Documents management
10 October 2012NANOFORM IS INTEGRATED IN A SAFE CHAIN
Customer data, from their capture from authentic documents or digital files to their engraving etching inside the sapphire wafer, are treated according to the processes and methods as recommended by the AFNOR standard NF Z42-013.
The ultra long life nanoform
10 October 2012A SOLUTION FOR LONG TERM SECURE PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL DATA
For any human organization (companies, institutions) the preservation of information or strategical documents due to their economic, juridical or patrimonial value is a major issue. Risks of loss of this information are increasing on very long-term.
In order to answer to this issue of conservation of digital information with high safety level, ARNANO developed a technology allowing « to reproduce » at a microscopic scale the documents on an extremely stable sapphire wafer. So it guaranties a very long life to the informations. The NANOFORM, sapphire wafer that can contain up to 10 000 A4 pages, is:
- Extremely resistant, it can be stocked in surrounding air during several hundred of years and manipulated without extreme caution or maintenance.
- Forgery proof,
- Readable through the wafer by transparency manually or automatically
- Independent of technological evolutions because documents are not encoded.
- A “document” with probative value
*NANOFORM is made up of a sapphire wafer in the middle of which information is engraved at a microscopic scale and revealed by a titanium nitride coating. These very high performance materials allow the NANOFORM to resist to the most severe attacks:
- Scratches and abrasion (Hardness of 9 on a scale of 10 (diamond))
- Water, saltwater, salt atmosphere, solvent and acid resistant
- UV and electromagnetic radiation resistant
- Thermal resistant (up to 950°C)
Innovation
10 October 2012AN INNOVATION TO DESIGN AND DECORATE SOME OTHER WAY LUXURY PRODUCTS
The ARNANO Company offers a new solution to “print” or engrave pieces of sapphire. This technology allows working at micron scale on sapphire and thin platinum coating. So high resolution decoration (25,400 dpi) or micro-text can be turned out.
In agreement with luxury codes, quality of the materials, perfect execution, discretion and originality, this technology opens the way for new creative fields to decorate sapphire pieces from 10 to 200 mm in diameter. The surface to be decorate (readable through transparent sapphire) should be flat without «pillars” but holes are accepted.
Design manufacturing with high resolution and gray levels combined with the ability to integrate content (message discreet or secret) contribute to give an exceptional character to the final product. It becomes unique (can be customized) and unforgeable.
Examples
10 October 2012EXAMPLES OF « DECORATION PIECES» ACHIEVEMENT
We have already carried out several products for unique applications
A customized back case with customer signature |
A back case for limited edition |
A glass watch dial |
Sapphire plate supporting watch movement |
A mini-flyer (5X5 cm) sapphire made with a synthetic image, graphics and reproduction of building plans |
A customized commemorative medallion |
Les Echos – Des archives à l’épreu
10 October 2012La start-up Arnano a développé une technologie de stockage optique sur des disques de saphir pouvant contenir 8000 pages de texte. Objectif de ce support quasiment indestructible : concurrencer les microfiches d’archivage.
A l’oeil nu, on distingue seulement de petits rectangles gris : ce sont des pages. Sur ce disque mesurant 20 centimètres de diamètre, il y en a environ 8000. Rien de révolutionnaire à l’heure où une bibliothèque tient sur un clef USB ? A un détail près : la galette en question a une durée de vie de deux millions d’années ! Ce nouveau support de stockage pérenne, baptisé “nanoforme”, a été développé par Arnano, une société grenobloise, assaimée du Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA).
