High-speed low-power voltage-programmed driving scheme for AMOLED displays

A new voltage-programmed driving scheme named the mixed parallel addressing scheme is presented for AMOLED displays, in which one compensation interval can be divided into the first compensation frame and the consequent N-1 post-compensation frames without periods of initialization and threshold voltage detection. The proposed driving scheme has the advantages of both high speed and low driving power due to the mixture of the pipeline technology and the threshold voltage one-time detection technology. Corresponding to the proposed driving scheme, we also propose a new voltage-programmed compensation pixel circuit, which consists of five TFTs and two capacitors(5T2C). In-Zn-O thin-film transistors(IZO TFTs) are used to build the proposed 5T2C pixel circuit. It is shown that the non-uniformity of the proposed pixel circuit is considerably reduced compared with that of the conventional 2T1C pixel circuit. The number of frames(N) preserved in the proposed driving scheme are measured and can be up to 35 with the variation of the OLED current remaining in an acceptable range. Moreover, the proposed voltage-programmed driving scheme can be more valuable for an AMOLED display with high resolution, and may also be applied to other compensation pixel circuits.     

大尺寸金属氧化物TFT面板设计分析

根据最基本的2T1C像素电路,建立了TFT各参数与AMOLED面板限制因素的计算模型。详细分析了AMOLED显示尺寸与TFT迁移率、金属方块电阻、刷新频率以及器件结构的关系。在大尺寸高分辨率AMOLED面板设计中,信号线RC延迟是主要限制因素。TFT迁移率的提高在一定范围内对大尺寸显示面板设计有利,降低RC延迟是实现大尺寸、高分辨率、高刷新频率显示的关键技术。开发铜布线技术和低寄生电容TFT器件结构是未来大尺寸AMOLED显示的关键技术。     

基于金属氧化物薄膜晶体管的高速行集成驱动电路

本文提出了一种基于非晶铟锌氧化物薄膜晶体管的高速行集成驱动电路,该电路采用输入级复用的驱动结构,一级输入级驱动三级输出级,不仅减少电路输入级2/3晶体管的数量,实现AMOLED或AMLCD显示屏的窄边框显示,而且输入级的工作频率是输出级的1/3,该结构适用于高速驱动电路.电路内部产生了三次电容耦合效应,每一次电容耦合效应都可以提高相应节点的电压,保证了信号完整传输.输出级采用了一个二极管接法的薄膜晶体管,该薄膜晶体管连接了输出级的控制信号和上拉薄膜晶体管的栅极,利用的每一级输出级输出时所产生的电容耦合效应,增加上拉薄膜晶体管的栅极电压,有效地提高电路输出能力和工作速度.仿真表明电路能够输出脉宽达到4μs速度.最后成功地制作了10级行集成驱动电路,包括10级输入级电路和30级输出级电路,负载为R=10k?和C=100pF,实验结果验证,该电路满足4k×8k显示屏在120 Hz刷新频率下的驱动需求.