Towards a System-on-plastic Driver Integration

With the availability of an OTFT as basic building block it is possible to realize more functionality on the backplane than just the active matrix. This enables shifting functional blocks, for example drivers, from outside the backplane on to the backplane, which is advantageous for the complexity and cost of the total system. When drivers are integrated on to the backplane, the amount of silicon is reduced, as also is the number of connections needed from the driving electronics to the backplane. 

Because the electrophoretic display effect that is used is multi-stable, the row drivers are only operational during an image update. This is different from the commonly used LC display effects that need to be driven continuously during use of the display. In view of bias stress effects, this makes the electrophoretic display effect ideal for integration of row drivers in organic electronics. 

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