A Low-Power Rail-to-Rail Row/Column Selector Operating at 2V Using a-IGZO TFTs for Flexible Displays

Santos, Ângelo; Tiwari, Bhawna; Martins, Jorge; Santa, Ana; Chapagai, Kamal; Bahubalindruni, Pydi; Barquinha, Pedro

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This paper presents design and implementation of 8-bit shift register with low-voltage amorphous Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) for row/column selection of pixel matrix in flexible displays. This circuit is capable of ensuring complete rail-to-rail operation by employing novel NAND gates that were developed based on capacitive bootstrapping load. As a first step, a positive edge triggered D-flip flop (D-FF) is designed using these logic gates, then a complete 8-bit shift register is designed and simulated using in-house low-voltage IGZO TFT models in Cadence Virtuoso. During these circuit simulations a power supply voltage of 2V and a channel length of 2 μm were used. Simulation outcome of 8-bit shift register has shown a power consumption of 72.15 μW with output voltage swing of 95% of V dd at 20 kHz operating frequency, going well beyond the state of the art for oxide TFT technology at very low supply voltage. The proposed circuit can be used as a row/column selector in flexible displays that can operate at low supply voltage and allows small active-area.