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Holst Centre Demos World’s Most Transparent Large-Area Optical Fingerprint Sensor

The optical fingerprint sensor is more than 70% transparent, making it ideal for integrating on top of LCD displays.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Could your car or an ATM recognize you just from your hand? Holst Centre, an open innovation initiative of imec and TNO, has developed a new large-area optical fingerprint sensor that is more than 70% transparent – making it ideal for integrating on top of LCD displays. The new sensor will be publicly demonstrated for the first time at SID’s Display Week 2019 and could allow a wider range of display applications to incorporate biometric security.   The idea of integrating fingerprint scanners ...

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