With OLED display electronic passport debut SID, thin and no power supply system

South Korea Samsung SDI and German security technology supplier Bundesdruckerei GmbH teamed up to develop an electronic passport. The electronic passport is equipped with a AMOLED active matrix organic light emitting diode display screen which can display all the contents of the passport (including dynamic passport photo). SID Week 2008 exhibition held in Los Angeles, will display this electronic passport.

The display screen used for electronic passports is higher than the general purpose display screen, the two companies in the development process to solve a lot of technical problems. For example, the display material to be able to heat, because the passport display will be with other pages of the passport after plastic processing. The display is very thin and has very good elasticity.

The thickness of the display used in this electronic passport is only 300 microns. The passport page with a display screen with a protective layer of a total thickness of less than 700 microns. As an active matrix color display, each pixel corresponds to an electronic circuit embedded in the material.

This electronic passport does not design power. In fact, the passport screen is powered by a contactless card reader. According to Bundesdruckerei, you can search and display all the information stored in the passport, such as text information, usually includes passport holders passport and passport in the dynamic image includes passport holder's personal information, such as name, address and immigration records. Bundesdruckerei through the use of encryption technology to read and change the contents of the electronic passport protection.

The electronic passport is the first batch of Samsung and Bundesdruckerei. technology cooperation, the two sides said it would further strengthen cooperation in the future.

Bundesdruckerei GmbH was formerly a German national bank voucher and passport printing plant, privatized in 2000.

Source: Electronic Engineering album