Reconfigurable Optical Physical Unclonable Functions Enabled by VO2 Nanocrystal Films

0103 physical sciences 02 engineering and technology 0210 nano-technology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c20803 Publication Date: 2022-01-19T14:48:37Z
ABSTRACT
Optical physical unclonable function (PUF) is one of the most promising hardware security solutions, which has been proven to be resistant to machine learning attacks. However, the disordered structures of the traditional optical PUFs are usually deterministic once they are manufactured and therefore exhibit fixed challenge-response behaviors. Herein, a reconfigurable PUF (R-PUF) is proposed and demonstrated by using the reversible phase transition behavior of VO2 nanocrystals combined with TiO2 disordered nanoparticles. Both the simulation and experiment results show that the near-infrared laser speckle pattern of the R-PUF can be almost completely altered after the phase transition of VO2 nanocrystals, resulting in a reconfigurable and reproducible optical response. The similarity of the response speckles shows an obvious hysteresis loop during the rise and drop of temperature, providing a simple way to regulate and control the response behaviors of the R-PUF. More importantly, the hysteretic characteristic provides a new dimension to describe the challenge-response behavior of the R-PUF besides the laser speckle, providing an effective way to improve the security and encoding capacity of the optical PUFs. The proposed R-PUF can be employed as a promising security primitive for high robustness and high-security authentication and encryption.
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