Nanotech's Award-Winning Nano-Optic Toolkit

Canadian company Nanotech has been causing quite a stir in recent months with a succession of successful authentication programmes using its toolkit of nano-optic based visual effects. The Holography Conference Online 2021 (THCO 17 – 18 November) provided the perfect opportunity for Neal Skura, Director of Product Management to open the toolkit and take a look inside.

Neal’s starting premise in his paper titled ‘Combating Counterfeits with a Toolkit of Authentication Effects’ was that anti-counterfeit technologies continue to be important as the economic, health and safety impacts of fake goods continues to rise. Neal shared a startling statistic that one in three consumers will have purchased fake goods – either knowingly or otherwise. To be effective in curbing this trend, overt optical security must be both easy to authenticate and difficult to simulate.