IR-Drop-Based Temperature Distribution in Large-Size AMOLED Panel

Abstract

Large-size and high-resolution AMOLED displays have become one of the most attractive display technologies. However, the dependence of the luminance of AMOLED on temperature severely limits wider applications. The accurate temperature distribution is important for implementing compensation into a panel to improve display uniformity. With the increase in size and resolution, the voltage drop (IR-drop) caused by the resistance of the power supply line cannot be ignored, which has influence on temperature distribution. Therefore, this paper proposes a temperature distribution analysis method based on IR-drop. Firstly, an accurate solution of IR-drop of AMOLED panels is achieved by exploiting the sparse representation in the field of artificial intelligence. Secondly, the IR-drop-based power model is established, and the output of the power model is used as the input of the AMOLED thermal simulation model. Finally, the temperature distribution of the AMOLED panel is obtained by finite-element analysis. The temperature measurements are performed on a 95-inch 8K AMOLED panel. The simulation results are compared with the actual measurements, and it is found that the temperature distribution based on IR-drop matches well with the actual measurements than that without considering IR-drop. The analysis method proposed in this paper presents high accuracy and high practicability.

Keywords

• AMOLED
• IR-drop
• temperature distribution
• thermal simulation