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Micaal Sidorov

20 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Filtrona Tapes Releases Supastrip Prism

Filtrona Tapes has released Supastrip Prism, a new range of holographic tear tapes designed to enhance packaging security and draw attention on the shelf.

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Micaal Sidorov

20 Feb. 2024

3 min read

The Holographic Lecture Theatre

In a previous article covering the use of holography in teaching and education (see The Holographic Classroom, HN June 2023), we followed the technology’s early applications in representing 3D objects to its integration into mixed reality. In this article, we delve deeper into one particular application, AI holographic avatars in the lecture theatre.

Technical Features

Micaal Sidorov

20 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Holography Gives New Depth to Fingerprint Analysis

In a ground-breaking departure from conventional fingerprint analysis, recent research introduces a shift in thinking through the collaboration between Penn State and Prof Partha Banerjee of the University of Dayton.

Technical Features

Micaal Sidorov

20 Feb. 2024

3 min read

Packaging Solutions from India Point to More Sustainable Holography

Uflex is India’s largest multinational working in flexible packaging materials. It is a global polymer science company with a turnover of $1.7 billion, and is one of India’s leading providers of holographic solutions used in brand protection, brand enhancement and anti-counterfeiting across a range of industries.

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Micaal Sidorov

20 Feb. 2024

2 min read

IQ Structures Gets Some Help From AI

IQ Structures, a research and manufacturing organisation focused on controlled nanostructures, has started using artificial intelligence (AI) to support its creative staff during the design of its DOVIDs (diffractive optically variable image device).

Technical Features

Micaal Sidorov

17 Jan. 2024

2 min read

Meta’s New Sustainable Brand Protection Label

Hot from successes in the ‘Best Origination’ and ‘Best in Show’ categories at the recent International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) awards, Meta Materials is bringing its expertise in advanced materials and nanotechnology to the field of brand protection labelling, with its new product – NANO™ protect.

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Micaal Sidorov

17 Jan. 2024

2 min read

Idvac Introduces Layer-by-Layer Nano-Etching Technique for Multispectral Colours

Idvac Ltd, based in Manchester, UK, has unveiled a ground-breaking method for fabricating bespoke multispectral colours using a layer- by-layer nano-etching process.

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Micaal Sidorov

17 Jan. 2024

3 min read

Plasmonic Metasurfaces Produce Print and Holograms Simultaneously

In the realm of optical technology, a new process is emerging that uses ultrathin plasmonic metasurfaces, capable of simultaneously enabling full-colour printing and holography on a centimetre scale. These metasurfaces leverage photonic spin– orbit interactions excited by surface plasmon polaritons (SPP), opening the door to a new era of high-security applications and mass-produced optical devices.

Technical Features

Francis Tuffy

17 Jan. 2024

7 min read

Then and Now – Financial Cards

In this series of articles using source material from historical and current issues of Holography News® (HN), along with a few other contextual sources, I have so far covered the development of commercial holography for use on banknotes, ID cards, head-up displays and the graphics arts industry. This month, I turn my attention to its use on financial cards.

Technical Features

Francis Tuffy

19 Dec. 2023

3 min read

New IHMA Security Image Register Launched

The Hologram Image Register (HIR), established by the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) to help safeguard hologram copyright and underpin the use of holograms in authentication and security printing, has been extended and relaunched as the Security Image Register (SIR).

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Francis Tuffy

19 Dec. 2023

2 min read

PicoMaster – Innovation Gets Its Just Reward

The PicoMaster-H and PicoMaster XF-H direct laser writers of Raith Laser Systems (formerly 4PICO BV) have a pedigree going back to the days of CD and DVD mastering. Today, the company’s mastering systems are used to make holograms, and other optically variable devices, for the document security, brand authentication, luxury packaging, and product embellishment industries.

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Francis Tuffy

21 Nov. 2023

2 min read

Hazen Scores Another Slam Dunk

For more than 10 years, Holyoke, Massachusetts-based Hazen Paper has worked on the Enshrinement yearbook cover for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In this, the 11th Enshrinement yearbook, Hazen uses their HoloJet® paper to project an amplified refractive three-dimensional image of a basketball symbolizing the Hall of Fame dome.

Technical Features

Francis Tuffy

21 Nov. 2023

4 min read

Innovation Leads to Development – ZSST

In this occasional series of company profiles of members of the International Hologram Manufactures Association (IHMA), we take a look at Zhongchao Special Security Technology Co Ltd (ZSST) and the technologies it has to offer.

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Francis Tuffy

21 Nov. 2023

3 min read

Science and Luxury – Musion3D

The Royal Institution in London is considered to be one of the oldest scientific societies in the world. Over the last two centuries, the building and labs have been home to ground-breaking science engagement, including the world-famous Christmas Lectures1. But for two days at the end of October it housed a demonstration of Musion3D’s heightened reality display – often referred to as holopresence.

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Francis Tuffy

21 Nov. 2023

3 min read

Oberthur Demonstrates Dynamic OVD with New Security Thread

In the Spring of 2023, Oberthur Fiduciaire took out a majority stake in Rolling Optics, which was founded in 2005 with solid technical research at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Technical Features

Francis Tuffy

21 Nov. 2023

3 min read

KURZ Tax Stamp Paper Saves Time and the Environment

Enforcing alcohol and tobacco duty payments using tax stamps is a major source of revenue for governments across the world. The process to make the stamps can often be time consuming and limited to printing firms with specialist equipment. But that could be about to change!

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Francis Tuffy

17 Sept. 2023

2 min read

Holographic Technology Helps Find Needle in a Haystack

Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have invented an augmented reality headset that uses holographic principles to allow humans to ‘see’ through opaque surfaces. The invention, dubbed ‘X-AR’, combines wireless sensing with computer vision and a floating holographic sphere to enable users to see hidden items.

Technical Features

Francis Tuffy

17 Sept. 2023

3 min read

BOBST – Still Innovating After All These Years

Ever since surface relief replication became the preferred means of mass production for holography, hot-stamping foil has been a principal method of application – particularly for packaging and secure documents. The machines used to apply holograms at speed and in register are an integral part of the job’s final appearance. Swiss machinery manufacturer, BOBST, has been involved in providing hot-stamp presses to the holography industry for many years, and continues to innovate to this day.

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Francis Tuffy

17 Sept. 2023

3 min read

Swave’s Holography Vision Raises Additional Funding

eeNews reports that holographic projection startup Swave Photonics NV (Leuven, Belgium) has raised an additional €3 million in seed funding, taking the amount raised by the company to €10 million.

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Francis Tuffy

17 Sept. 2023

3 min read

Quantum Leap for Meta

In Meta Materials Inc’s recent webinar ‘Producing the World’s First Fully Plasmonic 3D Animated Banknote Security Feature’, Vice President, Technology and Innovation Clint Landrock explained the motivation behind Meta’s KolourOptik® Stripe and its toolkit of customisable authentication effects with 3D parallax (see HN May 2023).

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Filtrona Tapes Releases Supastrip Prism

The Holographic Lecture Theatre

Holography Gives New Depth to Fingerprint Analysis

Packaging Solutions from India Point to More Sustainable Holography

IQ Structures Gets Some Help From AI

Meta’s New Sustainable Brand Protection Label

Idvac Introduces Layer-by-Layer Nano-Etching Technique for Multispectral Colours

Plasmonic Metasurfaces Produce Print and Holograms Simultaneously

Then and Now – Financial Cards

New IHMA Security Image Register Launched

PicoMaster – Innovation Gets Its Just Reward

Hazen Scores Another Slam Dunk

Innovation Leads to Development – ZSST

Science and Luxury – Musion3D

Oberthur Demonstrates Dynamic OVD with New Security Thread

KURZ Tax Stamp Paper Saves Time and the Environment

Holographic Technology Helps Find Needle in a Haystack

BOBST – Still Innovating After All These Years

Swave’s Holography Vision Raises Additional Funding

Quantum Leap for Meta

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