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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Optics
  • Engineering

Background:

  • Counterfeiting poses a significant economic threat, necessitating advanced anticounterfeiting solutions.
  • Existing anticounterfeiting tags often face limitations in production speed, cost, and authentication ease.
  • There is a demand for economical, rapidly produced, and easily verifiable anticounterfeiting tags.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel, universal laser ablation technique for generating anticounterfeiting tags.
  • To demonstrate the ultrafast, mass-producible, and automatable nature of the proposed tag generation method.
  • To validate the security and authenticity features of the laser-ablated tags.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a nanosecond pulsed infrared laser to ablate laser-sensitive materials, creating intrinsic, randomly distributed craters.
  • Optimized laser and scanning parameters to achieve high randomness in tag patterns.
  • Employed pattern recognition algorithms and statistical NIST tests to analyze tag randomness and performance.

Main Results:

  • Generated anticounterfeiting tags with intrinsic, randomly distributed craters in under one second.
  • Achieved high randomness in tag patterns, validated by pattern recognition and statistical analysis.
  • Demonstrated exceptional encoding capacity (approx. 10^391 for single tags) and extremely low false rates (10^-58).

Conclusions:

  • The laser ablation technique offers a practical, economical, and ultrafast solution for anticounterfeiting tag generation.
  • The generated tags exhibit high security due to their inherent randomness and robust authentication capabilities.
  • This method enables straightforward product processing with minimal fabrication costs and high mass-producibility.