Resonant-tunnelling diodes as PUF building blocks

  • Ibrahim Ethem Bagci
  • , Thomas McGrath
  • , Christine Barthelmes
  • , Scott Dean
  • , Ramon Bernardo Gavito
  • , Robert James Young
  • , Utz Roedig

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Abstract

Resonant-Tunnelling Diodes (RTDs) have been proposed as building blocks for Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). In this paper we show how the unique RTD current-voltage (I-V) spectrum can be translated into a robust digital representation. We analyse 130 devices and show that RTDs are a viable PUF building block.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8611366
Pages (from-to)878-885
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Volume9
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2021

Keywords

  • authentication
  • identification
  • physical security
  • Physical unclonable functions

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