• Journal of Information Display
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.1-5
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• 2004

We developed an a-Si TFT-LCD panel with integrated gate driver circuit using a standard 5-MASK process. To minimize the effect of the a-Si TFT current and LC's capacitance variation with temperature, we developed a new a-Si TFT circuit structure and minimized coupling capacitance by changing vertical architecture above gate driver circuit. Integration of gate driver circuit on glass substrate enables single chip and 3-side free panel structure in a-Si TFT-LCD of QVGA ($240{\times}320$) resolution. And using double ASG structure the dead space of TFT-LCD panel could be further decreased.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.395-398
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• 2004

We developed an a-Si TFT-LCD panel with integrated gate driver circuit using a standard 5-MASK process. To minimize the effect of the a-Si TFT current and LC's capacitance variation with temperature, we developed a new a-Si TFT circuit structure and minimized coupling capacitance by changing vertical architecture above gate driver circuit. Integration of gate driver circuit on glass substrate enables single chip and 3-side free panel structure in a-Si TFT-LCD of QVGA(240$^{\ast}$320) resolution. And using double ASG structure the dead space of TFT-LCD panel could be further decreased.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.822-824
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• 2007

This paper investigated a gate driver circuit with amorphous silicon for mobile TFT-LCD. In the conventional circuit, the fluctuation of the off-state voltage causes the fluctuation of gate line voltages in the panel and then image quality becomes worse. Newly designed gate driver circuit with dynamic switching inverter and carry out signal reduce the fluctuation of the off-state voltage because dynamic switching inverter is holding the off-state voltage and the delay of carry signal is reduced. The simulation results show that the proposed a-Si:H gate driver has low noise and high stability compared with the conventional one.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.272-278
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• 2008

This paper investigated the a-si:H gate driver with the stepwise gate signal. In 1-chip type mobile LCD application the stepwise gate signal for low power consumption can be used by adding simple switching circuit. The power consumption of the a-Si:H gate driver can be decreased by employing the stepwise gate signal in the conventional circuit. In conventional one, the effect of stepwise gate signal can decrease slew rate and increase the fluctuation of gate-off state voltage, In order to increase the slew rate and decrease the gate off state fluctuation, we proposed a new a-Si:H TFT gate driver circuit. The simulation data of the new circuit show that the slew rate and the gate-off state fluctuation are improved, so the circuit can work reliably.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1176-1178
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• 2007

A novel integrated a-Si:H gate driver with high reliability has been designed and simulated. Since the a-Si:H TFT is easily degraded by gate bias stress, we should optimize the circuit considering the threshold voltage shift. The conventional circuit shows voltage drop at the input stage by threshold voltage of the TFT, however, the proposed circuit dose not shows voltage drop and keeps constant regardless of threshold voltage shift of the TFT.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2005

a-Si TFT는 TFT-LCD의 화소 스위칭(swiching) 소자로 폭넓게 이용되고 있다. 현재는 a-Si을 이용하여 gate drive IC를 기판에 집적하는 기술이 연구, 적용되고 있는데 이때 가장 큰 제약은 문턱 전압의 이동이다. 펄스(pulse)형태로 인가되는 gate 전압에 의한 문턱 전압 이동은 a-Si:H gate에 인가되는 펄스의 크기, duty cycle, drain pulse의 크기 및 동작 온도에 기인하며 실험결과를 통해 입증된다. 초기의 DC Stress 측정 Data를 이용하여 문턱전압이동을 모델링/시뮬레이션한 결과 a-Si:H gate 회로설계 및 펄스 조건에 따라 stress시간에 따른 gate의 출력 파형 예측이 가능하고 상온에서 Von=21V를 인가한 결과, 약 4년후에서 시프트레지스터 출력 파형이 열화되기 시작한다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1168-1171
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• 2007

Integrating systems on TFT-LCD panels is more and more popular for the mobile display application. However, it may not be necessary to use LTPS TFT devices. A-Si TFTs are used to integrate systems on TFT-LCD panels, especially scan (gate) drivers. To further reduce the chip size of driver IC, the triplegate pixel structure is developed. Therefore, the number of the source lines is reduced to 1/3 times.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.470-473
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• 2009

We have developed a novel driving method, Six times Rate Driving(SRD) for the purpose of making cost competitive TFT-LCD. By applying SRD method to an a-Si TFT-LCD, the driving rate was increased six times as it was named but the number of data lines and so its D-Ics were reduced to one sixth of the conventional one which resulted in the cost saving of that much. We also newly designed the gate driver in order to avoid any expansion of the bezel width caused by applying SRD. Our newly developed driving technology, SRD was successfully applied to 7.0-inch WSVGA (1024 ${\times}$ 600) TFT-LCD which can be driven with only one data D-IC and here introduced.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.33-36
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• 2009

A new hybrid silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) fabrication process using the DPSS laser crystallization technique was developed in this study to realize low-temperature poly-Si (LTPS) and a-Si:H TFTs on the same substrate as a backplane of the active-matrix liquid crystal flat-panel display (AMLCD). LTPS TFTs were integrated into the peripheral area of the activematrix LCD panel for the gate driver circuit, and a-Si:H TFTs were used as a switching device of the pixel electrode in the active area. The technology was developed based on the current a-Si:H TFT fabrication process in the bottom-gate, back-channel etch-type configuration. The ion-doping and activation processes, which are required in the conventional LTPS technology, were thus not introduced, and the field effect mobility values of $4\sim5cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ and $0.5cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ for the LTPS and a-Si:H TFTs, respectively, were obtained. The application of this technology was demonstrated on the 14.1" WXGA+(1440$\times$900) AMLCD panel, and a smaller area, lower power consumption, higher reliability, and lower photosensitivity were realized in the gate driver circuit that was fabricated in this process compared with the a-Si:H TFT gate driver integration circuit

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.583-586
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• 2009

A 14.1" XGA (1024${\times}$768) LCD panel with Integrated Black Data Insertion (IBDI) has been world first developed successfully based on the integrated amorphous Silicon TFT gate driver which we previously introduced. The notable features compared with the conventional integrated a-Si TFT gate driver circuit are that the circuit consists of Dual buffer, Carry buffer structure, and Q-node cross charging for stable signal scanning characteristic and prevention of coupling between signal lines.