Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers
Dutch startup Morphotonics has raised €40 million to scale its nanoimprint lithography technology for use in smart glasses and data center optical components. The company leverages supply chain synergies with ASML to produce high-precision displays and waveguides.
Why it matters
Advancements in nanoimprint lithography are critical for the mass production of augmented reality hardware and high-speed data center infrastructure.
The Netherlands’ ASML is possibly the biggest name in lithography, using its machines to etch patterns onto silicon wafers inside a computer chip factory, known as a “fab.” Fellow Dutch company Morphotonics is smaller and works in a different corner of the same field: nanoimprint lithography, or NIL, a process used to manufacture the displays in AR glasses and other optics. It said it has benefited from ASML’s supply chain and uses many of the same vendors.
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