Pixel and organic light emitting display using the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorSang-Moo Choi
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Abstract
A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor having a first electrode coupled to a first power source, the first transistor being configured to control a magnitude of a current supplied from the first power source to the second power source via the OLED in accordance with a data signal, and a plurality of second transistors serially coupled between a gate electrode of the first transistor and a power source line, the second transistors being configured to be turned on when a second scan signal is supplied to a second scan line, wherein a common node between the second transistors is electrically coupled to the first electrode or a second electrode of the first transistor.
Claims17
A pixel comprising:
- an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source;
- a first transistor having a first electrode coupled to a first power source, the first transistor being configured to control a magnitude of a current supplied from the first power source to the second power source via a second electrode of the first transistor and the OLED in accordance with a data signal;
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- a plurality of second transistors serially coupled between a gate electrode of the first transistor and a power source line, the second transistors being configured to be turned on when a second scan signal is supplied to a second scan line,
- wherein a common node between the second transistors is electrically coupled to the first electrode or the second electrode of the first transistor.
An organic light emitting display, comprising:
- a scan driver configured to drive a plurality of first scan lines, a plurality of second scan lines, and a plurality of emission control lines;
- a data driver configured to supply a plurality of data signals to a plurality of data lines;
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- a plurality of pixels at crossing regions of the first scan lines and the data lines, the pixels being arranged in a plurality of horizontal lines,
- wherein each of the pixels in an ith horizontal line of the horizontal lines comprises:
- an OLED having a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source;
- a first transistor having a first electrode coupled to a first power source, the first transistor being configured to control a magnitude of a current supplied from the first power source to the second power source via a second electrode of the first transistor and the OLED in accordance with the data signal;
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- a plurality of second transistors serially coupled between a gate electrode of the first transistor and an ith power source line of a plurality of power source lines, the gate electrodes of the second transistors being coupled to an ith second scan line of the second scan lines,
- wherein a common node between the second transistors is electrically coupled to the first electrode or the second electrode of the first transistor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.