Covert security coating

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2006-06-14

2009-12-08

Amari, Alessandro (Department: 2872)

Optical: systems and elements

Holographic system or element

Authentication

C359S567000, C283S091000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07630109

ABSTRACT:
A multilayer thin film filter is disclosed an organic dielectric layer serving as a spacer layer in a Fabry-Perot structure. The dielectric has embossed regions of varying thicknesses wherein the thickness within a region is substantially uniform. Each different region of a different thickness produces a different color (shift). The size of one of the embossed adjacent regions is such that the color of said one region is uniform and cannot be seen by a human eye as different in color from the uniform color of an adjacent region thereto, and wherein the color within a region can be seen with magnification of at least 10:1. This serves as a covert color coding system useful as a security device.

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