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Design of Low Power LTPS AMOLED Panel and Pixel Compensation Circuit with High Aperture Ratio

고 개구율 화소보상회로를 갖는 저전력 LTPS AMOLED 패널 설계

  • Kang, Hong-Seok (School of Information, Communications & Electronic Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Woo, Doo-Hyung (School of Information, Communications & Electronic Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • 강홍석 (가톨릭대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 우두형 (가톨릭대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
  • Received : 2010.07.29
  • Accepted : 2010.09.29
  • Published : 2010.10.25
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Abstract

We proposed the new pixel compensation circuit with high aperture ratio and the driving method for the large-area, low-power AMOLED applications in this study. We designed with the low-temperature poly-silicon(LTPS) thin film transistors(TFTs) that has poor uniformity but good mobility and stability. To lower the error rate of the pixel circuit and to improve the aperture ratio for bottom emission method, we simplified the pixel compensation circuit. Because the proposed pixel compensation circuit with high aperture ratio has very low contrast ratio for conventional driving methods, we proposed the new driving method and circuit for high contrast ratio. Black data insertion was introduced to improve the characteristics for moving images. The pixel circuit was designed for 19.6" WXGA bottom-emission AMOLED panel, and the average aperture ratio of the pixel circuit is improved from 33.0% to 41.9%. For the TFT's $V_{TH}$ variation of ${\pm}0.2\;V$, the non-uniformity and contrast ratio of the designed panel was estimated under 6% and over 100000:1 respectively.

본 연구를 통해서 대 면적, 저 전력 AMOLED 용용에 적합한 고 개구율 픽셀 보상회로와 이에 대한 구동회로를 제안하였다. 균일도는 다소 떨어지지만 안정성과 이동도가 뛰어난 저온 다결정 실리콘(LTPS) 박막 트랜지스터(TFT)를 기반으로 설계했다. 픽셀의 불량률을 낮추고 배면발광방식에 적합하도록 픽셀 보상회로를 보다 간단하게 개선하여 고 개구율 특성을 갖도록 했다. 제안하는 고 개구율 픽셀 보상회로는 일반적인 구동방식을 사용할 경우 명암비에서 큰 손해를 볼 수가 있으므로, 명암비를 높게 유지하기 위한 구동방식 및 구동회로를 제안하여 검증하였다. 이와 더불어 동영상 특성을 개선하기 위해 black data insertion 방식을 구현할 수 있도록 설계했다. 배면발광방식의 19.6" WXGA AMOLED 패널에 대해 설계했으며, 픽셀의 평균 개구율은 41.9%로 기존에 비해 8.9% 증가했다. TFT의 $V_{TH}$ 편차가 ${\pm}0.2\;V$일 때, 패널의 불균일도와 명암비는 각각 6% 이하와 10만:1 이상으로 예측되었다.

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