Abstract
Driving technology for OLED display is quite different from those of other flat panel displays. OLED device can be defined as an electric diode with output emission that is almost linear to the output current. Most of active matrix OLED displays have used voltage current converting circuit in each pixel. However, it is very difficult to guarantee the value of the output current in the voltage current converter circuit that consists of TFTs (thin film transistors) on glass or plastic substrate. Therefore, how to accurately control the output current in each pixel is the most important design factor in the OLED displays.
There are two types of voltage current converter for pixels. Saturation region type pixel circuit is more practical than linear region type pixel circuit, because constant current driving is advantageous to constant voltage driving in order to achieve longer life time of OLED displays.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Akimoto H, Kageyama H, Shimizu Y, Awakura H, Nishitani S, Sato T (2002) An innovative pixel-driving scheme for 64-level gray-scale full-color active matrix OLED displays. In: SID 2002 digest, pp. 972–975
Dawson RMA, Shen Z, Furst DA, Connor S, Hsu J, Kane MG, Stewart RG, Ipri A, King CN, Green PJ, Flegal RT, Pearson S, Barrow WA, Dickey E, Ping K, Tang CW, Van Slyke S, Chen F, Shi J, Sturm JC, Lu MH (1998a) Design of improved pixel for a polysilicon active-matrix organic LED display. In: SID 1998 digest, pp 11–14
Dawson RMA, Shen Z, Furst DA, Connor S, Hsu J, Kane MG, Stewart RG, Ipri A, King CN, Green PJ, Flegal RT, Pearson S, Barrow WA, Dickey E, Ping K, Robinson S, Tang CW, Van Slyke S, Chen F, Shi J, Lu MH, Sturm JC (1998b) The impact of the transient response of organic light emitting diodes on the design of active matrix OLED displays. In: IEDM 1998, pp 875–878
Fish D, Young N, Deane S, Steer A, George D, Giraldo A, Lifka H, Gielkens O, Oepts W (2005) Optical feedback for AMOLED display compensation using LTPS and a-Si:H technologies. In: SID 05 digest, pp 1340–1343
Hong SK, Kim BK, Ha YM (2007) LTPS technology for improving the uniformity of AMOLEDs. In: SID 07 digest, pp 1366–1369
Inukai K, Kimura H, Mizukami M, Maruyama J, Murakami S, Koyama J, Konuma T, Yamazaki S (2000) 4.0-in. TFT-OLED displays and a novel digital driving method. In: SID 2000 digest, pp 924–927
Kim YW, Lee SR, Kwon OK, Kim KN, Park YS, Yang SA, Shin DY, Kim BH, Chung HK (2002a) A new pixel structure for AMOLED panel with 6-bit gray scale. Eurodisplay 2002, pp 613–616
Kim YW, Kwon OK, Kim KN, Shin DY, Kim BH, Chung HK (2002b) A new current programmable pixel structure for large-size and high-resolution AMOLEDs. In: IDW 02, pp 367–370,
Kimura M, Maeda H, Matsueda Y, Kobayashi H, Miyashita S, Shimoda T (2000) An area-ratio gray-scale method to achieve image uniformity in TFT-LEPDs. J SID 8(2):93–97
Kimura M, Hara Y, Kubo Y, Akai T, Saito R (2004) Comparison of driving methods for TFT-OLEDs and novel proposal using time ratio grayscale and current uniformization. In: IDW ‘04, pp 271–274
Komiya N, Oh CY, Eom KM, Kim YW, Park SC, Kim SW (2004) A 2.0-in. AMOLED panel with voltage programming pixel circuits and point scanning data driver circuits. In: IDW ‘04, pp 283–286
Matsueda Y, Kim HK, Chung HK (2006) Driving technologies for AMOLEDs. IMID/IDMC 2006, pp 393–398
Matsueda Y, Shin DY, Chung HK (2008) AMOLED technologies for uniform image and sufficient lifetime of image sticking. SID Symp Dig Tech Pap 39(1):9–12
Mizukami M, Inukai K, Yamagata H, Konuma T, Nishi T, Koyama J, Yamazaki S, Tsutsui T (2000) 6-bit digital VGA OLED. In: SID 2000 digest, pp 912–915
Peng DZ, Hsu HL, Nishikawa R (2007) Technologies for small and medium-sized AMOLED display. IDMC 2007, pp 270–273
Sasaoka T, Sekiya M, Yumoto A, Yamada J, Hirano T, Iwase Y, Yamada T, Ishibashi T, Mori T, Asano M, Tamura S, Urabe T (2001) A 13.0-inch AM-OLEd display with top emitting structure and adaptive current mode programmed pixel circuit (TAC). In: SID 01 digest, pp 384–387
Shimoda T, Ohshima H, Miyashita S, Kimura M, Ozawa T, Yudasaka I, Kanbe S, Kobayashi H, Friend RH, Burroughes JH, Towns CR (1998) High resolution light emitting polymer display driven by low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor with integrated driver. Asia Display 98:217–220
Shin DY, Matsueda Y, Chung HK (2005) New current demultiplexer TFT circuits for AMOLED. IEICE Trans Electron E88-C(11):2051–2056
Tagawa A, Numao T, Ohba T (2004) A novel digital-grayscale driving method with a multiple addressing sequence for AM-OLED displays. In: IDW ‘04, pp 279–282
Tam SW-B, Kimura M, Friend R, Shimoda T, Migliorato P (2002) A self-biased TFT-OLED pixel driver circuit. In: IDW 02, pp 243–246
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Section Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature
About this entry
Cite this entry
Matsueda, Y. (2022). Driving Technologies for OLED Display. In: Adachi, C., Hattori, R., Kaji, H., Tsujimura, T. (eds) Handbook of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55761-6_39-1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55761-6_39-1
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Tokyo
Print ISBN: 978-4-431-55761-6
Online ISBN: 978-4-431-55761-6
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Physics and AstronomyReference Module Physical and Materials ScienceReference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics