BANKNOTE SECURITY
Next Generation Overt Banknote Security
Authentix nano optic overt technology is redefining banknote security. This new overt feature platform leverages nanostructures and introduces proprietary algorithms to form unprecedented structural color, animation, movement, and visual depth.
This development in nano optics represents a new era in the frontline protection of currency, replacing aging legacy solutions that have been on the market for decades.
QUANTUM stripe™, backed by Authentix’s award-winning Nano Optic technology, is the world’s first fully animated banknote security product that combines multi-directional movement, 3D depth, high-resolution imagery, and multiple plasmonic colors to deliver highly complex visual effects that are easy to authenticate and near impossible to replicate. QUANTUM stripe is at the forefront of future innovation, enabling new dimensions of security and storytelling. It is supported by world-class production capacity, ensuring reliable, high-volume supply for banknote customers. QUANTUM stripe offers central banks and issuing authorities a Level 1 overt banknote security solution that allows flexible choices by being compatible with all substrate types and standard industry application equipment. It is fully customizable for ultimate design integration.
ARTISTRY AMPLIFIES SECURITY
QUANTUM stripe provides one of the highest levels of public engagement while enhancing the overall theme of a banknote through a toolkit of engaging, animated, and intuitive authentication effects. Pure plasmonic color pixels patterned on ultra-thin microstructures bring national symbols to life and create “always-on” effects that are unique, simple to understand, memorable, and highly secure.
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COUNTERFEIT RESILIENCE
Nano-scale origination proprietary algorithms, specialized manufacturing/materials that are not commercially available
FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION COMPATIBILITY
Ultra-thin, surface-applied, and compatible with existing banknote production processes and machinery
MEMORABLE VISUAL EFFECTS
Instantly draw attention and promote a memorable self-authentication experience with fully customizable multi-color design and multi-directional movement
75% THINNER THAN MICRO LENSES
The inherent strength and integrity of nanoscale structures guarantee a sturdy feature with a thickness of < 10 microns
ALWAYS ON
Highly visible, unambiguous plasmonic color easily triggers authentication across wide viewing angles and complex lighting conditions
DURABLE
Highly robust and un-exposed structures formulated to meet or exceed industry standards
This color-shifting film provides exceptional banknote security and intuitive authentication by way of a vivid shift from a single color to a second, distinct and different color based on a slight change in angle of view. As the pioneer in colorshift thin film technology, LumaChrome has been the standard in banknote security for over two decades, circulating on billions of banknotes and is used in 30+ denominations in circulation today.
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PROVEN
LumaChrome security foil has been used in 30 banknote denominations and multiple secure ID applications in over
ten countries
SIMPLE AUTHENTICATION
LumaChrome offers easy, intuitive authentication through a color shift from one color to another. It is simple to explain and easy to recognize at considerable distances, multiple viewing angles, and variable lighting conditions
SECURE
Striking color transitions are extremely difficult to simulate, requiring sophisticated production equipment and specialized knowledge in thin-film optics to produce
DURABLE
LumaChrome experiences virtually no degradation over the lifetime of the substrate and can be readily converted into multiple application formats for integration into banknotes