 . Pixel contacts  32  can be, inter alia, metalized contacts on a pixel semiconductor substrate  38  or simply designated portions of a pixel semiconductor substrate  38 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 2D , a display substrate  10  can include display substrate contacts  12  connected to wires (not shown in  FIG. 2D , see  FIG. 6 ) on the display substrate  10  and a display controller (not shown) external to a display area  18  (see  FIG. 6 ) of the display substrate  10 . In some embodiments of the present invention, pixel control devices  30  are micro-transfer printed from one or more pixel control device source wafers on or in which the pixel control devices  30  are formed or disposed and then pixel contacts  32  are electrically connected to display substrate contacts  12  using photolithographic processes, for example relatively low-resolution printed-circuit board processes. 
     In some embodiments, iLED device(s)  40  are micro-transfer printed onto a pixel control device  30  when the pixel control device  30  is already disposed on a display substrate  10 . The iLED devices  40  can then be electrically connected to pixel contacts  32  on the pixel control device  30  and the pixel contacts  32  electrically connected to display substrate contacts  12  one the display substrate  10  in a common step. 
     In some embodiments, iLED device(s)  40  are micro-transfer printed onto a pixel control device  30  when the pixel control device  30  is part of (e.g., disposed on) a pixel control device source wafer and then the pixel control device  30 , with the interconnected iLED devices, is micro-transfer printed onto a display substrate  10 . In some embodiments, iLED device(s)  40  are electrically connected to a pixel control device  30  on a pixel control device source wafer using high-resolution integrated circuit wafer processes (semiconductor processes). A pixel control device  30  can then be electrically connected to a display substrate  10  using relatively low-resolution printed-circuit board processes. In some embodiments, iLED device(s)  40  are electrically connected to a pixel contacts  32  after pixel control devices  30  are micro-transfer printed to a display substrate  10  and the pixel contacts  32  are electrically connected to display substrate contacts  12  and iLED contacts  42  in a common step. 
     In the exemplary embodiment of  FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C , the iLED device  40  can include an iLED  48  formed in a semiconductor iLED substrate  43 , iLED contacts  42 , a patterned iLED dielectric layer  46  insulating the iLED  48  ( FIG. 2B ), and a broken tether  50  ( FIGS. 2B and 2C ). In some embodiments, a semiconductor iLED substrate  43  and an iLED  48  are substantially the same structure or substrate and are not distinguished in the Figures. An iLED  48  and semiconductor iLED substrate  43  or iLED device  40  can be an unpackaged or bare compound semiconductor structure with one or more doped layers or structure and formed as is known in the inorganic LED arts. Similarly, a pixel control device  30  can include a pixel controller  38  formed as the integrated circuit semiconductor substrate that is a semiconductor pixel substrate  36 , pixel contacts  32 , a patterned pixel dielectric layer  35  insulating the pixel controller  38 , and a broken tether  50 . In some embodiments, a semiconductor pixel substrate  36  and a pixel controller  38  can all be the same structure or substrate (and may not be distinguished in the Figures). A pixel controller  38 , semiconductor pixel substrate  36 , or pixel control device  30  can be an unpackaged or bare semiconductor structure with one or more doped layers or structures and formed as is known in the integrated circuit arts. 
     Referring to  FIG. 3A , the iLED device  40  also includes a dielectric iLED substrate  43 . In some embodiments, an iLED device  40  includes an iLED  48  that is disposed or formed, on, over, or in direct contact with a dielectric iLED substrate  43 . An iLED  48 , iLED contacts  42 , patterned iLED dielectric layer  46 , and broken tether  50  can be as illustrated in  FIG. 2A . In some embodiments, an iLED device  40  also includes a dielectric iLED substrate  43  on which the light-emitting diode  48  is disposed. A broken or separated tether  50  is also connected to or incorporated in the dielectric iLED substrate  43 . Furthermore, in some embodiments, an iLED  48  can be micro-transfer printed onto a dielectric iLED substrate  43  (e.g., the iLED  48  of  FIG. 2A ) and therefore the iLED  48  also includes one or more broken tethers  50 , so that at least two broken tethers  50  are present in an iLED device  40  (e.g., of  FIG. 3A . 
     The iLED device  40  of  FIG. 3A  also includes connection posts  49 . The connection posts  49  protrude through the dielectric iLED substrate  43  and are electrically connected to the iLED contacts  42  through vias in the dielectric iLED substrate  43  with iLED electrodes  44 . The iLED device  40  structure illustrated in  FIG. 3A  can be constructed by providing a wafer with a patterned sacrificial layer and etching the patterned sacrificial layer to form, for example, pyramidal connection post forms in the patterned sacrificial layer. Electrical conductors are patterned over the connection post forms and the dielectric iLED substrate  43  is disposed over the patterned electrical conductors and the patterned sacrificial layer. iLEDs  48  are provided over the dielectric iLED substrate  43 , either by micro-transfer printing the iLED  48  from an iLED source wafer on or in which the iLED  48  is made onto the dielectric iLED substrate  43  or by forming the iLED  48  on or over a semiconductor layer disposed on the dielectric iLED substrate  43  using integrated circuit and photolithographic materials and methods. Vias in the dielectric iLED substrate  43  are etched and the iLED electrodes  44  are patterned to electrically connect the connection posts  49  to the iLED contacts  42 . The sacrificial portions of the wafer are then removed and the iLED device  40  with connection posts  49  can be micro-transfer printed. 
     In the exemplary embodiment shown in  FIG. 3A , the iLED source wafer is readily distinguished from the iLED device source wafer by the connection posts  49 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 3B , the pixel control device  30  includes connection posts  49 , made in or on a dielectric layer forming the pixel substrate  36  using the same process as described with respect to  FIG. 3A , except that in this case the pixel controller  38  can be micro-transfer printed from a pixel controller source wafer onto the dielectric pixel substrate  36  and therefore also includes or is connected to a broken tether  50  (either a semiconductor tether  50  or a dielectric tether  50 , depending on the photolithographic processing performed on the pixel controller  38  on the pixel controller source wafer and as discussed with respect to  FIGS. 2A-2C  above). An adhesive layer can be provided and cured on a pixel controller  38  to facilitate micro-transfer printing iLED devices  40  onto a pixel control device  30  (not shown). 
     In the exemplary embodiment shown in  FIG. 3B , the pixel controller source wafer is readily distinguished from the pixel control device source wafer by the connection posts  49 . 
     The iLED device  40  and pixel control device  30  structures shown in  FIGS. 3A and 3B  can be combined in different ways in various embodiments of the present invention.  FIG. 2D  illustrates an exemplary embodiment in which the iLED devices  40  shown in  FIG. 2A or 2B  are disposed on the pixel control device  30  (for example by micro-transfer printing) and electrically connected using photolithographic methods and materials. The pixel control device  30  is disposed on the display substrate  10  (for example by micro-transfer printing) and electrically connected using photolithographic methods and materials. This exemplary embodiment does not include any connection posts  49 , either in the iLED device  40  or the pixel control device  30 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 4A , the iLED devices  40  of  FIG. 2A or 2B  are micro-transfer printed onto the pixel control device  30  of  FIG. 3B , for example onto pixel control devices  30  on a pixel control device source wafer, and photolithographically connected while on the pixel control device source wafer. In some embodiments, the iLED devices  40  shown in  FIG. 2A or 2B  are micro-transfer printed onto the pixel controller  38 , for example on a pixel controller source wafer, and the pixel controller  38  with the iLED devices  40  is micro-transfer printed from the pixel controller source wafer to a pixel control device source wafer to form the pixel control device  30  shown in  FIG. 3B . The iLED devices  40  can be photolithographically connected to the pixel controller  38  while on the pixel control device source wafer in the first case or while on the pixel controller source wafer in the second case. The pixel control device  30  is then micro-transfer printed from the pixel control device source wafer onto the display substrate  10  and the electrical connections between the pixel contacts  32  of the pixel control device  30  and the display substrate contacts  12  of the display substrate  10  are made with the connection posts  49  as a consequence of micro-transfer printing the pixel control device  30  so that no post-printing photolithographic process steps are necessary. An adhesive layer  37  can be provided and cured on the display substrate  10  to facilitate the micro-transfer printing process and electrical connection between the connection posts  49  and the display substrate contacts  12 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 4A , the pixel controllers  38  are micro-transfer printed from a pixel controller source wafer directly to a pixel control device source wafer. The iLEDs  48  are micro-transfer printed from an iLED source wafer directly to the pixel control device source wafer and electrically connected, for example with photolithography or using connection posts  49 . The pixel control devices  30 , with the iLEDs  48  (comprising the iLED devices  40 ) are micro-transfer printed from the pixel control device source wafer to the display substrate  10  and electrically connected. 
     Referring to  FIG. 4B , the iLED devices  40  illustrated in  FIG. 3A  are micro-transfer printed onto the pixel control device  30  as described with respect to  FIG. 2D , except that, in this case, the connection posts  49  of the iLED device  40  are contacted to the pixel contacts  32  so that no further photolithographic processes are necessary to electrically connect the iLED device  40  to the pixel control device  30 . An adhesive layer  37  can be provided and cured to facilitate the micro-transfer printing process and electrical connection between the connection posts  49  and the pixel contacts  32 . Thus, the structure of  FIG. 4B  can require fewer pixel controller process steps than the structure of  FIG. 2D . 
     In the exemplary embodiment shown in  FIG. 4B , the iLEDs  48  are micro-transfer printed from an iLED source wafer directly to an iLED device source wafer. The iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer to the pixel control device  30  of the pixel control device source wafer. The pixel control device  30  (including the pixel controller  38 ) is micro-transfer printed from the pixel control device source wafer directly to the display substrate  10  and electrically connected. In some embodiments, iLED device(s)  40  are micro-transfer printed from an iLED device source wafer to a pixel control device  30  after the pixel control device  30  is micro-transfer printed from a pixel control device source wafer to a display substrate  10 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 4C , the iLED devices  40  illustrated in  FIG. 3A  are micro-transfer printed onto the pixel control device  30  as described with respect to  FIG. 3B . In this exemplary embodiment, the connection posts  49  of the iLED device  40  are contacted to the pixel contacts  32  so that no further photolithographic processes are necessary to electrically connect the iLED device  40  to the pixel control device  30 . An adhesive layer  37  can be provided and cured on the pixel controller  38  to facilitate the micro-transfer printing process and electrical connection between the connection posts  49  and the pixel contacts  32 . The pixel control device  30  is then micro-transfer printed onto the display substrate  10  and the electrical connections between the pixel contacts  32  of the pixel control device  30  and the display substrate contacts  12  of the display substrate  10  are made with the connection posts  49  as a consequence of micro-transfer printing the pixel control device  30  so that no post-printing photolithographic process steps are necessary. An adhesive layer  37  can be provided and cured on the display substrate  10  to facilitate the micro-transfer printing process and electrical connection between the connection posts  49  and the display substrate contacts  12 . In some embodiments, iLED device(s)  40  in accordance with the exemplary embodiments shown in  FIG. 3A  are micro-transfer printed onto a pixel control device  30  after the pixel control device  30  is micro-transfer printed onto a display substrate  10 . 
     In the exemplary embodiment shown in  FIG. 4C , the pixel controllers  38  are micro-transfer printed from a pixel controller source wafer directly to a pixel control device source wafer. The iLEDs  48  are micro-transfer printed from an iLED source wafer directly to an iLED device source wafer. The iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer to the pixel control devices  30  of the pixel control device source wafer. In an alternative embodiment, the iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer to the pixel controllers  38  of the pixel controller source wafer and the pixel controllers  38  are micro-transfer printed from the pixel controller source wafer to the pixel control device source wafer. The pixel control devices  30 , with the iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed from the pixel control device source wafer to the display substrate  10  and electrically connected. 
       FIG. 5A  is a perspective illustrating iLED devices  40  micro-transfer printed onto a pixel control device  30  with connection posts  49  forming electrical connections between the iLED devices  40  and pixel contacts of the pixel control device  30 . In this exemplary embodiment, the iLED devices  40  are on a side of the pixel control device  30  opposite the connection posts  49  of the pixel control device  30 . Referring to  FIG. 5B , the iLED devices  40  are on the same side of the pixel control device  30  as the connection posts  49  of the pixel control device  30 . 
       FIG. 6  is a perspective of an exemplary iLED display  99  using the pixels  20  illustrated in  FIG. 5A . Each pixel  20  includes a pixel control device  30  with three iLED devices  40 , for example a red-light-emitting iLED device  40 R, green-light-emitting iLED device  40 G, and a blue-light-emitting iLED device  40 B, electrically connected to the pixel control device  30 . The pixels  20  are electrically connected to display substrate contacts  12  that are, in turn, electrically connected to display substrate electrodes  14  (for example row and column wires) that can be combined into display substrate buses  16  and connected to controllers (not shown) external to the display area  18 . In  FIG. 6 , the row wires are illustrated with dashed lines signifying that they are formed in a different layer over the display substrate  10  than the column wires and are not electrically connected to the column wires. 
     The micrograph of  FIG. 7  shows an iLED device  40  according to some embodiments of the present invention. The iLED device  40  includes two additional, non-functional posts provided to aid printing stability and adhesion to adhesive layer  37  and each iLED electrode  44  is connected to two connection posts  49  to improve stability and electrical connection. The iLEDs  48  are 8×15 microns in size. 
     The integrated circuit layout of  FIG. 8  shows a pixel control circuit  33  according to some embodiments of the present invention. The pixel control circuit  33  includes three pixel contacts  32 , one each for red, green, blue iLED devices  40 , a power connection, a ground connection, and column and row control lines.  FIG. 8  does not illustrate the pixel contacts  32  for the second LED control signal. The pixel controller  38  is a CMOS digital circuit using pulse width modulation in response to digital control signals supplied by externally controlled row and column lines and has a size of approximately 40×80 microns. 
     Referring to the flow diagram of  FIG. 9 , an exemplary method of the present invention, according to some embodiments, includes providing a pixel control device source wafer in step  100  and an iLED device source wafer in step  110 . The pixel control device source wafer has pixel control devices  30  and the iLED device source wafer has iLED devices  40 . The iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed in step  120  from the iLED device source wafer to the pixel control devices  30  of the pixel control device source wafer and electrically connected to the pixel control device  30  in step  130 , for example using photolithographic methods and materials. 
     As illustrated in the flow diagram of  FIG. 10 , an exemplary method of the present invention, according to some embodiments, includes providing a pixel control device source wafer in step  102 , for example but not necessarily including electrically connected pixel control devices  30  and iLEDs  40  as described with respect to step  130  of  FIG. 9 , and a display substrate  10 , for example including display substrate contacts  12 , in step  140 . The pixel control devices  30  are micro-transfer printed in step  150  from the pixel control device source wafer to the display substrate  10  and electrically connected to the display substrate contacts  12  in step  160 , for example using printed circuit board methods and materials. 
     Referring to  FIGS. 11A and 11B , the step  150  of micro-transfer printing the pixel control devices  30  from the pixel source wafer to the display substrate  10  is illustrated in alternative methods. As shown in  FIG. 11A , the iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer to the pixel control devices  30  of the pixel control device source wafer in step  120 . In step  132 , the pixel control devices  30  are electrically connected to the iLED devices  40 , for example using high-resolution photolithographic methods and materials or connection posts  49 . In step  152 , the electrically connected pixel control devices  30  and iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed onto the display substrate  10 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 11B , the pixel control devices  30  are micro-transfer printed from the pixel control device source wafer to the display substrate  10  in step  154 . The iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer to the pixel control devices  30  of the display substrate  10  in step  122 . In step  134 , the pixel control devices  30  are electrically connected to the iLED devices  40 , for example using low-resolution printed circuit board methods and materials. 
     In some embodiments, referring to  FIG. 11C , the iLED devices  40  are micro-transfer printed from the iLED device source wafer to the display substrate  10  in step  156 . The pixel control devices  30  are micro-transfer printed from the pixel control device source wafer onto the iLED devices  40  in step  122 , and electrically connected in step  136 , for example by using connection posts  49 . 
     Various embodiments of the present invention can include micro-transfer printable structures, source wafers on or in which micro-transfer printable structures are made, destination substrates on which micro-transfer printable structures are micro-transfer printed, or methods of making the micro-transfer printable structures, source wafers, or destination substrates. As used herein, a source wafer is a wafer from which devices or structures formed on or in the source wafer are micro-transfer printed to a destination substrate or wafer. 
     Each iLED  48  can be, according to various embodiments, a light-emitting diode (LED), a micro-LED, a laser, a diode laser, or a vertical cavity surface emitting laser and can include known light-emitting diode and/or laser materials and structures. iLEDs  48  can comprise an inorganic solid single-crystal direct bandgap light emitter, can emit visible light, such as red, green, blue, yellow, or cyan light, violet, or ultra-violet light, and can emit either coherent or incoherent light and can include phosphors, quantum dots, or other color conversion materials. iLEDs  48  used herein can have at least one of a width from 2 to 5 μm, 4 to 10 μm, 10 to 20 μm, or 20 to 50 μm, a length from 2 to 5 μm, 4 to 10 μm, 10 to 20 μm, or 20 to 50 μm, and a height from 2 to 5 μm, 4 to 10 μm, 10 to 20 μm, or 20 to 50 μm. 
     A discussion of micro-iLEDs  48  and micro-LED displays can be found in U.S. Pat. No. 9,520,537, issued Dec. 13, 2016, entitled Micro Assembled Micro LED Displays and Lighting Elements, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Micro-transfer methods are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 8,722,458, 7,622,367 and 8,506,867, the disclosure of each of which is hereby incorporated by reference. 
     Pixel control devices  30  in accordance with certain embodiments of the present invention can be constructed using compound micro-assembly techniques (e.g., can be compound micro-systems). A discussion of compound micro-assembly structures and methods is provided in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/822,868, filed Sep. 25, 2014, entitled Compound Micro Assembly Strategies and Devices, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. 
     In general, structures, features, and elements of the present invention can be made using photolithographic methods and materials found in the integrated circuit arts, and the light-emitting diode arts, for example including doped or undoped semiconductor materials, conductors, passivation layers, patterned dielectric layers, electrical contacts, and controllers. 
     As is understood by those skilled in the art, the terms “over” and “under” are relative terms and can be interchanged in reference to different orientations of the layers, elements, and substrates included in the present invention. For example, a first layer or device on a second layer, in some implementations means a first layer or device directly on and in contact with a second layer. In other implementations a first layer or device on a second layer includes a first layer or device and a second layer with another layer there between. 
     Having described certain implementations of embodiments, it will now become apparent to one of skill in the art that other implementations incorporating the concepts of the disclosure may be used. Therefore, the invention should not be limited to the described embodiment, but rather should be limited only by the spirit and scope of the following claims. 
     Throughout the description, where apparatus and systems are described as having, including, or comprising specific components, or where processes and methods are described as having, including, or comprising specific steps, it is contemplated that, additionally, there are apparatus, and systems of the disclosed technology that consist essentially of, or consist of, the recited components, and that there are processes and methods according to the disclosed technology that consist essentially of, or consist of, the recited processing steps. 
     It should be understood that the order of steps or order for performing certain action is immaterial so long as the disclosed technology remains operable. Moreover, two or more steps or actions in some circumstances (e.g., in some embodiments) can be conducted simultaneously. The invention has been described in detail with particular reference to certain embodiments thereof, but it will be understood that variations and modifications can be effected within the spirit and scope of the invention. 
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         A cross section 
           10  display substrate 
           11  display substrate layer 
           12  display substrate contact 
           14  display substrate electrode 
           16  display substrate bus 
           18  display area 
           20  pixel 
           21  pixel layer 
           30  pixel control device 
           31  controller layer 
           32  pixel contact 
           33  pixel control circuit 
           34  pixel electrode 
           35  pixel dielectric layer 
           36  pixel substrate 
           37  adhesive layer 
           38  pixel controller 
           40  inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) device 
           40 R red-light-emitting iLED device 
           40 G green-light-emitting iLED device 
           40 B blue-light-emitting iLED device 
           41  iLED layer 
           41  iLED contact 
           42  iLED substrate 
           43  iLED electrode 
           44  iLED dielectric layer 
           48  iLED 
           49  connection post 
           50  tether 
           60  light 
           99  iLED display 
           100  provide pixel source wafer step 
           102  provide pixel source wafer step 
           110  provide iLED source wafer step 
           120  micro-transfer print iLED onto pixel controller step 
           122  micro-transfer print pixel controller onto iLED step 
           130  electrically connect iLED to pixel controller step 
           132  electrically connect iLED to pixel controller step 
           134  electrically connect iLED to pixel controller step 
           136  electrically connect iLED to pixel controller step 
           140  provide display substrate step 
           150  micro-transfer print pixel controller onto display substrate step 
           152  micro-transfer print pixel controller onto display substrate step 
           154  micro-transfer print pixel controller onto display substrate step 
           156  micro-transfer print iLED onto display substrate step 
           160  electrically connect pixel controller to display substrate step