具有顶部发光结构的AMOLED交流驱动电路

A new voltage programmed pixel circuit with top emission design for active-matrix organic lightemitting diode(AMOLED) displays is presented and verified by HSPICE simulations.The proposed pixel circuit consists of five poly-Si TFTs,and can effectively compensate for the threshold voltage variation of the driving TFT.Meanwhile,the proposed pixel circuit offers an AC driving mode for the OLED by the two adjacent pulse voltage sources,which can suppress the degradation of the OLED.Moreover,a high contrast ratio can be achieved by the proposed pixel circuit since the OLED does not emit any light except for the emission period.     

基于低温多晶硅薄膜晶体管的AMOLED交流像素电路

This work presents a new voltage programmed pixel circuit for an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode(AMOLED) display.The proposed pixel circuit consists of six low temperature polycrystalline silicon thinfilm transistors(LTPS TFTs),one storage capacitor,and one OLED,and is verified by simulation work using HSPICE software.Besides effectively compensating for the threshold voltage variation of the driving TFT and OLED,the proposed pixel circuit offers an AC driving mode for the OLED,which can suppress the degradation of the OLED.Moreover,a high contrast ratio can be achieved by the proposed pixel circuit since the OLED does not emit any light except for the emission period.     

Design of a 16 gray scales 320×240 pixels OLED-on-silicon driving circuit

A 320×240 pixel organic-light-emitfing-diode-on-silicon （OLEDoS） driving circuit is implemented using the standard 0.5μm CMOS process of CSMC. It gives 16 gray scales with integrated 4 bit D/A converters. A three- transistor voltage-programmed OLED pixel driver is proposed, which can realize the very small current driving required for the OLEDoS microdisplay. Both the D/A converter and the pixel driver are implemented with pMOS devices. The pass-transistor and capacitance in the OLED pixel driver can be used to sample the output of the D/A converter. An additional pMOS is added to OLED pixel driver, which is used to control the D/A converter operating only when one row is on. This can reduce the circuit＇s power consumption. This driving circuit can work properly in a frame frequency of 50 Hz, and the final layout of this circuit is given. The pixel area is 28.4 × 28.4μm^2 and the display area is 10.7 × 8.0 mm^2 （the diagonal is about 13 mm）. The measured pixel gray scale voltage shows that the function of the driver circuit is correct, and the power consumption of the chip is about 350 mW.     

一种用于高压降压型转换器的高精度强驱动能力驱动电路

This paper presents a novel driving circuit for the high-side switch of high voltage buck regulators.A 40 V P-channel lateral double-diffused metal–oxide–semiconductor device whose drain–source and drain–gate can resist high voltage, but whose source–gate must be less than 5 V, is used as the high-side switch. The proposed driving circuit provides a stable and accurate 5 V driving voltage for protecting the high-side switch from breakdown and achieving low on-resistance and simple loop stability design. Furthermore, the driving circuit with excellent driving capability decreases the switching loss and dead time is also developed to reduce the shoot-through current loss. Therefore, power efficiency is greatly improved. An asynchronous buck regulator with the proposed technique has been successfully fabricated by a 0.35 m CDMOS technology. From the results, compared with the accuracy of16.38% of the driving voltage in conventional design, a high accuracy of 1.38% is achieved in this work. Moreover,power efficiency is up to 95% at 12 V input and 5 V output.     

Luminance uniformity compensation for OLED panels based on FPGA

Aiming at the problem of luminance uniformity for organic lighting-emitting diode （OLED） panels, a new brightness calculating method based on bilinear interpolation is proposed. The irradiance time of each pixel reaching the same lumi- nance is figured out by Matlab. Adopting the 64×32-pixel, single color and passive matrix OLED panel as adjusting luminance uniformity panel, a new circuit compensating scheme based on FPGA is designed. VH L is used to make each pixel＇s irradiance time in one flame period written in program. The irradiance brightness is controlled by changing its irradiance time, and finally, luminance compensation of the panel is realized. The simulation result indicates that the design is reasonable.     

Electroluminescence Gray Scale Display Driving Method and Circuit

The increasing use of color terminals for personal computers has raised a demand for video graphic adapter（VGA）-format panel displays. Since only monochrome（ZnS ： Mn） electroluminescence（EL） displays of suitable size and speed are available, lack of colors has to be replaced by grayscale in the first place. There are two basic driving methods to achieve grayscale in thin-film EL displays： pulse amplitude modulation（PAM） method and pulse width modulation（PWM） method. But there are serious disadvantages of the two traditional methods. For the former method, the high voltage PAM ICs are too expensive to produce the grayscale EL display in bulks and the driver integrated circuit（IC） is complex. Though the PWM method has good grayscale display quality, the hardware implementation is too complex. A new driving method with which the width and the amplitude of the pulse can be modulated and simultaneously the challenge can be solved efficaciously is presented.     

用于TFT-LCD驱动芯片的省面积高效率内置电荷泵

An area-saving and high power efficiency charge pump is proposed, and methods for optimizing the operation frequency and improving the power efficiency are discussed. Through sharing coupling capacitors the proposed charge pump realizes two DC-DC functions in one circuit, which can generate both positive and negative high voltages. Due to sharing of the coupling capacitors, as compared with a previous charge pump designed by us for a TFT-LCD driver IC, the die area and the amounts of necessary external capacitors are reduced by 40% and 33%, respectively. Furthermore, the charge pump＇s power efficiency is improved by 8% as a result of employing the new topology. The designed circuit has been successfully applied in a one-chip TFT-LCD driver IC implemented in a 0.18 μm low/mid/high mixed-voltage CMOS process.     

A dynamic range extension scheme applied to a TDI CMOS image sensor

A dynamic range extension scheme applied to a time delay integration （TDI） CMOS image sensor （CIS） is presented. Two types of pixels with higher and lower conversion gain are adopted in the pixel array, which are suitable for capturing images in low and high illumination respectively. By fusing the two kinds of pixels＇ output signals in the process of TDI accumulation, a high dynamic range image can be achieved. Compared with the traditional multiple integration technique, no photoelectrons generated during the exposure time are discarded by the reset operation, and thus a higher level of signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） can be retained. A prototype chip with an 8 × 8 pixel array is implemented in a 0.18 μm CIS process, and the pixel size is 15 × 15 μm2. Test results show that a 76 dB dynamic range can be achieved in 8-stage TDI mode, when the SNR boost can reach 7.26 dB at 90.8 lux.     

通用可编程多量子阱空间光调制器驱动电路

A universal programmable multi-quantum-well（MQW） spatial light modulator（SLM） driving circuit is developed.With a twice scanning, it can generate programmable signals to drive a non-linear MQW SLM by using a software preprocessing unit.By adjusting the switching network of the driving circuit, this circuit can reduce the switching noise and improve the output precision.The chip test results show that the driving voltage can swing from 0 to VDD, and its resolution could be close to 256 with a pixel area of only 65 × 65 μm2.     

An advanced SEU tolerant latch based on error detection

This paper proposes a latch that can mitigate SEUs via an error detection circuit.The error detection circuit is hardened by a C-element and a stacked PMOS.In the hold state,a particle strikes the latch or the error detection circuit may cause a fault logic state of the circuit.The error detection circuit can detect the upset node in the latch and the fault output will be corrected.The upset node in the error detection circuit can be corrected by the Celement.The power dissipation and propagation delay of the proposed latch are analyzed by HSPICE simulations.The proposed latch consumes about 77.5％ less energy and 33.1％ less propagation delay than the triple modular redundancy (TMR) latch.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed latch can mitigate SEU effectively.     

A New Poly-Si TFT Current-Mirror Pixel for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode

A new poly-Si thin-film-transistor (TFT) current-mirror-active-matrix-organic-light-emitting-diode (AMOLED) pixel, which successfully compensates for the variation of the threshold voltage as well as mobility in the excimer laser annealed poly-Si TFT pixel, is designed and fabricated. The OLED current$(I_ OLED)$of the proposed pixel does not depend on the operating temperature. When the temperature of pixel is increased from 27$^circhboxC$to 60$^circhboxC$, the$I_ OLED$of the new pixel circuit composed of four TFTs and one capacitor increases only about 1.5%, while that of a conventional pixel composed of two TFTs and one capacitor increases about 37%. At room temperature, nonuniformity of the$I_ OLED$in the proposed circuit was also considerably suppressed at around 9%. We have successfully fabricated a 1.2-in AMOLED panel$(hbox96 times hbox96 times hboxred green blue)$to evaluate the performance of the proposed pixel. A troublesome residual image caused by the hysteresis phenomenon of the poly-Si TFT was almost eliminated in the proposed AMOLED panel as a result of current programming.     

High-speed low-power voltage-programmed driving scheme for AMOLED displays

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.     

Improvement of pixel electrode circuit for active-matrix OLED by application of reversed-biased voltage

In this paper, an improved ac pixel electrode circuit for active-matrix organic light-emitting display (AMOLED) has been proposed by adding a thin-film transistor. This circuit can provide an ac driving mode for AMOLED and makes the OLED in a reversed-biased voltage during the reverse cycle. And a circuit design for understanding ac driving mode was presented. The circuit simulation results indicate that this circuit is feasible. The circuit structure is practical for the AMOLED pixel driver; it can improve the performance of OLED.     

A new pixel circuit for active matrix organic light emitting diodes

We propose a new thin-film-transistor (TFT) pixel circuit for active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) composed of four TFTs and two capacitors. The simulation results, based on the device performances measured for an OLED and a poly-Si TFT, indicate that the proposed circuit has high immunity to the variation of poly-Si TFT characteristics     

基于P-Type多晶硅TFT技术的集成型有源OLED驱动电路

低温多晶硅(LTPS:Low-temperature poly-Si)技术已经成为薄膜晶体管(TFT:thin film transistor)制作中最具吸引力的技术,并应用在AMOLED显示器中.P-type 技术能够简化 TFT 的制作过程.本文提出了一种应用 p-type 多晶硅 TFT的 AMOLED 驱动电路结构,包括栅极驱动器、数据驱动器以及像素阵列.数据驱动器采用分块方法,使得显示屏的输出线数大大减少.作者采用一种改进的 p-type 移位寄存器实现逐行选通的功能,并采用由 4 个 p-type 反相器级联构成的缓冲器来提高电路的驱动能力.为了验证上述电路结构的正确性,作者采用 HSPICE 软件进行仿真分析.结果表明,电路工作正常.利用韩国汉城国立大学及 Neo Poly 公司在多晶硅制作方面的优势,我们已经合作完成了应用上述电路结构的分辨率为96×3×128的有源 OLED 的制作.     

A new a-Si:H TFT pixel circuit compensating the threshold voltage shift of a-Si:H TFT and OLED for active matrix OLED

We propose a new hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin-film transistor (a-Si:H TFT) pixel circuit for an active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) employing a voltage programming. The proposed a-Si:H TFT pixel circuit, which consists of five switching TFTs, one driving TFT, and one capacitor, successfully minimizes a decrease of OLED current caused by threshold voltage degradation of a-Si:H TFT and OLED. Our experimental results, based on the bias-temperature stress, exhibit that the output current for OLED is decreased by 7% in the proposed pixel, while it is decreased by 28% in the conventional 2-TFT pixel.     

Low-Power Low-Cost Voltage-Programmed a-Si:H AMOLED Display for Portable Devices

This paper presents a driving scheme to achieve highly stable low-power amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. Although the conventional 2-thin-film transistor (TFT) a-Si:H AMOLED display has demonstrated interesting features, including simplicity, it is prone to growing nonuniformity due to the temporal instability of the a-Si:H material. Several compensating techniques have been proposed to control the nonuniformity, but they tend to compromise the key attributes of the simple 2-TFT display such as low power consumption, high yield, high aperture ratio, low implementation cost, and fast programming. For mobile applications which have tight constrains on power consumption, cost, and escalating resolution requirements, we propose a new driving and addressing scheme that not only improves the backplane stability, but also compensates for the OLED luminance degradation while maintaining the attractive features of the simple 2-TFT pixel circuit. The overhead in power consumption and implementation cost is reduced by over 90% compared to existing compensation driving schemes.     

一种支持OLED亮度补偿的电流型PWM像素驱动电路

OLED(organic light-emitting diode,OLED)微显示器长时间工作在高对比度、高亮度的状态下,OLED像素衰退不一致,发光亮度衰退也不一致,会产生残影现象。因此,提出了一种改进的电流型PWM像素驱动电路,保持了对OLED像素衰退补偿效果,同时可以读出OLED阳极电压,计算得到OLED衰退信息,以便于对OLED亮度衰退进行有效的补偿。文章中分析了改进的电流型PWM驱动电路结构,及其对OLED衰退补偿和亮度补偿的原理。通过模拟仿真,得到几个影响OLED衰退补偿效果的关键参数。当OLED像素衰退电阻R_oled小于40 MΩ时,该电流型PWM驱动电路电流衰退度与传统2T1C驱动电路相比,只为其衰退度的50%。