Advanced poly-LED displays

Mark Childs; Giovanni Nisato; D. Fish; Andrea Giraldo; A. J. Jenkins; Mark T. Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.479597

16 May 2003 Advanced poly-LED displays

Mark Childs, Giovanni Nisato, D. Fish, Andrea Giraldo, A. J. Jenkins, Mark T. Johnson

Proceedings Volume 5004, Poly-Silicon Thin Film Transistor Technology and Applications in Displays and Other Novel Technology Areas; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479597
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

Philips have been actively developing polymer OLED (poly-LED) displays as a future display technology. Their emissive nature leads to a very attractive visual appearance, with wide viewing angle, high brightness and fast response speed. Whilst the first generation of poly-LED displays are likely to be passive-matrix driven, power reduction and resolution increase will lead to the use of active-matrix poly-LED displays. Philips Research have designed, fabricated and characterized five different designs of active-matrix polymer-LED display. Each of the five displays makes use of a distinct pixel programming- or pixel drive-technique, including current programming, threshold voltage measurement and photodiode feedback. It will be shown that hte simplest voltage-programmed current-source pixel suffers from potentially unacceptable brightness non-uniformity, and that advanced pixel circuits can provide a solution to this. Optical-feedback pixel circuits will be discussed, showing that they can be used to improve uniformity and compensate for image burn-in due to polymer-LED material degradation, improving display lifetime. Philips research has also been active in developing technologies required to implement poly-LED displays on flexible substrates, including materials, processing and testing methods. The fabrication of flexible passive-matrix poly-LED displays will be presented, as well as the ongoing work to assess the suitability of processing flexible next-generation poly-LED displays.

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Mark Childs, Giovanni Nisato, D. Fish, Andrea Giraldo, A. J. Jenkins, and Mark T. Johnson "Advanced poly-LED displays", Proc. SPIE 5004, Poly-Silicon Thin Film Transistor Technology and Applications in Displays and Other Novel Technology Areas, (16 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479597

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