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Power saving through state retention in IGZO‐TFT AMOLED displays for wearable applications |
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| Authors: | Soeren Steudel Jan‐Laurens PJ van der Steen Manoj Nag Tung Huei Ke Steve Smout Thijs Bel Karin van Diesen Gerard de Haas Joris Maas Joris de Riet Madelon Rovers Roy Verbeek Yen‐Yu Huang Shin‐Chuan Chiang Marc Ameys Florian De Roose Wim Dehaene Jan Genoe Paul Heremans Gerwin Gelinck Auke Jisk Kronemeijer |
| Affiliation: | 1. IMEC, Leuven, Belgium;2. TNO/Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;3. ESAT, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;4. Chungwha Picture Tubes, Ltd., Bade City, Taoyuan, Taiwan;5. Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| Abstract: | We present a qHD (960 × 540 with three sub‐pixels) top‐emitting active‐matrix organic light‐emitting diode display with a 340‐ppi resolution using a self‐aligned IGZO thin‐film transistor backplane on polyimide foil with a humidity barrier. The back plane process flow is based on a seven‐layer photolithography process with a CD = 4 μm. We implement a 2T1C pixel engine and use a commercial source driver IC made for low‐temperature polycrystalline silicon. By using an IGZO thin‐film transistor and leveraging the extremely low off current, we can switch off the power to the source and gate driver while maintaining the image unchanged for several minutes. We demonstrate that, depending on the image content, low‐refresh operation yields reduction in power consumption of up to 50% compared with normal (continuous) operation. We show that with the further increase in resolution, the power saving through state retention will be even more significant. |
| Keywords: | flexible displays AMOLED metal‐oxide semiconductors self‐aligned TFT state retention |
