Analysis of heat diffusion considering driving images on 6-inch flexible AMOLED display

Abstract

We report the heat diffusion on flexible active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. Two-dimensional heat diffusion is used for the heat conduction and convection analysis, generated on the surface of a flexible AMOLED display. The heat diffusion parameters and the time constant are studied in terms of the driving conditions of a 6-inch flexible AMOLED display. The temperature distribution on the screen is obtained by applying heat diffusion using the finite difference method (FDM) with an FPGA driving board. We can predict temperature more precisely by calculating temperature changes according to the images. The proposed method improves the accuracy of predicting the temperature. The average and standard deviation of the temperature error (TER) are ∼0.5°C and ∼0.5°C for the proposed method, respectively. For the conventional method, the values are ∼4.5°C and ∼0.7°C, respectively, neglecting the increase in temperature based on the images. This method can be used in compensation technology for OLEDs and thin film transistors (TFTs) that require accurate temperature distribution on the screen.