Insights into New OVDs

Dr Mark Deakes - Director of Optical & Technologies General Secretary of the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA)

Reconnaissance International 1 Disclaimer: Agenda • The International Hologram Manufacturers Association • What is an Optically Variable Device? • OVDs • ID OVDs • Tax stamps, and Packaging OVDs • The Hologram Image Register (HIR) The International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA)

IHMA Chairman: Manoj Kochar E-mail:[email protected] www.ihma.org

Fast Facts Member Benefits • A not-for-profit industry association • The Hologram Image Register (HIR) founded in 1993. • IHMA Patent Bulletin. • Represents the interests of hologram • Tender Alerts & Sales Leads. manufacturers and the global hologram • News® (monthly). industry. • Publicity & . • Now has over 100 members of the world’s • Discount to the The Holography top-tier hologram producers. Conference™. • Members are strictly vetted prior to • Demonstrates commitment to ethical acceptance. business practices and quality • Code of Practice for members. products. What is an Optically Variable Device?

Optically Variable Devices (OVDs)

Dictionary definition: “An optical variable device or optically variable device (OVD) is an iridescent image that exhibits various optical effects such as movement or color changes. OVDs cannot be photocopied or scanned, nor can they be accurately replicated or reproduced. The OVD is often used as a security device and anti-counterfeiting measure on money, credit cards and identification cards. OVDs can be created through a combination of and embossing.” Not all OVDs are iridescent… Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_variable_device What is Iridescence?

Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the property of certain surfaces that appear to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.

Photo by Mila Zinkova Source: wikipedia.org Types of Optically Variable Devices (OVDs)

Non-Iridescent OVDs Iridescent OVDs

Watermarks Lens Arrays & Diffractive (DOVIDS*) Interference thin film Moiré Grating Structures Structures

First Order Structures Zero Order Structures Single Layer Multi-Layer Structures Structures Zero Order Devices Diffractive Identifcation Soap Film Peacock Feathers Device (DID) OVI Bragg structures Volume Holograms Coextruded Foils Hologram 3D Flat Artwork Laser Holograms Liquid Crystals

Fourier Holograms(Kinoforms) Multiplane 2D/3D 3D Rainbow Hologram Image Elements *DOVIDS= Diffractive optically variable image device Holographic Stereogram Dot Matrix Blazed Gratings Banknote OVDs

What’s New?

Design Feature Volume Windows Integration Integration Holograms Banknote OVDs New Banknote Series– Integrated Design & Windows (€20 & 50)

Registered stripes utilises Kurz KINEGRAM Review® Viewed in transmission technology that displays two different diffractive designs on the front and the reverse of the transparent window and a third image in transmission. Banknote OVDs Fabriano Securities – VistɅ™ Integrated Design & Windows

Viewed in reflection The VistɅ holographic demetalised stripe is registered to the window in the banknote. Similarly to the KINEGRAM Review® in the window two different holographic images, that do not interfere with each other, can be viewed in reflection, on the front and back face of the window. A third Viewed in transmission image is visible in transmission.

Source: Currency Conference 2015 Vancouver. Banknote OVDs Polymer ‘Brighter Money Series’ – Integrated Design & Holographic Windows

The demetalised holographic window feature incorporates KINEGRAM ZERO.ZERO® technology developed and supplied by Kurz, and is applied as a patch onto a clear window in the Guardian® polymer substrate supplied by CCL Secure. Source: Holography News® Sept 2015. Banknote OVDs Polymer Banknotes – Integrated Design & Holographic Windows

The partially demetalised top-to-bottom holographic window can be viewed from both sides, incorporates KINEGRAM ZERO.ZERO® technology developed and supplied by Kurz.The Guardian® polymer substrate is supplied by CCL Secure.

Source: Holography News® Sept 2016. Banknote OVDs Bank of England £5 & £10 polymer– Integrated Design & Holographic Window The demetalised holographic foil stripe window feature incorporates KINEGRAM COLORS® technology developed by Kurz, and is applied onto Guardian® polymer substrate supplied by CCL Secure. The Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) is gold on the front and silver on the back. Source: Holography News® June 2016. Incorporated 3 metallic colours: gold, silver & copper. Winchester Cathedral is gold on the front and silver on the back. £ symbol is silver on the front and copper on the back Both the £5 & £10 incorporate a Coronation Crown that appears 3D on both notes. Source: Holography News® August 2017. Banknote OVDs LATITUDE® from CCL Secure LATITUDE is an OVD window feature that is generated directly into the polymer substrate surface. No hot stamping foil process is required. Silver nano-particles are integrated into the substrate layer.

Source: High Security Printing Conference, Hungary 2015. 20 –Zloty Regional Banknote of the Year Award 2015.

Commemorative banknote: The Centenary of the Formation of the Polish Legions 2014. The 200 Córdobas is the world’s first circulating banknote to feature an image in LATITUDE. LATITUDE is not restricted to patch or stripe formats.

Source: High Security Printing™ Latin America Conference Mexico, 2016. Nicaragua series, Regional Banknote of the Year Award 2016.

Source: Banco Central De Nicaragua. Banknote OVDs Volume Holograms

Foreground High Resolution Background Kinegram® VOLUME® Hologram Registered stripe with dual colour Kinegram®with VOLUME ® hologram partial de-metallization Kinegram® zero.zero® combined with Kinegram® VOLUME® DOVID

Combination of VOLUME® hologram with de-metallised Kinegram® Source: “A Photopolymer-based OVD for Banknote Applications” Wayne R. Tompkin & Andreas Schilling ODS 2010. Banknote OVDs Volume Holography – & Switzerland 50 Shekel banknote (2014), was the first note to feature KINEGRAM VOLUME®, followed by the 200. The Shekel foil stripe features holographic images of the note denomination. Source: Holography News® Feb 2016. 20 & 100 Shekel banknote announced for issue this year. Source: Holography News® Feb 2017.

The 50 note is the first in the world to feature a two colour (red & green) KINEGRAM VOLUME® foil stripe that is combined with a partially metallised KINEGRAM® provided by Kurz. The banknote is printed on a 3-layer substrate - Durasafe® provided by Lanquart. Source: Holography News® April 2016. This was followed by the 20 CHF and this month the 10 CHF

note. Source: Holography News® May 2017. Volume Holographic Threads from Krypten 3DaiD- NipponGram (DNP)-C also have been active in this area with3D photopolymer-Gram-C threads

R+G holographic image «100» with «floating» image;

R+G holographic image «100» with «shadow» effect;

R+G+B holographic image «100».

Source: HSP Europe, Bucharest, March 2016, & Holography News® Feb 2016. Other Banknote OVD Developments Louisenthal’s:RollingStar®, RollingStar® LEAD,Varifeye® & Galaxy®

RollingStar® LEAD combines all of the above and demetallisation into a single structure transfer foil. Micro-mirror array Source: Holography News® Nov 2016. RollingStar® thread utilises micro-mirrors Source: HSP Lima, June 2015. Asterium from Toppan Printing Varifeye® ColourChange & Asterium from Toppan printing in Japan is a ‘diffractive black’ Galaxy® structure. Viewed in normal direct Varifeye – translucent and light this feature appears black transparent window foil feature but when inclined at an extreme that utilises micro-mirrors. angle, the rainbow colours of the DOVID appear. Galaxy – combines movement, colourshift and 3D & micro-mirrors into a thread Source: The Currency Conference 2017 Animation by Rudolf van Renesse Other Banknote OVD Developments ColorDance™& ColorDance-Shift™ threads from ZSST* ColorDance thread ColorDance-Shift combines provides a dynamic and ColorDance and colorshift into a parallax effects combined single structure providing: dynamic with stable colours. Patch image & text, a colorshifting & stripe also available. background and different colors between the image & background. Source: The Holography Conference, Shanghai, 2015 Source: HSP Mexico, 2016. * Zhongchao Special Security Technology KINEGRAM®: COSMIC, FLUX & HDM from KURZ COSMIC - acronym standing for COlor Shift MetallIC.

FLUX – foil patches movements in a wide selection of colours. Combines intricate shapes and transparent areas created by partial metallisation. HDM - extremely clean and precise partial metallisation and line resolution. Other Banknote OVD Developments DID Wave® and DID Virtual from SURYS The 20 Zloty commemorative note is the first in the world to showcase SURYS’ new Diffractive Identification Device (DID) features, namely DID Wave™ and DID Virtual™. The black floral motif changes colour on rotation. Available as a thread and as window patch feature. Source: Holography News® May 2016. Plasmogram™ and Plasmogram™ Tricolor from SURYS Plasmon resonance is the collective oscillation of electrons in a solid or liquid stimulated by incident light. The resonance condition is established when the frequency of the light photons matches the natural frequency of the surface electrons.

Source: “Authentication of Security Documents: Road to Revolution” by Hughes Souparis of Hologram Industries/Surys at High Security Printing Asia, Manila, January 15th 2015 & The Holography Conference, Warsaw, 2016. Other Banknote OVD Developments: Non-Iridescent Micro-optic OVDs : Motion® From Crane Lens array overlay 4 mm thread When rotating about a vertical axis, the parallax has vertical movement, when rotating about a horizontal axis, the parallax has a horizontal movement. This orthoclastic movement is counter-intuitive because it is at right angles to normal parallax.

$ image element array Animation by Rudolf van Renesse General layout of a cross section of the Motion® feature Swedish 1000 crown 2006, (Patent US 2005/0180020 A1) with Motion feature. Micro-lens array top layer and a $-icon array bottom layer. Other Banknote OVD Developments: Non-Iridescent Micro-optic OVDs : Motion® Rapid From Crane RAPID lenses: 1/3 size of MOTION lenses 3 x the movement

MOTION RAPID Source: 200 Kroner note, Crane Currency Source: Crane Currency Surface From Crane Micro-optic stripe feature, applied using an Optinota and the carrier film removed. A combination of different effects are possible to create maximum engagement.

Source: HSP Latam Guatemala, 2017 Other Banknote OVD Developments: Non-Iridescent Micro-optic OVDs : SUSI Optics™

Foil based feature with lens based micro-optics

• SUSI Optics™: cooperation feature with KBA-NotaSys, LenSys, Kurz, Note Printing Australia, Sicpa and De La Rue support for polymer banknotes

• Foil includes perfectly shaped lenses and is applied over offset print creating unique and striking effects Source: Currency Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2017 Other Banknote OVD Developments: Non-iridescent Micro-Optic OVDs : Horizon® From CCL Secure

Lens Image

Easy authentication through large and obvious colour- switching images.

HORIZON® 35µ dots HORIZON is a lenticular technology that uses 12µ lens that provide excellent mechanical strength; HORIZON uses the entire depth of the substrate making extraction or reapplication of the feature very difficult. Image can be up to 20mm wide enabling large contrasting switching images. Source: CCL Secure Other Banknote OVD Developments Micro-optic OVDs : Kinegram® DynaMic From OVD Kinegram

Sample of a Kinegram® DynaMic stripe on a sample banknote (2010). The central section of the stripe contains a conventional Kinegram® with typical kinematic diffractive fine-line effects. In the top and bottom sections the device displays a dynamic horizontal movement of a size-changing denomination “20” when the sample is tilted either from left-to-right or up-and-down.

Source: “Dynamic 1-D moiré features for banknote and document security” Andreas Schilling & Wayne R. Tompkin,, ODS 2010. Other Banknote OVD Developments - Inks Magnetically Optically Variable Inks (MOVI) – from SICPA SPARK®

Animations by Rudolf Van Renesse SPARK® Orbital™ SPARK® Live SPARK Live similar technology to SPARK but uses smaller pigments and a modified magnetisation module. A wide range of effects and design

Source: Courtesy SICPA, Switzerland. opportunities. Source: Courtesy De La Rue, UK. ID OVDs

What’s New?

Poly Design Opto- Embedded carbonate Integration digital OVDs & Windows ID OVDs Optical Smart™ from Surys Surys has combined optical authentication and smartphone usage into a high security opto-digital foils called Optical Smart™ ID :Optokey™ and Flashcard™.

Optokey OVDs combine a digital data matrix code with a high definition micro image that is part of the holographic security design. Using a dedicated app specific images and properties from the OVD can be authenticated without the need for an internet connection.

Optokey on an ID card showing a magnified holographic micro image and 2D . Flashcard™ is similar to Optokey.

Provided the hologram is genuine: • Is able to access a central database and identify and track and trace the bearer identity. An example of Flashcard functionality, courtesy of surys. • The bearer’s picture on the card can then be checked and authenticated to Source: Holography News® June 2016. the picture held on the database. ID OVDs OVD Kinegram - Kinegram Digital Seal • Encodes the biographical data found in the optical character recognition (OCR) line from an into QR code that can be read using a smartphone. • The QR code (can be encrypted if required) and is protected against counterfeiting or manipulation by the use of a Kinegram optical structure and the Kinegram Digital Seal reads the Kinegram and Kinegram features before information read using an intelligent smartphone app verification. that does not require any special add on devices. Source: Holography News® August 2016. De La Rue (UK) & DNP - photopolymer SHIELD Volume™ RPC Krypten (Russia) - photopolymer laminate 3D Gram-M The 3D Gram-M overlay has a bright reflectance at discreet angles and undergoes a colour change from green to gold and finally red when viewed at acute angles.

Source: Holography News® July 2015. Source: Holography News® Dec 2016 & May 2017. IHMA Excellence in Holography Awards Commended in the in holographic technology category, 2016. Photopolymer Volume Reflection OVD Photographic Pre-recorded exposure grating hologram

Photopolymer Volume Reflection Holograms Photosensitive With exposure, adhesive diffuses into hologram adhesive 1. Low 2. Average 3. High swelling swelling swelling Final image curing by UV radiation

The image is created by swelling the volume hologram as a function of common photographic exposure. p = 0,24 µm p = 0,27 µm p = 0,30 µm Source: HoloID®; Surys, France ID OVDs DID™ Shape from Surys Surys has developed a FULL FACE DOVID embedded in the polycarbonate document.

The DID image elements are spread over the ID document surface. The image elements are fused into the card. Source: The Holography Conference, 2016, courtesy of Surys. ITW - Holoprint

proID from IQ Structures Optaglio OVImage™ The DOVID image Micro-holograms elements are embedded in the HoloPrint customisable spread over the ID card or hot stamped. laminate patch for PVC, PC, document surface PET and composite cards. and fused within the body of the card. Source: Holography News® Apr 2017. Source: HSP EMEA, 2017, Baku. ID OVDs Opalux - OpalPrint Polycarbonate KINEGRAM® PCI, PRIME & HDM

KINEGRAM PRIME is print & metal in perfect register. Source: Opalux 2017. KINEGRAM RECOLOR® & REVIEW®

Andrews & Wykeham - FLO-MO™ KINEGRAM HDM is a new A holographic product developed as a metallisation hot-stampable inlay for polycarbonate technology, (PC) cards and datapages that can be resolution line used in transparent windows. widths down to Dual parallax feature enables the image 10-15 microns. to move L-R whilst also moving up and

Source: Holography News® Oct 2016. down. Tax Stamps, Labels & Packaging OVDs

What’s New?

Track & Adoption of Fresnel Serialisation Trace Standards Lenses Tax Stamps, Labels & Packaging OVDs Track and Trace What is Track? What is Trace? Definition: ‘track refers to the concept of Definition: ‘trace refers to the ability to marking an individual item with a identify the past or current location of an serialisation code (or UID) so that it can individual item’. be monitored from the point of production up to the point of sale to the customer, including each step in between thereby creating a complete time and location history for that item’.

The 2 definitions combine to form traceability One scan can validate different features of the tax stamp including the OVD! OVD Tax Stamps & Labels – Many Providers! 1. DROP™ (Digital Recognition of Pattern) from 12.Hologram Company, RAKO Surys/Hologram. Industries 4.0

2. Secutrace®/ TRUSTCODE® from Kurz

3. Holoseal® from Andrews & Wykeham / 13. HOLOSTIK Advanced Track & Trace 14.Holoflex 4. HoloQR from Holoptica 15.Matrix Technologies 5. Holotronic Seal™ from Bowater 16.Garsu Pasaulis 6. Optrace, serialised photopolymer 17. AM-PG 7. HoloTag from MTM 18.NovaVision 8. SecureITT & eTRACS from Opsec & Xerox 19.Opsec Insight 9. Authentic Vision 20.Securikett 10.Teso Scribos 21.Uflex 11.Dupont/De La Rue 22.Dai Nippon Packaging OVD Examples Unifoil - Fresnel Lens Fresnels Inc – Hot Uflex - Fresnel Lens Hazen Stamping Fresnels Lens Company- Envirofoil® Foils & Hazen-Lens™

Unifoil’s Be Joyful decorative display cube with Fresnel lens. AIMCAL 2016 award winner. 1 and 2 show examples of packaging incorporating Fresnel lens film whilst 3 shows an example of Fresnel lens film. Dupont / De La Rue – Izon® 3D photopolymer packaging and Kurz – Multicolor, Duocolor labelling film & TRUSTCONCEPT® API - Holonique™ for TRUSTSEAL®, Morphotonix brand enhancement & TRUSTCOLOR® HologramCap differentiation The IHMA Hologram Image Register (HIR)

• The Jewel in the IHMA crown, operated by the Criminal intelligence Bureau (CIB). Online submission!

• A record of registered hologram images in use, around the world.

• Helps to prevent members inadvertently copying holograms they would otherwise not know of.

• Helps to identify attempts to source copy holograms and pursue the offenders.

• No other authentication/security product has such a register. Conclusion

• Innovation in the OVD sector is thriving with many new features/products and technologies coming to market.

“Innovation is the difference between leaders and followers” Steve Jobs

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