Novel a-Si:H TFT pixel circuit for electrically stable top-anode light-emitting AMOLEDs

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 545-551

  Yoo, Juhn Suk ^a,b   Lee, Hojin ^b   Kanicki, Jerzy ^b   Kim, Chang Dong ^a   Chung, In Jae ^a  

^a LG Display Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

A Si:H; AMOLED; Pixel circuit; Reliability; TFT

Indexed keywords

COPYING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PIXELS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON;

A-SI:H; A-SI:H TFT; AMOLED; CURRENT COMPENSATIONS; ORGANIC; PIXEL CIRCUIT; PIXEL CIRCUITS; SPICE SIMULATIONS; TFT; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE VARIATIONS;

SPICE;

EID: 50549088952     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2770853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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