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Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2023
Applicant:

Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Stacey L. Franklin, Hawthorne, CA (US);

Kalin Spariosu, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Assignee:

Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G02F 2/02 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0852 (2013.01); G02F 2/02 (2013.01); H04L 9/3236 (2013.01); H04L 9/3278 (2013.01);
Abstract

A physically unclonable function (PUF) device is provided, comprising an excitation source providing light for exciting quantum dots (QDs); a first layer of a material having contained therein a first random distribution of first QDs of a first type that are configured to generate a first color in response to being excited by the excitation source; a second layer of a second material having contained therein a second random distribution of second QDs of a second type that are configured to generate a second color, different from the first color, in response to being excited by the first excitation source, and a detector fixedly attached to one of the first and second layers and configured for detecting a pattern of light emitted by at least one of the first QDs and the second QDs and for providing an output indicative of the detected pattern.


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