SmartKem shares surge 10.16% premarket after announcing world-first all-organic-transistor biometric sensor with Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

SmartKem surged 10.16% in premarket trading following the announcement of its breakthrough in flexible biometric sensor technology. The company, in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, developed the world’s first all-organic-transistor biometric sensor, which enhances optical detection sensitivity and enables advanced liveness detection to combat fingerprint spoofing. The innovation, set to be presented at the prestigious IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, highlights SmartKem’s progress in commercializing its organic transistor platform for high-performance, flexible sensing applications. The development underscores the company’s leadership in semiconductor materials and positions it to expand into next-generation biometric and optical sensing markets, likely driving investor optimism.