1. 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

2. Automation Engineering
Content
Introduction
Strategic Focus
Markets
Process
Products
Automation Engineering
Nanoscience Program
Properties of Nanomaterials
Potential Applications
Q&A

3. Introduction
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.
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.
Product Manufacturing in a class 10,000 cleanroom at its facility in Spiddal Co. Galway, Ireland
Machine Engineering (mechanical design and software development) as well as machine assembly in Füssen/Allgäu, Germany

4. AmaTech - Intelligence in Contactless Communication
Strategic Focus
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.
AmaTech - Intelligence in Contactless Communication

5. Markets
Secure Access and Financial Payment Cards

6. Markets
Personal Identification and National Identity Cards

7. Markets
Electronic Passports

8. Markets
Security Features in RFID enabled Products

9. Contactless Credit Card
Process
Process Technology: High Frequency (13.56 MHz) Transponders
Embedded Antenna
Chip Module (Packaging of the silicon device)
Leadframe
TRANSPONDER
RFID chip connected to an antenna
Mould Mass
Antenna
Contactless Credit Card

10. Next Generation of Financial Payment Cards (Debit/Credit)
Products
Next Generation of Financial Payment Cards (Debit/Credit)
AmaTech’s Reactive Coupling Technology is the solution!
Reactive Coupling eliminates the physical connection between the IC module and the in- Card antenna

11. The Technology - Dual Interface Card Construction
Products
The Technology - Dual Interface Card Construction
EMV Financial Payment
Smart card (Dual Interface)

12. Products Government - Identity & Security Product Range
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 request
Electronic Passport Datapage (HF)

13. Automation Engineering
Core Competencies: Product Development and Machine Engineering
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.

14. Automation Engineering
Scribing wire into synthetic material to create an array of RFID Antennas

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

16. Automation Engineering
Laser Ablation of Polymers
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

17. Submergence in a Postgraduate Course of Study at Trinity College
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!

18. 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°C
SILVER: ~ 3 nm -> 120°C > 100 nm -> 960°C
Improved energy storage capability (e.g. Batteries and super- capacitors)
Silver Nanoparticles
Liquid phase suspensions
in 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

19. Potential Applications
Graphene – a special nanomaterial
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
200 nm
Inkjet printable – electrically conductive tracks and antenna structures
500 nm

20. Electronic ink to replace barcode
Potential Applications
Use of nanomaterials and nanostructures in secure RFID Products
Interconnection Technology
Low temperature bonding
Coating 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 rates
Passive Devices
Antenna structures
RLC circuits to form bits of information
Anti-counterfeiting measures
Combining nanomaterials with legacy printing technology
Electronic ink to replace barcode

21. Potential Applications
Covert Security Features: Transparent Nano Networks
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.

22. Potential Applications
Passive circuits: Laser etched silver nanowire circuits

23. Potential Applications
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 ??

24. Ferrite flakes Imaging cylinder Flake wave Magnetic scavenger
Potential Applications
Magnetography – how it works
Magnetic particles attracted to magnetized domains on a drum – transferred to a given substrate
Ferrite flakes
Imaging cylinder
Magnetic conveyor
Deflector blade
Flake sump
Flake wave
Magnetic scavenger

25. Q&A
Questions and Answers

26. European Contact Details:
AmaTech Corp
European Contact Details:
Unit 7, Spiddal Industrial Estate,
Baile an tSagairt, Spiddal,
Co. Galway
Ireland
Telephone:
Fax:
US Contact Details:
PO Box 13133
Akron OH, 44334
Telephone