Products
Secure microSD cards
We design and produce customised secure microSD cards tailored for your needs.
Current product is LGM Card.
LGM Card is a standard size microSD memory card with built-in NFC antenna and two secure chips. LGM Card is used while inserted in SD slot of a mobile phone. It would – provide NFC capability even to feature phones. It can store sensitive data on its secure chips (e.g. a client certificate, ID card, transit card or a bank card). LGM Card would enable a variety of contactless and remote mobile use-cases with a tamper resistant security and under full control of the issuer.
LGM Card was certified by NPCI India in July, 2019 – LoA.
Contact our expert team to discuss LGM Card business and technical details.
Micro Coil NFC Antennas
Micro coil NFC antennas are off-the-shelf NFC antennas that eliminate major considerations for NFC antennas – placement, layout and RF performance. It would not limit shape of your products. It would save effort required for antenna design and individual model modifications. It occupies in average 80% less space than NFC planar antennas and still it offers great multidirectional NFC performance. It reduces BOM, simplifies antenna tuning under the cover and lowers assembly costs.
Benefits
- reduced size occupying approximately 80% -90% less area than conventional antennas with similar performance
- great performance as it works stably and it transfer signals in all directions even in the presence of metallic materials which usually degrade the signal transmission quality of common antennas on the market
- saving effort required for NFC designs and as individual model modifications as it is not necessary to adjust the arrangement of metallic components near to the antenna
- reducing BOM by removing the ground plane and ferrite shielding
- easy mounting as it has electrodes at both ends, the antenna is capable of reflow soldering and surface mounting, and thus requires no additional pin connectors. Micro coil antenna can be picked from a tape and directly placed on PCB
- affordable price with reduced BOM, save up efforts on tuning, mounting and new design development for modified products this in total make the cost comparable with standard NFC antennas
Portfolio of micro NFC coil antennas
The basic product has sizes L: 9mm x W: 0,93mm x T: 0,785mm. Samples of 9mm antennas from automated production are available. Other sizes of piece produced samples* are available for testing in limited volumes.
The antennas are designed by Logomotion and produced in Slovakia, EU. Automated production of customized sizes of the coil antennas can be discussed for volume orders.
Micro coil NFC antennas portfolio (L x W x T):
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Placement and Layout
Achieving satisfactory NFC performance in smartphones (CE and R/W modes) the micro coil antennas would save approximately 80% -85% from the area of conventional NFC antennas with comparable performance.
Example 1 – Placement of original antenna (left) and micro coil antenna (right)
Example 2 – Placement of original antenna (left) and micro coil antenna (right)Simplifying Design Work
The micro coil NFC antennas are tiny and it is not necessary to adjust the arrangement of metallic components near to them. Coil antennas are not much sensitive to the product’s casing. Coil antennas would limit steps needed to achieve matched and tuned NFC system and save effort for individual model modifications.
Because of its small size, multi-directional NFC performance and simple mounting – the micro coil NFC antenna can be placed in any part of the PCB
With the micro coil NFC antenna only general tuning for NFC controller is required; no additional tuning of individual product models needed
Assembling and reduced BOM
Unlike with planar NFC antennas ground plane and ferrite shielding are not needed.
The micro coil NFC antenna is SMT component that can be easily “picked & placed”. The coils are packed for delivery into reels.
With a few capacitors the micro coil NFC antenna can be tuned for the particular NFC controller. Coil antenna can be placed directly on PCB. As the coil antenna has electrodes at both ends, the antenna is capable of reflow soldering and surface mounting. It does not require additional pin connectors.
This makes assembly costs and effort lower compared to NFC antennas that are using external connectors or 3D structures.
Performance in metal housing objects
Planar antennas have limitations to communicate in metal covered objects.
Narrow but long rod ferrite micro coil NFC antenna emits the energy in the horizontal axis very strongly.
The intensity of the magnetic field reaches its maximum at the ends of the ferrite core. The below picture shows how the magnetic field passes through the narrow (0,05 mm) slits of the metal cover and gets back into the ferrite to be closed into loops.
Micro coil NFC antenna in metal housing – the emitting diagram
Influence of Metal
Coil antennas have stable performance in metal environment. Inductance of 9mm coil antenna when supplied with current of 100mArms in open air is 1,25µH while in a metal environment is 1,2µH
From approximately 3 mm distance between a metal plate and the antenna the influence of the metal on the antenna inductance is negligible, see 9mm coil antenna results in the graph below:
Properly designed metal housing may even increase the effectiveness of the antenna performance.
Electrical Features
Electrical features of the micro coil NFC antennas were measured on NFC antenna measurement system (using AWG Rigol, VNA OMICRON, oscilloscope Agilent)
We can provide antennas with other inductance value if it is recommended for particular NFC antenna products.
Production of coil antennas
We are ready to discuss micro coil NFC antennas mass production.
Contact our expert team to design micro coil NFC antennas customized for your
future NFC enabled products.
Contact us
Headquarter:
Logomotion, s.r.o.
Winterova 15
921 01 Piestany
Slovak Republic
Phone:+420 602 725 438
Email: contact@logomotion.eu