Meta Materials Previews New KolourOptik Stripe

Meta Materials Inc, a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites and new owner of Nanotech Security, previewed a new technology from its security products business – KolourOptik® Stripe – at the Banknote & Currency Conference.

According to the company, the new nanostructure features of KolourOptik Stripe incorporate more colours, greater movement, and all-angle 3D depth to complement and secure a banknote design story.

‘KolourOptik Stripe is designed to offer optimal banknote security with engaging and intuitive authentication effects,’ said Brian Donnelly, Executive Vice President, Sales at Meta. ‘We look forward to pre-launch discussions with partners, banknote designers, technical experts, policy makers and issuing authorities, as we showcase our new technology and its customisable effects.’ KolourOptik is a patented visual technology that is exclusive to the government and banknote market and combines sub-wavelength nanostructures and microstructures (also known as metamaterials) to create modern overt security features with a unique and customisable optical effect. When introduced, KolourOptik Stripe will be the latest in a line of plasmonic technology products following M2 and KolourDepth™ and is expected to be one of the highest volume applications in the optical metamaterials industry.

The company also offers LumaChrome™ colour shifting thin film, which has already been used as a thread or patch in more than 30 banknote denominations around the world.

Last October, Nanotech Security Corp became a wholly owned subsidiary of Meta Materials Inc. Nanotech specialises in designing, originating, recombining, and mass-producing nanotechnology-based films with application for a wide variety of products and markets. Its customisable patented nano-optics include visual authentication technology with a unique combination of multiple colours, 3D depth and omni-directional movement. The overt and covert security features are nearly impossible to reproduce, says the company, and protect government documents, banknotes and other customer assets.