New Low-Voltage Driving Compensating Pixel Circuit Based on High-Mobility Amorphous Indium-Zinc-Tin-Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for High-Resolution Portable Active-Matrix OLED Displays
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. TFT Fabrication and Characterization
3. Proposed Pixel Circuit Operation
3.1. Reset
3.2. Compensation
3.3. Data Input
3.4. Emission
4. Results and Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Reference | Driving Voltage (VDD & VSS) | VTH_DTFT Variation Error Rate | OLED Compensation | Eliminate in I-R Drop of VDD |
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This study | VDD = 4.5 V VSS = 0 V | 4.97% (ΔVTH = ±1 V) | O | O |
[17] | VDD = 15 V VSS = 0 V | 7% (ΔVTH = ±2 V) | X | O |
[18] | VDD = 15 ~ −5 V VSS = 0 V | 9.4% (ΔVTH = ±2 V) | O | O |
[19] | VDD = 9.75 V VSS = −7 V | 4.14% (ΔVTH = +1 V) | O | O |
[20] | VDD = 13 V VSS = −7 V | 4.42% (ΔVTH = ±2 V) | O | O |
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Fan, C.-L.; Tsao, H.-Y.; Chen, C.-Y.; Chou, P.-C.; Lin, W.-Y. New Low-Voltage Driving Compensating Pixel Circuit Based on High-Mobility Amorphous Indium-Zinc-Tin-Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for High-Resolution Portable Active-Matrix OLED Displays. Coatings 2020, 10, 1004. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10101004
Fan C-L, Tsao H-Y, Chen C-Y, Chou P-C, Lin W-Y. New Low-Voltage Driving Compensating Pixel Circuit Based on High-Mobility Amorphous Indium-Zinc-Tin-Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for High-Resolution Portable Active-Matrix OLED Displays. Coatings. 2020; 10(10):1004. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10101004
Chicago/Turabian StyleFan, Ching-Lin, Hou-Yen Tsao, Chun-Yuan Chen, Pei-Chieh Chou, and Wei-Yu Lin. 2020. "New Low-Voltage Driving Compensating Pixel Circuit Based on High-Mobility Amorphous Indium-Zinc-Tin-Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for High-Resolution Portable Active-Matrix OLED Displays" Coatings 10, no. 10: 1004. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10101004