Industrial Application of Nanotechnology: Bringing our Business to the next Level

AmaTech / 1David Finn 2013/11

Industrial Application of Nanotechnology:

Bringing our Business to the next Level

CRANN Nanoscience Institute and German Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce

13th November, 2013


Content

Introduction

Strategic Focus

Process

Products

Nanoscience Program

Automation Engineering

Markets

Properties of Nanomaterials

Potential Applications

Q&A


Introduction

• Machine Engineering (mechanical design and software development) as well as machine assembly in Füssen/Allgäu, Germany

AmaTech was founded in 2007 by David Finn in Ireland and Germany.

The core competencies lie in transformation of innovative ideas into products and their automation for cost effective production.

• Product Manufacturing in a class 10,000 cleanroom at its facility in Spiddal Co. Galway, Ireland

Many of the engineers and management are veterans of the RFID industry, with particular skill sets in product development, machine engineering and mass production of radio frequency devices.


Our Business is developing Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) enabled products, producing automation machines to manufacture the RFID products and providing technology and production platforms under license to customers in financial payment and secure credential markets.Our Customers are semiconductor companies, smartcard manufacturers and secure printers.Our collaboration partners:

National Center of Laser Application (NCLA) in Galway Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and CRANN

Our mission is to become a global trusted provider of innovative Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) solutions used in the manufacture of Bank Cards, National eID’s and electronic passports.

Strategic Focus

AmaTech - Intelligence in Contactless Communication


Markets

Secure Access and Financial Payment Cards


Personal Identification and National Identity Cards

Markets


Electronic Passports

Markets


Security Features in RFID enabled Products

Markets


Process

Process Technology: High Frequency (13.56 MHz) TranspondersChip Module (Packaging of the silicon device)

Leadframe

Mould Mass

Embedded Antenna

Antenna

TRANSPONDERRFID chip connected to an antenna

Contactless Credit Card


AmaTech’s Reactive Coupling Technology is the solution!• Reactive Coupling eliminates the physical

connection between the IC module and the in-Card antenna

Products

Next Generation of Financial Payment Cards (Debit/Credit)


The Technology - Dual Interface Card Construction

EMV Financial PaymentSmart card (Dual Interface)

Products


Government - Identity & Security

AmaTech offers a comprehensive range of electronic inlay products for secure credential documents.

Our products have been qualified according to market technical specifications (ICAO, ISO, FIME).

Electronic Passport e-Cover (HF)• 1up, 2up and 3up formats available

National ID Inlay (HF)• 3 x 8 format, other formats on requestElectronic Passport Datapage (HF)

Product Range

Products


Machine engineering know how is the key to superior product quality and production performance, reduced cycle times and ultimately manufacturing cost. By increasing the level of automation for products, the requirement for low cost manual labour at offshore production sites is reduced.


Core Competencies: Product Development and Machine Engineering


Scribing wire into synthetic material to create an array of RFID Antennas



Interconnecting the wire ends of an Antenna with an RFID Chip Module using Thermo-compression Bonding



The micromachining of polymers with laser radiation is an important step in the development of secure documents. The application of laser ablation in the RFID industry is:• The creation of pockets in a polymer to accept

an IC Module such as a transponder chip

Laser Ablation of Polymers



Nanoscience Program

Submergence in a Postgraduate Course of Study at Trinity College

In March 2011, I decided to attend a series of postgraduate courses on nanoscience under the guidance of Prof. Jonathan Coleman

My primary interest was to understand the science of nanotechnology, the possible applications, and whether the technology could be applied to secure documents and financial payment cards

Engineering meets Physics!


• Liquid phase suspensionsin use in suntan lotions, cosmetics, surface coatings on keyboards or windows

• Transparent electrically conductive networks

• Difficult to counterfeit devices made of nanomaterials – an inherent complexity

A lot of novel physics properties yet to find application ..........

Properties of Nanomaterials

New Physical and Chemical Properties compared to Bulk• High surface to volume ratio

Melting point of nanomaterials is suppressed compared to bulk

GOLD: ~ 3 nm -> 500°C > 100 nm -> 1064°CSILVER: ~ 3 nm -> 120°C > 100 nm -> 960°CImproved energy storage capability (e.g. Batteries and super-capacitors)

Silver Nanoparticles


200 nm

500 nm

• Nobel prize committee:

a hypothetical 1-metre-square hammock of perfect graphene could support a 4-kilogram cat. The hammock would weigh 0.77 milligrams — less than the weight of a cat's whisker — and would be virtually invisible

Graphene – a special nanomaterialPotential Applications

Inkjet printable – electrically conductive tracks and antenna structures


Interconnection Technology• Low temperature bondingCoating of Flexible Temperature Sensitive Substrates • Shielding of an electromagnetic field to prevent phishing• Reducing the attenuation of an electromagnetic field to enhance communication at high

baud ratesPassive Devices• Antenna structures• RLC circuits to form bits of informationAnti-counterfeiting measures• Combining nanomaterials with legacy printing technology

Electronic ink to replace barcode


Use of nanomaterials and nanostructures in secure RFID Products


• Transparent circuits can be formed using nanotechnology

• This covert security feature is virtually impossible to counterfeit and yet is easily authenticated.

• Nano-Network circuits can be added to secure credentials – eID’s, ePassport data pages, eVisa’s and government issued tax stamps.

Covert Security Features: Transparent Nano Networks



Passive circuits: Laser etched silver nanowire circuits



Magnetography

• AmaTech uses ferrite spheres for selective placement on flexible substrates

• Uses in RF shielding – enabling NFC in mobile telephones

• Works with range of magnetic materials – performance enhancement in RFID

AMBER collaboration

Combine Magnetography with Nanotechnology

Move nanoparticles with magnets ??

Exploit nano-magnetic materials ??



Ferrite flakes

Imaging cylinder

Magnetic conveyor

Deflector blade

Flake sump

Flake wave Magnetic scavenger

Potential ApplicationsMagnetography – how it works

• Magnetic particles attracted to magnetized domains on a drum – transferred to a given substrate


Questions ...

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Q&A


AmaTech Corp

European Contact Details:

Unit 7, Spiddal Industrial Estate,Baile an tSagairt, Spiddal,

Co. GalwayIreland

Telephone: +353 87 9677335Fax: +353 91 553267

Email: [email protected]

US Contact Details:

PO Box 13133Akron OH, 44334

Telephone +1 602.321.8434Email: [email protected]

www.amatechcorp.com

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