What McScience does

McScience Inc. is a privately held Korean test and measurement instrumentation company founded in April 2000 by Chul Oh Yoon, Ph.D., headquartered in Suwon with a secondary manufacturing site in Asan. The company designs and manufactures specialized hardware systems used to characterize, qualify, and inspect OLED and next-generation displays (OLED, QLED, Micro/Mini LED), solar cells and PV modules, rechargeable battery cells and packs, organic semiconductors and flexible electronics, and LED/lighting devices. Its portfolio is organized into five product families: System M (OLED/Display), System K (Solar/PV), System Q (Battery/Electrochemical), System T (Organic Semiconductor/Flexible Electronics), and System L (LED/Optical), complemented by SimuLight solar simulators, LUMO/HEXA spectroradiometers, and DeJign test jigs.

Core technical capabilities span I-V-L characterization, external/internal quantum efficiency measurement, electroluminescence and photoluminescence imaging, transient and frequency response analysis, in-line automated inspection with sorting, and long-term reliability testing under controlled temperature/humidity environments. Notable proprietary components include a 2009-granted patent on solar cell electroluminescence image inspection, a metadata compiler for automatic battery parameter extraction, and multi-channel test architectures supporting mass-production lines.

McScience operates a sales-led, direct-plus-distributor go-to-market model, selling custom-quoted systems (multi-year contracts, pricing undisclosed) to enterprise R&D labs and manufacturers. Revenue is generated through hardware sales of standardized and configured-to-order test systems. The company serves customers in over 100 countries, anchored by named engagements with Samsung in OLED and Taiwanese panel makers in AMOLED, with regional distribution partners in India (Edge Tech Scientific), China (Nanjing Bosheyonghuai), Vietnam (Nhat Long Technology), and Germany (HAN Vakuum). Reported milestones include USD 2 million in overseas sales by October 2013 and 10 billion KRW in cumulative sales by December 2019.

Name

McScience

Legal name

McScience Inc.

Website

https://mcscience.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

McScience Inc. designs and manufactures specialized test and measurement systems for OLED displays, solar cells, batteries, organic semiconductors, and LEDs. Founded in 2000 in South Korea, it sells custom hardware to enterprise R&D labs and manufacturers across 100+ countries via direct sales and regional distributors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electronic Test & Measurement Equipment

NAICS

Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (334515), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (3345), Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516)

SIC

Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825), Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829), Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)

akta.pro primary industry

Test & Measurement Equipment (Oscilloscopes, DAQ, signal analyzers, calibration benches) (IMAGAFAC)

Keywords

• Test measurement systems
• OLED display testing
• Solar cell characterization
• Battery test equipment
• Photovoltaic inspection

Headquarters

HQ city

Suwon

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Test Systems and Components Sales: McScience generates revenue through the sale of specialized test equipment and components for OLED, solar cell, battery, LED, and organic semiconductor characterization. Products include both standard systems and customized configurations for research and production applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

McScience Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells specialized test and measurement systems and components used by manufacturers and R&D laboratories to characterize OLED/QLED/Micro/Mini LED displays, solar cells and PV modules, rechargeable batteries (cell to pack), organic semiconductors/flexible electronics, and LED devices. Equipment includes I-V-L test systems, quantum efficiency measurement, lifetime testing, transient response analysis, impedance testing, electroluminescence imaging, in-line inspection systems, and formation systems.

Product overview

McScience is a test systems and components company offering specialized measurement and testing equipment across five core product lines: System M (OLED & Display) including M3000, M6000 series, M6100, M6200, M6400, M6600, M7000, M7500 for OLED/display characterization, lifetime testing, I-V-L measurements, transient response, impedance and reliability testing; System K (Solar Cell & Photovoltaics) including K3000, K3100, K3300, K3500, K3600, K5000, K5500, K5700 for solar cell conversion efficiency, quantum efficiency, imaging, in-line inspection, reliability testing, PV module testing and light soaking; System Q (Battery & Electrochemical) including Q3000, Q3100, Q3400, Q3500, Q4100, Q4500, Q1100 for battery cycle testing, parameter analysis, formation, inspection, pack testing and cyclic voltammetry; System T (Flexible Electronics & Organic Semiconductor) including T3000 PLUS, T4000, T5000 for time of flight, organic semiconductor parameter and TFT parameter testing; and System L (LED & Optical) including L3000, L6100 for photoluminescence and quantum efficiency measurement. The portfolio is complemented by SimuLight solar simulators, LUMO/HEXA spectroradiometers and DeJign test jigs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• M3000 OLED Parameter Test System Compact all-in-one system for OLED/display cell characterization, analyzing electrical and optical properties including I-V-L, viewing angle, color coordinates, spectrum, luminance imaging and uniformity for OLED, QLED, Micro and Mini LED.
• M6000 PIXX Imaging & Lifetime Test System Periodically measures electroluminescence image while driving display devices, evaluating luminance variation, structural deformation and uniformity through device lifecycle with scalable multi-channel capability.
• M6000 PLUS OLED Lifetime Test System Multi-channel OLED driving, emission and lifetime measurement system for testing OLED material capability to withstand continuous electrical source or environmental changes.
• M6100 OLED I-V-L Test System Standard OLED I-V-L test system using source-meter for electrical control and optical detector for luminance and color measurements under dark cabinet environment.
• M6200 OLED Transient EL/PL Test System Measures transient response characteristics of OLED devices including transient electroluminescence and time resolved photoluminescence for studying charge carrier dynamics.
• M6400 OLED Impedance Test System Analyzes electrical characteristics of OLED samples through impedance measurement, supporting C-F and C-V measurement for resistance elements, charge injection and mobility analysis.
• M6600 OLED I-V-L Reliability Test System Multi-channel OLED I-V-L test system providing periodic I-V-L measurement while driving OLED devices for reliability evaluation with recipe/sequence operation.
• M7000 Auto I-V-L Test System Multi-channel testing system with common optical detector that changes position automatically by 3-axis positioner for display device testing including lifetime measurement.
• M7500 In-Line I-V-L Test System Automated system measuring Current-Voltage-Luminance characteristics of display devices with in-line automatic control holding multiple samples for electrical and optical measurements.
• K3000 Solar Cell I-V Parameter Test System Standard test equipment for solar cell conversion efficiency measurement including solar simulator with various irradiation area, photovoltaic powermeter and test jig.
• K3100 Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency Test System Standard test equipment for solar cell quantum efficiency measurement calculating external quantum efficiency based on spectral response measurement with optional reflectance and internal quantum efficiency measurement.
• K3300 Solar Cell Imaging Test System Solar cell inspection tool providing various imaging solutions including electroluminescence, photoluminescence, thermal imaging, and light beam induced current measurement for defect detection.
• K3500 Solar Cell In-Line Inspection System Total solution for in-line solar cell inspection and automatic sorting based on I-V test, luminance imaging and optical inspection with automatic cell sorting capability.
• K3600 Solar Cell Reliability Test System Long-term reliability test system providing combined environment of temperature and humidity control chamber with solar simulator for periodic efficiency measurement under device aging.
• K5000 PV Module I-V Parameter Test System Test equipment for measuring large area solar module conversion efficiency including simulators for large area solar module inspection, solar power meters and measurement software.
• K5500 PV Module In-Line Inspection System High-speed in-line PV module inspection system using luminescence imaging for automatic visual inspection before and after lamination process.
• K5700 PV Module Light Soaking System Light soaking system for thin-film photovoltaic module performance enhancement and product stabilization with irradiation intensity control and temperature stabilization.
• Q3000 Battery Cycle Test System High-speed data acquisition battery cycle test system collecting time-variant internal resistance during conventional charge/discharge and cycle tests with sequence builder and metadata compiler.
• Q3100 Battery Parameter Test System All-in-one battery test system including advanced measurement tools such as Transient Response Analysis and Frequency Response Analysis with charge/discharge and cycle test capabilities.
• Q3400 Battery Formation System Multi-channel simultaneous testing device for activating and stabilizing batteries by charging and discharging for lithium-ion and various secondary battery production.
• Q3500 Battery Inspection System Measures internal resistance and open circuit voltage of battery cells with pass/fail classification, supporting cylindrical, pouch and prismatic battery types for automated in-line operating system integration.
• Q4100 Battery Pack Cycle Test System High-performance system for testing and evaluating battery modules or packs with cycle test and cell balancing test capability, supporting high current/high voltage test with high speed control and measurement.
• Q4500 Battery Pack Inspection System Automatic in-line inspection system for battery products in large-scale battery production facility integrating OCV monitoring, internal resistance, contact resistance, impedance, insulation test, optical inspection, weight and size measurement.
• Q1100 Cyclic Voltammetry Test System Multi-channel cyclic voltammetry test system for characterization of electrochemical systems with long-cycle repeated measurement for quick evaluation of electrochemical materials.
• T3000 PLUS Time of Flight Measurement System Time of flight measurement system for characterization of charge carrier mobility of organic semiconductor material using pulse laser and high-speed measurement electronics with optional low temperature cryogenic.
• T4000 Organic Semiconductor Parameter Test System Performs various experiments using LED light source and high-speed measurement electronics to obtain carrier lifetime, carrier mobility, diffusion coefficient and other characteristic parameters for OPV and OLED applications.
• T5000 TFT Parameter Test System Performs carrier mobility experiments for Thin-Film Transistor with user preferred parameters, providing consistent and precise measurement data with direct analysis in measurement software.
• L3000 Photoluminescence Measurement System Photoluminescence measurement system for Fluorescence/Phosphorescence, External/Internal Quantum Efficiency and Absorption/Reflection/Emission Spectrum measurement supporting PL film, solid, powder, liquid samples.
• L6100 Lighting Device Quantum Efficiency Measurement System External Quantum Efficiency measurement system for lighting devices with electrical and optical measurement including luminous efficiency, power efficiency, chromaticity coordinate and EL spectrum analysis.
• Rechargeable Battery Test System Rechargeable battery test system launched as a new product line in May 2015, expanding McScience's portfolio into battery and electrochemical testing.
• Qbism Spectrometer Spectrometer product launched in February 2016 for measurement applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• Serving customers in over 100 countries globally
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered regional.

• Edge Tech Scientific Pvt. Ltd.regionalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRegional distribution partner in India serving South Asian markets for McScience test systems and components.
• Nanjing Bosheyonghuai Electronics Science&Technology Co., Ltd.regionalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRegional distribution partner in China serving Chinese markets for McScience test systems and components.
• Nhat Long Technology Co., Ltd.regionalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRegional distribution partner in Vietnam serving Vietnamese markets for McScience test systems and components.
• HAN Vakuum GmbHregionalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRegional distribution partner in Germany serving European markets for McScience test systems and components.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Keysight Technologies: Global leader in electronic test and measurement instrumentation. Competes with McScience across I-V, impedance, and parametric measurement for OLED, solar, and semiconductor characterization, but at much broader scale and through standardized bench instruments.
• KLA Corporation: Global leader in process control and inspection for semiconductors and related manufacturing. Adjacent to McScience's in-line inspection systems (K3500/K5500 solar, M7500 display, Q4500 battery pack) but at vastly larger scale and broader process-control footprint.
• National Instruments (Emerson): Provider of modular test platforms and data acquisition systems widely used in R&D and production test of electronic devices. Comparable to McScience's System M/Q/K on data acquisition and modular measurement, though more software-defined.
• Yokogawa Electric: Japanese manufacturer of industrial test, measurement, and control instruments. Overlaps with McScience on precision electrical measurement, oscilloscope-class instrumentation, and battery/power system characterization at a much broader portfolio scale.

Direct peers

• Chroma ATE Inc. Taiwan-based manufacturer of automated test systems for batteries, power electronics, and displays. Direct overlap with McScience's System Q battery cycle/formation/pack test lines and adjacent overlap in display test.
• Hamamatsu Photonics: Japanese supplier of photonic detectors, spectrometers, and imaging systems. Comparable to McScience's L-series photoluminescence, spectroradiometer (LUMO/HEXA), and imaging test capabilities for LED, OLED, and solar characterization.
• MTI Corporation: Supplies solar cell testing and characterization equipment including solar simulators and I-V measurement systems. Closely comparable to McScience's System K (K3000, K3100, K3600) for photovoltaic R&D and reliability testing.
• Neware Technology: China-based specialist in battery testing equipment including cell and pack cyclers, formation systems, and BTS-grade testers. Direct overlap with McScience's System Q (Q3000, Q3100, Q3400, Q4100) for lithium-ion battery cell and pack testing.
• GW Instek (Good Will Instrument): Taiwan-based manufacturer of electronic test and measurement instruments including oscilloscopes, DC sources, and battery testers. Comparable to McScience's I-V-L measurement hardware and battery testing product lines at lower price points.
• ABET Technologies: Specialized manufacturer of solar simulators and light sources for photovoltaic testing. Comparable to McScience's SimuLight solar simulator line serving the same solar cell R&D and production customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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