Bundesdruckerei shows ePassport with Samsung's flexible AMOLED


Remember Samsung's flexible OLED for ID cards or passports? Bundesdruckerei is showing their e-passport that uses that AMOLED display at CeBIT. It still says "future product", but it seems to get getting closer to production every time we see it.

Bundesdruckerei ePassport with AMOLED photo

 

The display is a flexible 2" QVGA (240x320), 260K color OLED with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. It is very low on power, and actually uses the RF power from the contactless reader - there's no battery at all here.

Bundesdruckerei ePassport with AMOLED closeup photo


 

Samsung and Bundesdruckerei has been working on this e-passport since 2008. Here's a nice video of the display from SID 2009:


 

 
Posted: Mar 08,2010 by Ron Mertens