High-speed low-power voltage-programmed driving scheme for AMOLED displays*Project supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (No. 2015CB655000) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61204089, 61306099, 61036007, 51173049, U1301243), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 2013ZZ0046, 2014ZZ0028). (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xia 夏, Xingheng 兴衡; Wu 吴, Weijing 为敬; Song 宋, Xiaofeng 小峰1; Li 李, Guanming 冠明; Zhou 周, Lei 雷; Zhang 张, Lirong 立荣; Xu 徐, Miao 苗; Wang 王, Lei 磊; Peng 彭, Junbiao 俊彪
• Is Part Of: Journal of semiconductors. Volume 36:Number 12(2015:Dec.)
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: 2520; active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) -- low power -- pixel circuit -- mixed parallel addressing; Semiconductors -- Periodicals; 621.38152
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/36/12/125005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1674-4926

Abstract

Abstract: 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.