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Dynamic Cryptography through Plasmon‐Enhanced Fluorescence Blinking.
- Source :
- Advanced Functional Materials; 7/25/2022, Vol. 32 Issue 30, p1-10, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Merging cryptographic primitive technologies and physical unclonable functions (PUFs) have become a new paradigm of one‐way encryption. Herein, the authors report a dynamic PUF cryptographic primitive based on plasmonic fluorescence blinking from single or a few dye molecules embedded within the nanogaps of plasmonic patch nanoantennas. This cryptographic primitive carries two sets of high‐capacity optical codes: the fluorescence blinking of the embedded dye molecules and multi‐color light scattering enabled by the plasmonic nanoantennas. The former allows the generation of temporal binary codes from a large number of individual plasmonic patch nanoantennas by holding either "1" (bright state) or "0" (dark state), while the latter provides a permanent color‐based novenary code that acts as a decryption channel for authentication. Benefiting from the high electromagnetic field localized within the nanogaps and the large Purcell enhancement of the plasmonic nanoantennas, the fluorescence blinking is readily detectable by a common fluorescence microscope with a mercury arc lamp as a low‐power excitation source. The developed dynamic PUF codes are robustly and accurately authenticated by a self‐programmed computer vision algorithm. This study revolutionizes the conventional static PUF encryption to nanophotonics‐based dynamic encryption, opening a new avenue for next‐generation advanced anti‐counterfeiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FLUORESCENCE
ELECTROMAGNETIC fields
BINARY codes
CRYPTOGRAPHY
OPTICAL antennas
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1616301X
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 30
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158165982
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202201372