Patent Application
20240212639
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and in particular, to a voltage providing unit, a voltage providing method, a display driving module and a display device.
A large-size display pane becomes popular due to its larger display area. Meanwhile, the oxide thin film transistor (Oxide TFT) is gradually applied to various display panels due to its technical advantage such as high mobility.
In an aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a voltage providing unit, applied to a display panel, the voltage providing unit is configured to provide a control voltage signal for a driving circuit, the voltage providing unit includes a buck circuit and a first electrical level converting circuit:
In a possible embodiment of the present disclosure, the buck circuit includes a switching unit, a storage unit and a flyback unit:
In a possible embodiment of the present disclosure, the switching unit includes a control switching transistor, the control switching transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal, the control terminal of the control switching transistor is connected to a control signal terminal to obtain a control signal, the first terminal of the control switching transistor is connected to the input node, and the second terminal of the control switching transistor is connected to the first node:
In a possible embodiment of the present disclosure, the predetermined voltage value is less than or equal to 27 V.
In a possible embodiment of the present disclosure, the predetermined voltage value ranges from 15 V to 26 V.
In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a voltage providing method, applied to the above-mentioned voltage providing unit, the voltage providing method includes:
In a possible embodiment of the present disclosure, the control voltage signal is a square-wave voltage signal;
In yet another aspect, the present disclosure provides in some embodiments a display driving module, including a driving circuit, a timing controller, a power source management integrated circuit and the above-mentioned voltage providing unit:
In a possible embodiment of the present disclosure, the display driving module further includes a second electrical level converting circuit, the second electrical level converting circuit is connected to the timing controller, the power source management integrated circuit and the driving circuit, and the second electrical level converting circuit is configured to receive a first timing control signal, a first driving control signal, the first voltage signal and the third voltage signal, to generate a second timing signal, a common signal and a second driving control signal, and transmit the second timing signal, the common signal and the second driving control signal to the driving circuit.
In a possible embodiment of the present disclosure, the driving circuit includes:
In still yet another aspect, the present disclosure provides in some embodiments a display device, including the above-mentioned display driving module.
According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the voltage providing unit applied to the display panel is configured to provide the control voltage signal for the driving circuit, and the voltage providing unit includes the buck circuit and the first electrical level converting circuit. The buck circuit is configured to receive the first voltage signal and perform the buck operation on the first voltage signal to obtain the second voltage signal; and the first electrical level converting circuit is connected to the buck circuit, and is configured to receive the input control voltage, the third voltage signal and the second voltage signal, and generate the control voltage signal in accordance with the input control voltage, the third voltage signal and the second voltage signal, so that the voltage value of the control voltage signal to be less than a predetermined voltage value. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, by providing the buck circuit and the first electrical level converting circuit, the control on the electrical level of the control voltage signal can be realized and the influence of excessively high electrical level of the control voltage signal on the performance of the display panel can be reduced, thereby improving the reliability of the display panel.
In order to illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiment of the present disclosure in a clearer manner, the drawings for the embodiment of the present disclosure will be described hereinafter briefly. Apparently, the following drawings merely relate to some embodiments of the present disclosure, and based on these drawings, a person skilled in the art may obtain the other drawings without any creative effort.
The technical solution of the present disclosure will be described hereinafter clearly and completely in conjunction with the drawings for embodiments of the present disclosure. Apparently, the following embodiments merely relate to a some, rather than all, of embodiments of the present disclosure. Based on these embodiments, all other embodiments, obtained by a person skilled in the art without any creative effort, also fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
A liquid crystal display panel (LCD) with amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film transistors (TFTs) is gradually replaced by a LCD with Oxide TFTs due to its high mobility. However, compared with existing α-Si TFTs, Oxide TFTs have a relatively poor stability and yield.
In the process of implementing the technical solution of the present disclosure, the inventor of the present disclosure found that a display panel with large size, high resolution, and high refresh rate has a high requirement for the driving voltage. Many large-size display panels are driven by a Gate driver On Array (GOA, a driving circuit on array substrate, also referred to a row driver on array substrate when the driver is arranged in a row direction of the display panel), so as to achieve a display with a narrow frame and reduce cost. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the driving circuit is exemplified as GOA.
In order to reduce signal attenuation and signal delay caused by large size and high resolution, the driving voltage is usually increased in the related art, for example, a high electrical level of the GOA in a certain display panel is above 30 V, and a low electrical level of the GOA is below −10 V.
When the requirements of the display panel are higher, such as larger size, higher refresh rate, or higher resolution, the driving voltage is further increased. For example, taking Oxide TFT 110-inch display panel with a resolution of 8000 and a refresh frequency of 120 Hz (8K 120 Hz) as an example, in order to reduce resistance capacitance (RC) delay, the driving voltage of the GOA is usually about 32 V for high voltage VGH and about −15 V for low voltage LVGL.
In embodiments of the present disclosure, the driving circuit in a display device may include a plurality of driving sub-circuits, the driving circuit may be, but not limited to, configured to provide a driving signal for a pixel circuit in an effective display region, and the driving signal may be, but not limited to, a gate driving signal or a light-emitting control signal.
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a driving circuit.
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The pull-down node control sub-circuit 102 includes a fifth transistor M5, and the pull-down node control sub-circuit 102 is connected to a first power source voltage signal terminal V1, the pull-up node PU, and a first pull-down node PD1.
A control electrode and a first electrode of the fifth transistor M5 are connected to the first power source voltage signal terminal V1, and a second electrode of the fifth transistor M5 is connected to the first pull-down node PD1.
The pull-down node control sub-circuit 102 is configured to transmit a power source voltage signal provided by the first power source voltage signal terminal V1 to the first pull-down node PD1 under the control of the first power source voltage signal terminal V1 and the pull-up node PU.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the pull-down node control sub-circuit 102 further includes a first accessing unit, specifically, the first accessing unit includes a sixth transistor M6, and in some embodiments, the first accessing unit may further include an eighth transistor M6″.
A control electrode of the sixth transistor M6 is connected to the input signal terminal I, a first electrode of the sixth transistor M6 is connected to the first pull-down node PD1, and a second electrode of the sixth transistor M6 is connected to a third voltage signal terminal V3.
A control electrode of the eighth transistor M6′ is connected to the pull-up node PU, a first electrode of the eighth transistor M6′ is connected to the first pull-down node PD1, and a second electrode of the eighth transistor M6′ is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
The first accessing unit is capable of transmitting a third voltage signal provided by the third voltage signal terminal V3 to the first pull-down node PD1 under the control of the input signal terminal I. In this regard, a potential at the first pull-down node PD1 can be set to a low electrical level in a case that the input signal provided by the input signal terminal I is at a high electrical level, which is favorable for ensuring transistors in the noise reduction sub-circuit 104, the output sub-circuit 103, and a cascade sub-circuit which are connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3 to be turned off, thereby ensuring the normal operation of the circuit and improving the accuracy of the output signal.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the pull-down node control sub-circuit 102 further includes a fourth transistor M5′, a control electrode and a first electrode of the fourth transistor M5′ are connected to a second power source voltage signal terminal V2, and a second electrode of the fourth transistor M5′ is connected to a second pull-down node PD2.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the pull-down node control sub-circuit 102 further includes a second accessing unit, specifically, the second accessing unit includes a sixteenth transistor M16, and the second accessing unit may further include a seventeenth transistor M16′.
A control electrode of the sixteenth transistor M16 is connected to the pull-up node PU, a first electrode of the sixteenth transistor M16 is connected to the second pull-down node PD2, and a second electrode of the sixteenth transistor M16 is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
A control electrode of the seventeenth transistor M16′ is connected to the input signal terminal I, a first electrode of the seventeenth transistor M16′ is connected to the second pull-down node PD2, and a second electrode of the seventeenth transistor M16′ is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
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The output sub-circuit 103 includes a third transistor M3 and an eleventh transistor M11. The output sub-circuit 103 is connected to the pull-up node PU, a clock signal terminal CK, the first pull-down node PD1, the third voltage signal terminal V3 and a first output signal terminal O1.
A control electrode of the third transistor M3 is connected to the pull-up node PU, a first electrode of the third transistor M3 is connected to the clock signal terminal CK, and a second electrode of the third transistor M3 is connected to the first output signal terminal O1.
A control electrode of the eleventh transistor M11 is connected to the first pull-down node PD1, a first electrode of the eleventh transistor M11 is connected to the first output signal terminal O1, and a second electrode of the eleventh transistor M11 is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
The output sub-circuit 103 may further include a fourteenth transistor M11′, a control electrode of the fourteenth transistor M11′ is connected to the second pull-down node PD2, a first electrode of the fourteenth transistor M11′ is connected to the first output signal terminal O1, and a second electrode of the fourteenth transistor M11′ is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
The output sub-circuit 103 is configured to transmit a clock signal provided by the clock signal terminal CK to the first output signal terminal O1 under the control of the pull-up node PU, and to transmit the third voltage signal provided by the third voltage signal terminal V3 to the first output signal terminal O1 under the control of the first pull-down node PD1 or the second pull-down node PD2, so as to output the driving signal.
The noise reduction sub-circuit 104 includes a tenth transistor M10, and the noise reduction sub-circuit 104 is connected to the pull-up node PU, the third voltage signal terminal V3, and the first pull-down node PD1.
A control electrode of the tenth transistor M10 is connected to the first pull-down node PD1, a first electrode of the tenth transistor M10 is connected to the pull-up node PU, and a second electrode of the tenth transistor M10 is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the noise reduction sub-circuit 104 further includes a ninth transistor M10′, a control electrode of the ninth transistor M10′ is connected to the second pull-down node PD2, a first electrode of the ninth transistor M10′ is connected to the pull-up node PU, and a second electrode of the ninth transistor M10′ is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
The noise reduction sub-circuit 104 is configured to transmit the third voltage signal provided by the third voltage signal terminal V3 to the pull-up node PU under the control of the first pull-down node PD1.
The first reset sub-circuit 105 includes a second transistor M2, and the first reset sub-circuit 105 is connected to the pull-up node PU, a first reset signal terminal Rs, and the third voltage signal terminal V3.
A control electrode of the second transistor M2 is connected to the first reset signal terminal Rs, a first electrode of the second transistor M2 is connected to the pull-up node PU, and a second electrode of the second transistor M2 is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
The first reset sub-circuit 105 is configured to transmit the third voltage signal provided by the third voltage signal terminal V3 to the pull-down node under the control of a reset signal provided by the first reset signal terminal Rs.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the driving circuit may further include a cascade sub-circuit, as shown in
The cascade sub-circuit is connected to the pull-up node PU, the clock signal terminal CK, the first pull-down node PD1, the third voltage signal terminal V3 and a second output signal terminal O2.
Specifically, a control electrode of the thirteenth transistor M13 is connected to the pull-up node PU, a first electrode of the thirteenth transistor M13 is connected to the clock signal terminal CK, and a second electrode of the thirteenth transistor M13 is connected to the second output signal terminal O2.
A control electrode of the twelfth transistor M12 is connected to the first pull-down node PD1, a first electrode of the twelfth transistor M12 is connected to the second output signal terminal O2, and a second electrode of the twelfth transistor M12 is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the cascade sub-circuit further includes a fifteenth transistor M12′, a control electrode of the fifteenth transistor M12′ is connected to the second pull-down node PD2, a first electrode of the fifteenth transistor M12′ is connected to the second output signal terminal O2, and a second electrode of the fifteenth transistor M12′ is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
The cascade sub-circuit is configured to transmit a clock signal provided by the clock signal terminal CK to the second output signal terminal O2 under the control of the pull-up node PU, and to transmit the third voltage signal provided by the third voltage signal terminal V3 to the second output signal terminal O2 under the control of the first pull-down node PD1, so as to output a carry control signal.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the driving circuit further includes a second reset sub-circuit, the second reset sub-circuit is configured to implement global reset of the cascade sub-circuit, the second reset sub-circuit includes a seventh transistor M7, a control electrode of the seventh transistor M7 is connected to a second reset control signal terminal STV, a first electrode of the seventh transistor M7 is connected to the pull-up node PU, and a second electrode of the seventh transistor M7 is connected to the third voltage signal terminal V3.
The second reset sub-circuit is configured to transmit the third voltage signal provided by the third voltage signal terminal V3 to the pull-up node PU under the control of a second reset control signal provided by the second reset control signal terminal STV, so as to pull down a potential at the pull-up node PU for resetting.
When the input signal enters from the input signal terminal I, the potential at the pull-up node PU is pulled up, a potential at the first pull-down node PD1 is pulled down by the sixth transistor M6, and when the potential at the pull-up node PU is pulled down by a reset signal of the second transistor M2, the potential at the first pull-down node PD1 is pulled up to a high potential again. Noise reduction for the pull-up node PU is performed by the tenth transistor M10, noise reduction for a first output signal G_out1 is performed by the eleventh transistor M11, and noise reduction for a second output signal G_out2 is performed by the twelfth transistor M12.
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the control process for the second pull-down node PD2 is similar to the control process for the first pull-down node PD1. Therefore, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, merely the control process corresponding to the first pull-down node PD1 is illustrated as an example.
A pull-down node driving sub-circuit includes the fifth transistor M5, and the pull-down node driving sub-circuit is connected to the first power source voltage signal terminal V1, the second power source voltage signal terminal V2, the pull-up node PU, and the first pull-down node PD1.
The pull-down node driving sub-circuit is configured to transmit a first power source voltage signal provided by the first voltage signal terminal V1 to the first pull-down node PD1 under the control of the first voltage signal terminal V1 and the pull-up node PU.
Reference is further made to the driving timing diagram of the display substrate in
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In summary, the voltage applied to the sixth transistor M6 has the following characteristics: when Vgs is at a high electrical level and Vds is at a low electrical level, electrons are accumulated at an interface between the gate insulation layer and the IGZO at the source electrode terminal S and the drain electrode terminal D: when Vgs is at a low electrical level and Vds is at a high electrical level, electrons are discharged from the interface to the IGZO at the source electrode terminal S and the drain electrode terminal D, and the electrons gather at the source electrode terminal S under an electric field between the source electrode and the drain electrode; the electrons obtain high energy from the electric field and therefore hot carriers generate. In this regard, a defect may be generated at the interface between the semiconductor and the gate insulation layer, which may lead to degradation.
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The voltage of the pull-up node PU and the first power source voltage signal terminal V1 are adjusted, as shown in Table 1, the high electrical level and the low electrical level of the first power source voltage signal terminal V1 in an original signal are 32 V and −15 V, respectively, and the high electrical level and the low electrical level of the pull-up node PU are 40 V and −15 V, respectively. At this time, the measured high electrical level and low electrical level of the first pull-down node PD1 are 22 V and −10 V, respectively.
Reference is still made to Table 1, Experiment 2, when the high electrical level of the first power source voltage signal terminal V1 is changed to 20 V, it is found that the characteristics of the sixth transistor M6 have little change after the high electrical level of the first power source voltage signal terminal V1 is lowered.
Referring to Table 1, Experiment 3, when the high electrical level of the pull-up node PU is changed from 40 V to 28 V, there may be characteristics degradation on the sixth transistor M6. Therefore, it is proved that the damage to the sixth transistor M6 can be reduced through reducing the electrical level of the first power source voltage signal terminal V1.
In order to obtain the voltage range of the first power source voltage signal provided by the first power source voltage signal terminal V1, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, different voltages for the first power source voltages signal are further set for testing.
Illustratively, as shown in Table 2, for a high mobility Oxide TFT with a band gap of 2.9e, when the first power source voltage signal is greater than 27 V, the attenuation of the sixth transistor M6 is significant, and the Ion attenuation of the sixth transistor M6 is about 40%, indicating that the hot carrier injection effect is significant for this condition. When the first power source voltage signal is reduced to be below 27 V, the Ion attenuation of the sixth transistor M6 is significantly reduced to about 15%, and is further reduced slightly through further reducing the voltage at the first power source voltage signal terminal V1.
Through the study done by the inventor, it is found that when the first power source voltage signal is reduced to be less than 26 V, the electric field intensity between the drain electrode terminal D and the gate electrode terminal decreases, and the hot carrier effect is not obvious.
Based on the above study, in order to enable a high voltage difference and a small delay for the output of GOA, the voltage difference between VGH and LVGL/VGL should be kept large, and the following technical solution is provided.
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a voltage providing unit, applied to a display panel, and the voltage providing unit is configured to provide a control voltage signal for a driving circuit.
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The buck circuit 701 is configured to receive a first voltage signal VGH and reduce the voltage of the first voltage signal VGH to obtain a second voltage signal VGH′.
The first electrical level converting circuit 702 is connected to the buck circuit 701, and the first electrical level converting circuit 702 is configured to receive an input control voltage VDD, a third voltage signal VGL and the second voltage signal VGH′, and generate control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE in accordance with the input control voltage VDD, the third voltage signal VGL and the second voltage signal VGH′, so that voltage values of the control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE are less than a predetermined voltage value.
The control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE here correspond to the first power source voltage signal provided by the first power source voltage signal terminal V1 and the second power source voltage signal provided by the second power source voltage signal terminal V2 in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the predetermined voltage value is less than or equal to 27 V. Further, the predetermined voltage value ranges from 15 V to 26 V. According to the results of the above experiments, by controlling the predetermined voltage value to be less than or equal to 27 V, the possible adverse effects on the transistor, e.g., the sixth transistor M6 can be reduced.
The first electrical level converting circuit 702 may be a level shifter. The first electrical level converting circuit 702 generates the control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE in accordance with the waveform of the input control voltage VDD signal provided by the timing controller 705 and high or low electrical levels of the third voltage signal VGL and the second voltage signal VGH′. The timing controller here may be a logic board TCON.
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the buck circuit 701 may be a conventional or improved buck circuit 701, as long as it can lower down the voltage.
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the buck circuit 701 includes a switching unit, a storage unit and a flyback unit.
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The storage unit is connected to the first node N1, a second node N2 and an output node 802 of the buck circuit 701, and the storage unit is configured to store a signal from the switching unit and transmit the same to the output node 802 when the switching unit is turned on, and to transmit the stored signal from the switching unit to the output node 802 when the switching unit is turned off.
The flyback unit is connected to the first node N1 and the second node N2, and the flyback unit is configured to convert the signal stored in the storage unit into a current when the switching unit is turned off, so as to maintain the continuity of the current.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the switching unit includes a control switching transistor T, the control switching transistor T has a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal. The control terminal of the control switching transistor T is connected to a control signal terminal Ctrl to obtain a control signal, the first terminal of the control switching transistor is connected to the input node 801, and the second terminal of the control switching transistor is connected to the first node N1.
The storage unit includes a first inductor L and a first capacitor C1, one terminal of the first inductor L is connected to the first node N1, and the other terminal of the first inductor L is connected to the output node 802, one terminal of the first capacitor C1 is connected to the second node N2, and the other terminal of the first capacitor C1 is connected to the output node 802. The flyback unit includes a first diode VD, an anode of the first diode VD is connected to the second node N2, and a cathode of the first diode VD being connected to the first node N1. The second node N2 is grounded.
With the buck circuit provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is able to adjust the third voltage signal VGL with a higher electrical level to the second voltage signal VGH′ with a lower electrical level, so that a voltage regulation can be realized.
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a voltage providing method, applied to the voltage providing unit in any of the embodiments.
In an embodiment, the method includes:
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first electrical level converting circuit generates the control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE in accordance with the waveform of the input control voltage VDD signal provided by the timing controller and high or low electrical levels of the third voltage signal VGL and the second voltage signal VGH″.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the control voltage signal is a square-wave voltage signal:
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first voltage signal VGH and the third voltage signal VGL are both constant voltage signals, and accordingly, the second voltage signal VGH′ obtained through buck operation performed on the first voltage VGH is also a constant voltage signal. During the adjustment process, the period and the duty ratio of the input control voltage signal VDD are kept unchanged, the high electrical level of the input control voltage signal VDD is adjusted based on the second voltage signal VGH′, and the low electrical level of the input control signal VDD is adjusted based on the third voltage signal VGL, so as to obtain control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE.
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the predetermined voltage value is less than or equal to 27V. Further, the predetermined voltage value ranges from 15V to 26V. By controlling the predetermined voltage value to be less than or equal to 27V, the possible adverse effects on the transistor, e.g., the sixth transistor M6 can be reduced.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE have the same period and duty ratio as the input control voltage VDD.
By providing the buck circuit, it is able to reduce the high electrical level of the input control voltage VDD to obtain the control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE, so as to avoid possible adverse effects of the high electrical level on the transistor, e.g., the sixth transistor M6, thereby improving the reliability of the display panel.
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a display driving module. As shown in
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the display driving module further includes a second electrical level converting circuit 706. When being applied to the driving circuit 704 in
The first driving control signal STVN here refers to the above mentioned second reset control signal, e.g., STV0 and STV1 as shown in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the driving circuit 704 includes a pull-down node control sub-circuit, and the pull-down node control sub-circuit is connected to a control voltage terminal and the pull-down node, and the pull-down node control sub-circuit is configured to transmit the control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE from the control voltage terminal to the pull-down node.
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, high voltages of the control voltage signals VDDO and VDDE are relatively low, so it is able to avoid the influence of the high voltage on the transistor connected to the pull-down node. For example, the transistor may be the sixth transistor M6 in the driving circuit 704 in
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a display device, including the above-mentioned display driving module.
The display device in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes all the technical solution of the above-mentioned display driving module, so as to at least achieve all the above-mentioned technical effects, and description of which is omitted herein.
The above embodiments are for illustrative purposes only, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Obviously, a person skilled in the art may make further modifications and improvements without departing from the spirit of the present disclosure, and these modifications and improvements shall also fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/CN2021/120187 | 9/24/2021 | WO |
