A new threshold‐voltage compensation technique of poly‐Si TFTs for AMOLED display pixel circuits

— A new threshold-voltage compensation technique for polycrystal line-silicon thin-film transistors (poly-Si TFTs) used in active-matrix organic light-emitting-diode (AMOLED) display pixel circuits is presented. The new technique was applied to a conventional 2-transistor—1-capacitor (2T1C) pixel circuit, and a new voltage-programmed pixel circuit (VPPC) is proposed. Theoretically, the proposed pixel is the fastest pixel with threshold-voltage compensation reported in the literature because of the new compression technique implemented with a static circuit block, which does not affect the response time of the conventional 2T1C pixel circuit. Furthermore, the new pixel exhibits all the other advantages of the 2T1C pixel, such as the simplicity of the peripheral drivers and improves other characteristics, such as its behavior in the temperature variations. The verification of the proposed pixel is made through simulations with HSpice. In order to obtain realistic simulations, device parameters were extracted from fabricated low-temperature poly-Si (LTPS) TFTs.

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