CA2535233A1 - Low-cost stable driving scheme for amoled displays - Google Patents

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CA2535233A1
CA2535233A1 CA002535233A CA2535233A CA2535233A1 CA 2535233 A1 CA2535233 A1 CA 2535233A1 CA 002535233 A CA002535233 A CA 002535233A CA 2535233 A CA2535233 A CA 2535233A CA 2535233 A1 CA2535233 A1 CA 2535233A1
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Nathan Arokia
Chaji G. Reza
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Priority to EP07701644.2A priority patent/EP1971975B1/en
Priority to CA 2570898 priority patent/CA2570898C/en
Priority to KR1020087019498A priority patent/KR20090006057A/en
Priority to CN2007800077270A priority patent/CN101395653B/en
Priority to EP12156251.6A priority patent/EP2458579B1/en
Priority to JP2008549724A priority patent/JP5164857B2/en
Priority to US11/651,099 priority patent/US8253665B2/en
Priority to TW096100837A priority patent/TWI415067B/en
Publication of CA2535233A1 publication Critical patent/CA2535233A1/en
Priority to US13/243,330 priority patent/US8564513B2/en
Priority to US13/413,517 priority patent/US8624808B2/en
Priority to US13/649,888 priority patent/US9269322B2/en
Priority to US14/095,583 priority patent/US9058775B2/en
Priority to US14/491,885 priority patent/US10229647B2/en
Priority to US14/993,174 priority patent/US9489891B2/en
Priority to US15/288,019 priority patent/US10262587B2/en
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Abstract

Disclosed is a technique to provide a stable AMOLED display despite the instability of backplane and OLED.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention generally relates to a light emitting display devices, and particularly, to a driving technique for AMOLEDs, to reduce the effects of differential aging of the pixel circuits significantly.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION

The disclosed technique stabilizes the pixel current by adjusting the gate voltage of the drive transistor.

ADVANTAGES
The new technique does not require any more driving cycle or driving circuitry than the ones used in AMLCD displays, resulting in a low cost application for portable devices including mobiles and PDAs. Also, it is insensitive to the temperature change and mechanical stress.

FIG. I (a, b): shows two circuit diagrams for the new driving technique.
FIG. 2 (a, b): shows two circuit diagrams with modified discharging elements.
FIG. 3: shows the simulation results of FIG.I (a) with and without discharging effect.
FIG. 4 (a-c): shows two circuit diagrams with modified discharging method and corresponding signal diagram.
FIG. 5: shows the simulation results of FIG 4(a).
FIG. 5: shows the simulation results of FIG 4(b).

FIG. 1 shows two pixel circuits that can provide constant averaged current over the frame time.
The pixel circuits comprise a switch T2, a drive transistor T1, a discharging transistor Td, OLED
10, and a storage capacitor 11.

During the programming cycle, node A is charged to a programming voltage through T2 while SEL is high. During the drive cycle, node A is discharged through Td. Since Td and Tl has the same bias condition, they experience the same threshold voltage shift.
Considering that the discharge time is a function of transconductance of Td, the discharge time increases as the threshold voltage of T1/Td increases. Therefore, the average current of the pixel over the frame time remains constant. Td should be a very weak transistor with short width and long channel length.

In FIG. 1 (b), an increase in the OLED 10 voltage will result in longer discharge time. Thus, the averaged pixel current will remain constant even after the OLED degradation.

FIG. 2 shows two pixel circuits with modified discharging element. The pixel circuits comprise two switches T2 and T3, a drive transistor T1, a discharging transistor Td, OLED 20, and a storage capacitor 21.

During the programming cycle, node A is charged to a programming voltage through T2 while SEL is high. During the drive cycle, node A is discharged through Td. Since Td and T1 has the same bias condition, they experience the same threshold voltage shift.
Considering that the discharge time is a function of transconductance of Td, the discharge time increases as the threshold voltage of T1/Td increases. Therefore, the average current of the pixel over the frame time remains constant. Here, T3 forces Td in the linear regime of operation, and so reduce feedback gain. Therefore, Td can be a unity transistor with the minimum channel length and width. VB can be shared between the pixels of the entire panel or it can be connected to node A.
Also, T3 can be replaced by a resistor.

In FIG. 2 (b), an increase in the OLED 20 voltage will result in longer discharge time. Thus, the averaged pixel current will remain constant even after the OLED degradation.

FIG. 3 shows the simulation results for the pixel circuit proposed in FIG.
1(a). It is obvious that the averaged pixel current is stable for the new driving scheme whereas it drops dramatically if Td is removed from the circuit (conventional 2-TFT pixel circuit).

FIG. 4 shows two pixel circuits with modified discharging method. The pixel circuits comprise two switches T2 and T3, a drive transistor T1, a discharging transistor Td, OLED 40, and a storage capacitor 41.

During the programming cycle, node A is charged to a programming voltage through T2 while SEL[n] is high. During the second operating cycle, node A is discharged through Td. Since Td and T1 has the same bias condition, they experience the same threshold voltage shift.
Considering that the discharge time is a function of transconductance of Td, the discharged voltage decreases as the threshold voltage of T1/Td increases. Therefore, gate voltage of the drive transistor T1 is adjusted accordingly. Here, SEL [n] is the address line of the nth row, and SEL[n+1] is the address line of (n+1)th row.

In FIG. 4 (b), an increase in the OLED 40 voltage will result in higher gate voltage. Thus, the pixel current remains constant.

FIG. 5 shows the simulation results for the pixel circuit depicted in FIG. 4 (a). It is seen that the pixel current is highly stable even after a 2-V shift in the threshold voltage of the drive transistor T1.

FIG. 6 shows the simulation results for the pixel circuit depicted in FIG. 4 (b). It is seen that the pixel current is highly stable even after a 2-V shift in the voltage of the OLED 11.

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CA002535233A CA2535233A1 (en) 2006-01-09 2006-01-09 Low-cost stable driving scheme for amoled displays
PCT/CA2007/000013 WO2007079572A1 (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-05 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
EP07701644.2A EP1971975B1 (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-05 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
CA 2570898 CA2570898C (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-05 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
KR1020087019498A KR20090006057A (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-05 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
CN2007800077270A CN101395653B (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-05 Method and display system for driving pixel circuit with luminous device
EP12156251.6A EP2458579B1 (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-05 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
JP2008549724A JP5164857B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-05 Driving method and display system for active matrix display circuit
TW096100837A TWI415067B (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-09 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US11/651,099 US8253665B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2007-01-09 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US13/243,330 US8564513B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2011-09-23 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US13/413,517 US8624808B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2012-03-06 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US13/649,888 US9269322B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2012-10-11 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US14/095,583 US9058775B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2013-12-03 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US14/491,885 US10229647B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2014-09-19 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US14/993,174 US9489891B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2016-01-12 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
US15/288,019 US10262587B2 (en) 2006-01-09 2016-10-07 Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit

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