• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.594-600
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• 2014

A threshold voltage compensation pixel circuit was developed for active-matrix organic light emitting diodes (AMOLEDs) using amorphous indium-gallium-zinc-oxide thin-film transistors (a-IGZO-TFTs). Oxide TFTs are n-channel TFTs; therefore, we developed a circuit for the n-channel TFT characteristics. The proposed pixel circuit was verified and proved by circuit analysis and circuit simulations. The proposed circuit was able to compensate for the threshold voltage variations of the drive TFT in AMOLEDs. The error rate of the OLED current for a threshold voltage change of 3 V was as low as 1.5%.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.205-210
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• 2022

본 논문은 OLED 구동 박막 트랜지스터의 문턱전압 변동에 의한 AMOLED 디스플레이의 휘도 불균일도를 개선하기 위해 n-채널 박막 트랜지스터만을 사용한 새로운 OLED 화소회로를 제안하였다. 제안한 OLED 화소회로는 6개의 n-채널 박막 트랜지스터와 2개의 커패시터로 구성하였다. 제안한 OLED 화소회로의 동작은 커패시터 초기화 구간, OLED 구동 박막 트랜지스터의 문턱전압을 감지하는 구간, 영상 데이터 전압 기입 구간 및 OLED 발광 구간으로 구성되어 있다. SmartSpice 시뮬레이션 결과, OLED·구동 박막 트랜지스터의 문턱전압이 1.5±0.3 V 변동 시 제안한 OLED 화소회로는 OLED 전류 1 nA에서 최대 전류 오차가 5.18 %이고 OLED 음극 전압이 0.1 V 상승 시 제안한 OLED 화소회로가 기존 OLED 화소회로보다 OLED·전류 변화가 매우 적었다. 그러므로, 기존 OLED 화소회로보다 제안한 화소회로가 문턱전압 변동 및 OLED 음극 전압 상승에 뛰어난 보상 특성을 가진다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.141-145
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• 2021

The brightness of the Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display is controlled by thin-film transistors (TFTs). Regardless of the materials and the structures of TFTs, an OLED suffers from the instable threshold voltage (V_th) of a TFT during operation. When designing an OLED pixel with circuit simulation tool such as SPICE, a designer needs to take V_th shift into account to improve the reliability of the circuit and various compensation methods have been proposed. In this paper, the effect of the compensation circuits from two typical OLED pixel circuits proposed in the literature are studied by the transient simulation with a SPICE tool in which the stretched-exponential time dependent V_th shift function is implemented. The simulation results show that the compensation circuits improve the reliability at the beginning of each frame, but V_th shifts from all TFTs in a pixel need to be considered to improve long-time reliability.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.247-253
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• 2009

We propose a Ku-band driver and high-power amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) employing a compensating gate bias circuit using a commercial 0.5 ${\mu}m$ GaAs pHEMT technology. The integrated gate bias circuit provides compensation for the threshold voltage and temperature variations as well as independence of the supply voltage variations. A fabricated two-stage Ku-band driver amplifier MMIC exhibits a typical output power of 30.5 dBm and power-added efficiency (PAE) of 37% over a 13.5 GHz to 15.0 GHz frequency band, while a fabricated three-stage Ku-band high-power amplifier MMIC exhibits a maximum saturated output power of 39.25 dBm (8.4 W) and PAE of 22.7% at 14.5 GHz.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1697-1700
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• 2006

A Novel pixel structure with a new threshold voltage compensation technique is proposed for large-size a-Si:H AMOLED panel application. The proposed pixel improves image quality with threshold voltage compensation and alleviates annealing technique for display-off time. Sensing the threshold voltage of driving TFT for 20-inch WUXGA panel is verified by the HSPICE simulation.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2005년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.6
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• pp.529-530
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• 2005

A voltage driving AMOLED(Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) is useful for large-sized, high resolution OLED display. The conventional 2-TFTs, 1-CAP AMOLED circuit suffer from the threshold voltage variation of TFT. In this paper, a new AMOLED structure is proposed. It is composed of 5-TFTs and 2-capacitors. It is described that the operating principle and the characteristics of the proposed structure and is verified the performance by HSPICE simulation. The result of simulation shows that the effect of the threshold voltage variation in this circuit, is able to neglect.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.740-749
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• 2015

종래의 LED(Light Emitting Diode) 조명을 사용한 가시광 통신에서 송수신기 회로 사이의 통신 거리가 증가함에 따라 가시광 채널의 페이딩과 채널의 경로손실 특성으로 인해 가시광 수신 회로의 포토다이오드에서 수신된 신호는 불규칙한 크기이며 감쇠된 특성을 가진다. 이런 문제점을 극복하기 위해, 이 논문에서는 가시광 통신의 통신거리 확장을 위해 반드시 필요한 거리 보상 회로가 내장된 비교기 문턱 전압 기반의 가시광 통신 회로를 제안하여 설계하고 가시광 시스템 시스템을 구현한다. 또한, 구현된 문턱값 기반 가시광 통신 시스템을 통신 거리와 통신 시스템 속도에 따라 종래 가시광 통신 시스템과 비교하여 제안된 방식시스템의 성능을 분석한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.330-336
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 디지털 의료 영상 및 진단 분야 그리고 산업용으로도 활용 가능한 싱글 포톤 계수형 영상센서를 $0.18{\mu}m$ triple-well CMOS(Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) 공정을 사용하여 설계하였다. 설계된 Readout 칩용 싱글 픽셀은 디지털 X-ray 이미지 센서모듈을 간단화 하기 위해 단일 전원전압을 사용하였으며, Preamplifier의 출력 전압인 signal voltage(${\Delta}Vs$)를 크게 하기 위해 Folded Cascode CMOS OP amp를 이용한 Preamplifier를 설계하였으며, 기존의 Readout 칩 외부에서 인가하던 threshold voltage를 Readout 칩 내부에서 생성해 줄 수 있도록 Externally Tunable Threshold Voltage Generator 회로를 새롭게 제안하였다. 그리고, Photo Diode에서 발생하는 Dark Current Noise를 제거하기 위한 Dark Current Compensation 회로를 제안하였으며, 고속 counting이 가능하고, layout 면적이 작은 15bit LFSR(Linear Feedback Shift Resister) Counter를 설계하였다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2002

Silicon-based 0.69-inch AMOEL microdisplay with integrated driver and timing controller circuits for microdisplay applications has been developed using 0.35 ${\mu}m$ l-poly 4-metal standard CMOS process with 5 V CMOS devices and CMP (Chemical Mechanical Polishing) technology. To reduce the large data programming time consumed in a conventional current programming pixel circuit technique and to achieve uniform display, de-amplifying current mirror pixel circuit and the current-mode data driver circuit with threshold roltage compensation are proposed. The proposed current-mode data driver circuit is inherently immune to the ground-bouncing effect. The Monte-Carlo simulation results show that the proposed current-mode data driver circuit has channel-to-channel non-uniformity of less than ${\pm}$0.6 LSB under ${\pm}$70 mV threshold voltage variaions for both NMOS and PMOS transistors, which gives very good display uniformity.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.473-476
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• 2008

A simple voltage compensation pixel circuit for AMOLED is produced using low temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) technology. Its operation is verified by AIM-SPICE. Simulation results show that the pixel circuit has high immunity to variation of LTPS-TFT and reduces the drop in luminance due to the degradation of the OLED.