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Frost & Sullivan Applauds Lamda Guard for Developing Commercial Aircraft Laser Interference Protection with its Revolutionary metaAIR™ Solution

metaAIR™ is a thin film optical filter that blocks laser interference and improves flight safety

LONDON — 4th November 2014 —Frost & Sullivan recognizes Lamda Guard Inc. with the 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership. Lamda Guard’s metaAIR™ is a highly innovative solution that uses an array of nano-particles of specific periodic geometry (called metamaterials) to protect flight crews from laser strikes.

metaAir™’s optically transparent thin film filter is more than 100 times thinner than a human hair, and selectively blocks narrow-band, specific light frequencies by reflection rather than absorption. The technology consists of metamaterials, and can be adhesively applied on existing surfaces such as cockpit windows or windshields.

Current solutions that block laser light are usually standalone products and/or instruments such as laser safety eyewear, which can hamper cockpit instrumentation and pilot performance. Moreover, such solutions require extra investments in night vision equipment such as night vision goggles or head-up displays (HUDs). The metaAIR™, on the other hand, is quick-to-install, long-lasting, and more cost effective.

“Unlike competitors’ existing products, which only provide limited and/or temporary protection, the metaAir™ can be integrated during either aircraft forward-fit or retrofit operations,” said Frost & Sullivan Consultant Thomas Saquer. “It requires minimal integration costs, as it eliminates complex cockpit conversion, training and additional certification.”

metaAir™ drastically improves fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft flight safety without heavily impacting fleet availability, as it does not need lengthy grounding time for integrating the solution. Also, end users do not have to wait for the next generation of safety solutions on future aircraft, metaAir™ can be immediately deployed on existing aircraft.

“Lamda Guard’s vision, innovation and drive are resulting in international recognition for the firm at an industry awards show in Monaco,” said the Honourable Rob Moore, Minister of State
(Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency). “The Government of Canada was there at the outset when the company began its work on a product that offers protection to individuals working in law enforcement, aerospace, defence and beyond. Congratulations to Lamda Guard for their initial breakthrough which is now leading to the development and commercialization of new related technologies that will have global applications.”

Frost & Sullivan 2014 Best Practices Award logo“As a unique participant with an unrivalled solution to improve safety, metaAIR™ could become a standard in the industry and perhaps, even become mandatory with the passing of stricter safety regulations,” said Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Alix Leboulanger.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated innovation in product features and functionality that provides enhanced quality and higher value to customers. The award recognizes the rapid acceptance such innovation finds in the marketplace.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Lamda Guard

Lamda Guard is a subsidiary of Metamaterial Technologies Inc, with offices in Canada and the United Kingdom. It is a leader in commercial applications of nano-structured metamaterials that utilize thin film technology for advanced optical applications in aerospace, security and defence industries. To learn more visit lamdaguard.com.

Angela Steele
Lamda Guard Inc.
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P: +1 (902) 222-7120
T: @lamdaguard

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George Palikaras, President & CEO, Metamaterial Technologies Inc. was invited to a panel discussion at Invest Atlantic, Halifax, Canada. He answered questions on how his company has been working with leading corporate partners to commercialize MTI’s innovations, in particular Lamda Guard’s partnership with Airbus to develop a solution to laser interference in aviation.

From Invest Atlantic website:

“Since 2012, large companies have spent over $128 billion in corporate investment to buy tech start-ups, globally, in their search for talent and innovative technologies. Hear how they utilize corporate investment and M&A as an instrument to access and leverage these new technologies and learn how to position your business to be on the radar for this new wave of investing? Discover how corporate investment compares with venture capital investing and which is right for your business and when. You may be surprised at the answer.

Moderator: Dawn Umlah, Investment Manager, Innovacorp
Guests:
Kevin Woods, Senior Manager, Corporate Investments, Lockheed Martin
Steve Nicolle, CEO, STI Technologies Ltd
Jordan Kyriakidis, Co-founder & CEO, Quantum Research Analytics (QRA)
Patrick Keefe, Partner, Build Ventures
George Palikaras, President & CEO, Metamaterial Technologies Inc.”

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George Palikaras, President & CEO and Maurice Guitton, Executive Board Chair, were pleased to welcome several MTI partners to the Dartmouth office for an informal briefing on the recent events of MTI and its subsidiaries.

Photo (from left to right):  Mr. Stephen Duff, President & CEO, Innovacorp; Mr. George Palikaras, President & CEO, Metamaterial Technologies Inc.; The Honourable Michel Samson, Minister, NS Department of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism;  Mr. Maurice Guitton, Executive Board Chair, Lamda Guard and Mr. Harvey Doane, Director, Defence, Security & Aerospace, Investment Attraction, Nova Scotia Business Inc.

Dr. George Palikaras was a keynote speaker at the 2014 NanoSD (Security and Defense) conference that took place in Avila, Spain, between 23 – 26 September 2014. The talk covered the industrial applications of metamaterials and particularly the nano-composite laser filtering technology, as well as MTI’s novel solar panel enhancement technologies. The conference provides an opportunity to discuss general issues and important impacts of nanotechnology in the development of security and defence, including nanostructures, nanosensors, nano energy sources, and nanoelectronics.

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MTI’s Chief Science Officer Dr. Themos Kallos presented “The Gartner Hype Cycle for Metamaterials” at the 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials 2014) that took place between 25-28 of August 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The talk was under a special session “Industrial Applications of Metamaterials” where key stakeholders presented their ideas about the potential of metamaterials to expand into a commercial and industrial scale.

The Metamaterials Congress is widely recognized as the top scientific conference about metamaterials, attracting the top scientists of the field from around the world.

For more information: http://congress2014.metamorphose-vi.org/

MTI is delighted to be attending through its subsidiary company Lamda Guard, this year's Farnborough International Airshow, which is being held between the 14th-20th July 2014. The Farnborough Airshow is world-renowned event, which is staged every two years and attracts some of the biggest players in the international aerospace industry. The 2012 event saw over 1500 exhibiting companies, 107,000 trade visitors and over US$72billion of confirmed orders or commitments. 
 

Visit us within the Canadian Pavilion – Atlantic Alliance (AAADA) Booth 4/C18f.

 
For more information on MTI's and Lamda Guard's activities at the 2014 Farnborough Airshow, please contact us at info@metamaterial.com 
 

Harper Government Invests in Innovative Projects Across Atlantic Canada through the Atlantic Innovation Fund

With AIF funding, Metamaterial Technologies Inc’s project will develop and commercialize a thin, transparent film that can be applied to the windscreens of airplanes in order to protect against cockpit laser illuminations.

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A new innovative laser shield is being developed for cockpit windscreens to deflect the impact of unwanted light sources on jetliners.

Halifax N.S. (June 4, 2014) – Lamda Guard, a company based in Atlantic Canada, has signed an agreement with leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus to test a breakthrough innovation designed to deflect unwanted bright light or laser sources from impacting jetliner flight paths, and causing pilot disorientation or injury.

Lamda Guard’s innovative thin films utilize metamaterial technology on cockpit windscreens to selectively block and control light coming from any angle even at the highest power levels. “Today marks a milestone in optical applications of nano-composites,” said George Palikaras, President and CEO of Lamda Guard. “Through our collaboration with Airbus we are working to introduce our metamaterial technology, for the first time, as a solution to laser interference in the aviation industry.” The announcement today comes within weeks of the release of an FBI report citing 3,960 aircraft laser strikes in the US in 2013 according to the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA).

Senior Vice President of Innovation Yann Barbaux stated: “At Airbus, we are always on the lookout for new ideas coming from innovative SMEs, such as Lamda Guard. We are very pleased to explore together the potential application of this solution to our aircraft, for the benefit of our customers.”

Over the past year Lamda Guard has been working with the research community at the University of Moncton and the University of New Brunswick, as well as stakeholders, investors and funders to highlight the benefits of nano-composites. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) in particular has played an important role in Lamda Guard’s research and development efforts. In 2012, ACOA assisted Lamda Guard with technology commercialization and recently upgraded its contribution to $500,000 to further assist the company in developing and manufacturing its products for the aviation industry.

“We would like to congratulate Lamda Guard on the partnership they are forging with Airbus,” said the Honourable Rob Moore, Minister of State (ACOA). “Our Government believes in investing in innovation and developing business and trade relationships beyond our borders, as demonstrated by the recently announced Canada-EU and Canada-Korea Trade Agreements.”

The Lamda Guard Airbus partnership marks the first time an optical metamaterial nano-composite has been applied on a large-scale surface.

About Lamda Guard Lamda Guard is a subsidiary of Metamaterial Technologies Inc, with offices in Canada and the United Kingdom. It is a leader in commercial applications of nano-structured metamaterials that utilize thin film technology for advanced optical applications in aerospace, security and defence industries. To learn more visit lamdaguard.com.

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For further information please contact:

Lamda Guard: Leanne Strathdee
902 471 4549
leanne@strathdeeandcompany.ca

Or

Corinne MacLellan
902 209 3234
media@lamdaguard.com
Corinne@solutions-inc.ca

Airbus: Mary Anne Greczyn
1 703 834 3458
maryanne.greczyn@airbus.com

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency: Alex Smith
902-426-9417 / 902-830-3839 (cell)
Alex.Smith@acoa-apeca.gc.ca

May 2014: Lamda Guard attends CANSEC 2014 that takes place in Ottawa.

May 2014: Lamda Guard wins Santander Summer Internship program with University College London.

March 2014: Lamda Guard attends JEC 2014 in Paris, France.

February 2014: Lamda Lux has been awarded an Engage grant from the NSERC with École Polytechnique de Montréal and Professor Christophe Caloz to develop the next generation of LED light sources.

January 2014: Lamda Guard’s NSECR CRD project with academic partners Université de Moncton and University of New Brunswick officially launches to develop the next generation of laser filtering products.

January 2014: Lamda Solar has been awarded an Engage grant from the NSERC with University of Alberta and Professor Sandipan Pramanik to develop the next generation of solar panel technology.

November 2013: Lamda Guard wins NSERC Engage grant to establish new collaboration with Professor Zubin Zacob from the University of Alberta, developing improved laser filtering solutions.

October 2013: Lamda Guard Europe wins second the Leonardo da Vinci industrial internship program from the European Union’s lifelong learning programme.

September 2013: Lamda Guard attends DEFSEC Atlantic 2013 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

June 2013: Lamda Guard wins NSERC Industrial Research Fellowship, adding nanotechnology specialist Deb Mondal to its science team, formerly with University of New Brunswick.

June 2013: Lamda Solar wins Santander Summer Internship program with University College London.

May 2013: Distinguished professor and metamaterials expert Andrea Alù from University of Texas at Austin joins LG’s science advisory board.

May 2013: Lamda Solar wins an NSERC Undergraduate Industrial Research Fellowship award.

April 2013: Lamda Solar files its first patent for the enhancement of the efficiency of solar panels using metamaterials.

March 2013: Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI) is founded. As of March 27th, 2013 Lamda Guard Canada Inc. changed its name to Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and moves its headquarters from London UK to Dartmouth NS, Canada. MTI is an optical metamaterials company that was incorporated to commercialize novel optical nanotechnology components. MTI establishes three wholly owned Canadian federally incorporated subsidiaries: Lamda Guard Inc., which focuses on laser filters, Lamda Lux Inc., which develops novel lighting applications and Lamda Solar Inc., which develops solar panels with enhanced efficiency.

March 2013: Lamda Guard attends JEC 2013 in Paris, France.

March 2013: Lamda Guard has been awarded a third Engage grant from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to foster the development of a research partnership with the Thin Films and Photonics Research Group at the Université de Moncton for the design and fabrication of a novel optical thin film filter.

January 2013: Lamda Guard moves into its new home at Innovacorp’s Technology Innovation Center in Dartmouth, NS.

January 2013: Lamda Guard secured a $332,000 project under the Business Development Program of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) to develop commercialize their transparent laser filtering goggles that utilize metamaterial technology against green lasers.

January 2013: Lamda Guard have been invited to present at NANOMETA 2013 – the 4th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials which took place from the 3rd to the 6th of January at Seefeld, Austria.

October 2012: Lamda Guard has been awarded a $150,000 Industrial Research Assistance Programme (IRAP) grant from the Research Council Canada (NRC) to develop commercial prototypes of the laser filtering goggles using metamaterial technology.

October 2012: Lamda Guard attends the 21st AVSEC World in New York City.

October 2012: Lamda Guard Europe wins Leonardo da Vinci industrial internship program from the European Union’s lifelong learning programme.

May 2012: Lamda Guard has been awarded a second Industrial Research Assistance Programme (IRAP) grant from the Research Council Canada (NRC) to help start developing a collaboration with the Nanocomposites Engineering Group at the University of New Brunswick for the development of a novel optical filtering technology.

April 2012: Lamda Guard has attended META12 - the 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics which took place from the 19th to the 22nd April at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunication in Paris, France.

March 2012: Lamda Guard has been awarded an Engage grant from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to foster the development of a research partnership with the Thin Films and Photonics Research Group at the Université de Moncton for the design and fabrication of a novel optical thin film filter.

March 2012: Lamda Lux files its first patent for the light enhancement technology using metamaterials, targeted for LED sources.

February 2012: Lamda Lux wins the top prize of the CBC’s viewer choice in the New Brunswick R3 Innovation Challenge Competition for its idea of enhancing the efficiency of LED sources using metamaterials.

December 2011: Lamda Guard has been awarded an Industrial Research Assistance Programme (IRAP) grant from the National Research Council Canada (NRC) to help explore the potential of a collaboration with the Thin Films and Photonics Group at the Université de Moncton for the development of novel optical thin film technologies.

November 2011: Lamda Guard has attended ALPA's Laser Illumination of Aircraft Conference that took place on the 27th October in Washington, DC, USA.

October 2011: Lamda Guard files its first patent for the laser filtering technology using metamaterials.

August 2011: Lamda Guard opens Canadian Subsidiary as Lamda Guard Canada Inc.

December 2010: Lamda Guard Ltd is founded in London, UK.

Lamda Guard secured a $332,000 project under the Business Development Program of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) to develop commercialize their transparent laser filtering goggles that utilize metamaterial technology against green lasers.

Dr. George Palikaras, Lamda Guard’s CEO said that "We would like to thank the federal government for their continuing support and commitment to Lamda Guard’s research and product development activities. I would like to personally acknowledge the exceptional quality of ACOA’s staff."
 

Lamda Guard have been invited to present at NANOMETA 2013 – the 4th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials which took place from the 3rd to the 6th of January at Seefeld, Austria.

NANOMETA 2013 brings together the international Nanotechnology, Photonics and Materials research communities where most recent and challenging results and plans were discussed in the informal setting of a glorious mountaineering resort.

Dr. Themos Kallos, Lamda Guard’s Chief Science Officer, presented the latest development in laser filtering technologies for aviation in a talk titled “Metamaterial Laser Filters for Aviation Safety and Security” during the special session Security Applications of Photonic Metamaterials.