Dave Savastano07.06.10
GSI Technologies and NTERA announced they have successfully demonstrated the first hot-laminated display card modules using NanoChromics display (NCD) technology.
The solution, developed by GSI Technologies, is based on NTERA’s NanoChromics display technology printed on a flexible substrate, and driven by a conventional, off-the-shelf microcontroller chip. It is fully compatible with industry-standard hot-lamination plastic card manufacturing, and was demonstrated in conjunction with a leading smart card manufacturer.
Featuring a high contrast display with a white background typical of NCD technology, the fully functional six-digit, seven-segment display card is the ideal solution for the emerging powered smart card market. Applications will include two factor authentication security solutions such as one time passcodes (OTP), financial credit/debit cards, transportation cards and other stored value cards.
The NCD displays were printed by GSI Technologies onto the same flexible substrate upon which a microcontroller is attached. This implementation approach, enabled by fully printing the NCD display, eliminates the need to separately make and attach a display to a module.
“Through this process, which we refer to as ‘printegration,’ our customers can reduce the number of components and manufacturing steps in products,” explained David Corr, CEO of NTERA. “At scale, the use of printed NanoChromics display technology will result in products with higher levels of quality and lower costs of implementation.”
Echoing these sentiments, Gordon Smith, CTO of GSI Technologies, noted, “We are just beginning to reap the benefits printing can deliver to advanced electronic products. In demonstrating a printed, single substrate, hot-laminated card module, we are at the forefront of this printing revolution. We are excited about the technology and GSI’s development capabilities to bring these products to market.”
An overwhelming majority of plastic cards worldwide are produced utilizing hot-lamination production processes. The ability to leverage this industry standard production process is essential to enabling manufacturing capacity, volume and price points that will support mass-market adoption of powered smart cards.
The solution, developed by GSI Technologies, is based on NTERA’s NanoChromics display technology printed on a flexible substrate, and driven by a conventional, off-the-shelf microcontroller chip. It is fully compatible with industry-standard hot-lamination plastic card manufacturing, and was demonstrated in conjunction with a leading smart card manufacturer.
Featuring a high contrast display with a white background typical of NCD technology, the fully functional six-digit, seven-segment display card is the ideal solution for the emerging powered smart card market. Applications will include two factor authentication security solutions such as one time passcodes (OTP), financial credit/debit cards, transportation cards and other stored value cards.
The NCD displays were printed by GSI Technologies onto the same flexible substrate upon which a microcontroller is attached. This implementation approach, enabled by fully printing the NCD display, eliminates the need to separately make and attach a display to a module.
“Through this process, which we refer to as ‘printegration,’ our customers can reduce the number of components and manufacturing steps in products,” explained David Corr, CEO of NTERA. “At scale, the use of printed NanoChromics display technology will result in products with higher levels of quality and lower costs of implementation.”
Echoing these sentiments, Gordon Smith, CTO of GSI Technologies, noted, “We are just beginning to reap the benefits printing can deliver to advanced electronic products. In demonstrating a printed, single substrate, hot-laminated card module, we are at the forefront of this printing revolution. We are excited about the technology and GSI’s development capabilities to bring these products to market.”
An overwhelming majority of plastic cards worldwide are produced utilizing hot-lamination production processes. The ability to leverage this industry standard production process is essential to enabling manufacturing capacity, volume and price points that will support mass-market adoption of powered smart cards.