A new anti-counterfeiting feature relying on invisible luminescent full color images printed with lanthanide-based inks

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 5029-5036

  Andres, Julien ^a   Hersch, Roger D ^a   Moser, Jacques Edouard ^a   Chauvin, Anne Sophie ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

color reproduction; counterfeit prevention; inkjet printing; invisible inks; lanthanide dipicolinates; lanthanides; luminescence; luminescent halftones

Indexed keywords

COLOR; EUROPIUM; INK; INK JET PRINTERS; LIGHT; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TERBIUM;

COLOR REPRODUCTION; COUNTERFEIT PREVENTION; INVISIBLE INK; LANTHANIDE DIPICOLINATES; LUMINESCENT HALFTONES;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84906544263     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201400298     Document Type: Article

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