Hybrid driver IC for real-time TFT non-uniformity compensation of ultra high-definition AMOLED display

An UHD AMOLED display driver IC, enabling real-time TFT non-uniformity compensation, is presented with a hybrid driving scheme. The proposed hybrid driving scheme drives a mobile UHD (3840×1920) AMOLED panel, whose scan time is 7.7μs at a scan frequency of 60Hz, through the load of 30kohm resistance and 30pF capacitance. A proposed accurate current sensor embedded in the column driver and a back-end compensation scheme reduce maximum current error between emulated TFTs within 0.94 LSB (37nA) of 8-bit gray scales. Since the TFT variation is externally compensated, a simple 3T1C pixel circuit is employed in each pixel.

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