Holography News articles from August 2011

Holography News archives from August 2011

Holograms from surface plasmons.
August 1, 2011... A group from Osaka University in Japan, led by Satoshi Kawata, has demonstrated a method to make true-color holograms that show the true color from any viewing angle, a near-impossibility with surface-relief holograms and difficult to achieve...

ITW Covid moves in to brand protection with easi [TM].
August 1, 2011... ITW Covid, an established specialist in producing holograms and related optical security features for ID cards and other secured documents, has announced that it is extending its product range in to the brand protection sector. It aims to offer...

The eye of the beholder.(Editorial)
August 1, 2011... When the art historian and connoisseur Bernard Beren-son authenticated a painting, he made himself aware of the way in which his eye roamed over the canvass. Each artist, he maintained, had a signature way of leading one's attention around the...

M-Secure: nextGen security hologram?(Security Product)
August 1, 2011... Photon Light Control LLC (PLC), a New York company, is being set up to develop and commercialise a sophisticated approach to security holograms which it calls M-Secure [TM]. This was invented by Ronald R Erickson, Joel Bock and Eliezer Sandler....

Kurz launches kinegram dynamic.(Security Product)
August 1, 2011... Kinegram Dynamic [R] is the latest in Kurz's optically variable offerings to protect banknotes, and the company chose Banknote 2011, held in Washington DC to launch it. Kinegram Dynamic, which combines Kinegram with micro-optics, joins Kinegram...

The recent rise and fall of K laser.(Corporate News)
August 1, 2011... At the beginning of 2009 K laser's share price was in a trough having fallen from a high of T$44.37 in August 2007 to T$10.50 on January 1 2009. Then the company's fortunes changed, its share price gaining in value to reach a high point of...

API's best results for years.(Corporate News)
August 1, 2011... API indicated to the market prior to its year end in March that it would beat its forecast for the year and it did not disappoint. In the year API disposed of its Chinese production company and the results refer to continuing operations unless...

Billions wiped off markets as stability disappears.(Stockwatch)
August 1, 2011... The disaster of unknown proportions that appeared to have been avoided last month by the Eurozone countries agreeing a new deal to bail out Greece reappeared on the horizon immediately after we went to press. The failure of the US government to...

Holo-pack*Holo-print programme.(Conferences)
August 1, 2011... The programme for this year's Holo-pack * Holo-print[R], the Holography Conference, on the theme Improving Your Odds With Holography, is now available on the website. As previously announced, the event opens on November 9th with a short course...

10 Years ago.(Conferences)
August 1, 2011... DuPont-Label Systems Authentication JV In August 2001 Holography News [R] reported that DuPont Displays, producer of Omnidex [TM] holographic photopolymer, and Label Systems had established a joint venture (believed to be 50/50) to develop...

20 Years ago.(Conferences)
August 1, 2011... Zantac Hologram Case Study In the August 1991 issue Nick Firrell of Glaxo provided a case-study on the use of a hologram to protect Zantac [R], the world's best-selling branded prescription (in most countries) medicine, from counterfeiters....

Automatic examination of optical security features.(Examination Methods)
August 1, 2011... Computer Holography Center Ltd (CHC), run by Prof Alex Goncharsky and Dr Anton Goncharsky and based at Moscow University, has introduced a handheld device for the examination of holograms with a covert laser read able (CLR) image, a type of...