Abstract
AbstractA significant impediment to the deployment of anti-counterfeiting technologies is the reliance on specialized hardware. Here, anti-counterfeiting labels are developed that are both excited and detected using a smartphone. The persistent luminescence pattern and color changes on the timescale of hundreds of milliseconds to seconds. The labels can be authenticated by comparing still images from the red and green channels of video acquired at known times after flashlight excitation against expected reference patterns. The labels are based on a green-emitting SrAl2O4: Eu2+,Dy3+ (SAED), and red-emitting CaS:Eu2+ phosphors whose lifetimes are varied: (i) for SAED from 0.5 to 11.7 s by annealing the commercial material in air; and (ii) CaS:Eu2+ from 0.1 to 0.6 s by varying the dopant concentration. Examples of anti-counterfeiting labels exhibiting changing emission patterns and colors on a seven-segment display, barcode, and emoji are demonstrated. These results demonstrate that phosphors with visible absorption and tunable persistent luminescence lifetimes on the order of hundreds of milliseconds to seconds are attractive for anti-counterfeiting applications as they allow authentication to be performed using only a smartphone. Further development should allow richer color shifts and enhancement of security by embedding further covert anti-counterfeiting features.
Funder
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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