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Imec, Holst Centre and Cartamundi Introduce Plastic NFC Tag Communicating with Smartphones

The NFC tag is manufactured using IGZO thin-film transistors on a plastic substrate.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

At the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, imec, Holst Centre (established by imec and TNO) and Cartamundi demonstrated a world-first thin-film tag on plastic, compatible with the near field communication (NFC) Barcode protocol, a subset of ISO14443-A, which is available as standard in many commercial smartphones.   The innovative NFC tag is manufactured in a thin-film transistor technology using indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors (IGZO TFT) on a p...

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