Low power low temperature poly-Si thin-film transistor shift register with DC-type output driver

This paper demonstrates a low power DC-type low temperature poly-Si (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) shift register that consists of nine TFTs and one bootstrapping capacitor. The proposed circuit connects large size pull-up TFTs of output drivers to positive supply instead of alternating clock signals in order to reduce substantially the power consumption of clock drivers. The SPICE simulation ensures that the variable overlap intervals can be programmed by the delay between clock signals and the overall power consumption of a DC-type circuit can be reduced to 45% of an AC-type one for a full-HD display. The operation of a proposed structure is also verified with a fabricated 16-stage gate driver.