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http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.12.0112.0139

Data Supply Voltage Reduction Scheme for Low-Power AMOLED Displays  

Nam, Hyoungsik (Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University)
Jeong, Hoon (Department of Information Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University)
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ETRI Journal / v.34, no.5, 2012 , pp. 727-733 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper demonstrates a new driving scheme that allows reducing the supply voltage of data drivers for low-power active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. The proposed technique drives down the data voltage range by 50%, which subsequently diminishes in the peak power consumption of data drivers at the full white pattern by 75%. Because the gate voltage of a driving thin film transistor covers the same range as a conventional driving scheme by means of a level-shifting scheme, the low-data supply scheme achieves the equivalent dynamic range of OLED currents. The average power consumption of data drivers is reduced by 60% over 24 test images, and power consumption is kept below 25%.
Keywords
Data supply voltage reduction; low-power; level-shifting; AMOLED;
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