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Among the advantages of Panoramas’ FLAT technologies:
• Solid-state photonic switching technology avoids manufacturing inefficiencies of liquid or gas-phase component display technologies such as LCD and gas plasma, and manufacturing and longevity issues of MEMMS-based technologies. Integrated devices avoid inefficiencies and limitations of multi-stage emission-phosphor technologies such as carbon-nanotube FED.
• Nano-technology fabrication methods implement minimum feature size, manufacturing cost efficiencies, and systems speed and performance.
• Fewer manufacturing process steps, and cheaper process steps, than leading and other emerging technologies.
• Lower fixed capital costs for manufacturing. Faster return on plant and equipment for manufacturing.
• Superior optical control for superior display characteristics. Optimal viewing angle, pixel density for resolution (see feature size advantage above), and brightness.
• The technology applies to both flat panel displays and projection systems. Inherent flexibility in display applications.
• The technology can be both "emissive" and "transmissive." It has virtues typically associated with both types, for maximum efficiency in illumination means and switching means, as opposed to OLED or PLED.
• Displays can be either rigid or flexible. A flexible display is based on a structural platform that will be more robust than other technologies that are developing flexible-substrate display versions.
• Extremely large displays will be enabled than will be possible by current leading or emerging technologies, and attractive price to the consumer.
• Theatrical-quality projection systems will be enabled near term that will make afrodable mass-conversion of theaters from film projection to digital projection.
• Micro-displays are enabled with a potential to leapfrog current resolution standards, for a reasonable cost, among other potential advantages.
• PIC applications incorporate generally-applicable new photonic junction switch.
• PIC technology enables a three-dimensional iC architecture.
• PIC applications maximize benefit from nano-assembly fabrication technologies.
• PIC approach is forward-compatible with quantum computing and other emerging technologies.
• Panorama's IP encompasses not only novel switching technologies, but broadly-applicable photonic components, fabrication methods, and modes of operation.
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Panorama’s commercialization R&D program encompasses the breadth of our IP in photonic switching architectures, for diverse applications.
The focus of Panorama’s commercialization is on switching arrays, but also includes novel components, fabrication methods, and modes of operation.

Summary:
It may sound too good to be true, but for decades CRT was also a clearly dominant television set and computer monitor technology.
We believe FLAT has the potential to repeat history and become a dominant or the dominant new display technology, as well as an important technology in the advent of true PIC’s.

FLAT technology leverages developments in a number of specialized fields of research; the confluence of those fields has been identified as a neglected or under-developed precisely because it falls in a “non-man’s land” between specialties that attract the overwhelming majority of research and engineering dollars.
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Panorama FLAT Limited was founded in 2003 to commercialize groundbreaking photonic switching technologies and products invented and developed over a fifteen-year period by founder Sutherland C. Ellwood, a 20-year veteran of the media and media technology industries.
Panorama was incorporated in Australia, with investment from Australia and North America, in order to leverage its founding strategic R&D partnership with the Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems of Edith Cowan University (ECU), a major research university in Perth, Western Australia.
Panorama’s technology has application in displays, both flat panel and projection, as well as photonic integrated circuits (PIC’s) and other photonic switching components and systems.
The Company intends to both license its technology to consumer mass-market manufacturers under an aggressive “technology label” branding strategy, as well as to manufacture products itself under its own name and brand, for niche (low volume/high price/margin) display and non-display market sectors.
Panorama has assembled a core management team of pioneers and veterans from the display, semiconductor, media and media technology industries, implementing a state-of-the-art virtual supply-chain business model in which internal functionality is “right-sized” and combined with cutting-edge international sourcing and partnering. ECU itself is part of a university consortium that includes and leverages expertise and facilities at Cambridge University in the UK, and other leading universities in Europe and Asia.
Panorama is currently in discussions for sourcing and partnering with over a dozen cutting-edge nano-technology fabrication and materials technologies companies, as well as with Albany Nanotech/SEMATECH North, as part of its total commercialization R&D and manufacturing strategy. Along with the opto-VLSI design team based at ECU, the Company is by this strategy best able to use only the most advanced materials and methods available for the fabrication of prototypes for manufacturing and to add value in the licensing of its IP.
Panorama has recently noted the achievement of proof of concept by the ECU team, and expects to officially declare proof of concept upon the preparation of analytical materials in a package suitable for its licensing program.

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Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems (COMPS) at Edith Cowan University

From the COMPS mission statement:
MicroPhotonics is an emerging scientific, technological, industrial and multidisciplinary field that encompasses classical photonics and recent advances in electro-optical materials, deep sub-micron Integrated Chip (IC) fabrication processes, high speed VCSEL array fabrication, broadband photoreceiver array fabrication, optical substrates, Computer Aided Design and Analysis (CADA), VLSI testing, and even more, to transmit, manipulate, and detect photons (light waves and energy particles) at a microscopic level using software engineering.
Contact:
Associate Professor Kamal Alameh, Acting Director
Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems
Telephone (61 8) 6304 5836
Facsimile (61 8) 6304 5302
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: comps.ecu.edu.au

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Management Team
Sutherland Ellwood, CEO; CTO.
Sutherland Ellwood Jr. is a nineteen-year veteran of the media technologies industries, and has been a leader in several historic developments in those industries, both as a senior technology and production executive within major corporations and as a business founder. He has previously served as an executive at the Walt Disney Company, DreamWorks SKG, and 20th Century Fox.
Mr. Ellwood, the inventor of PanoramaFLAT’s technology, has a long history of invention and technology development in the media technologies arena, including hardware and software systems. Digital graphics technologies successfully commercialized include Automatte, a pioneering algorithmic software-hardware platform for automated image processing, with a highly profitable return from licensing in the U.S.
Mr. Ellwood was a key participant in the ‘animation renaissance’ at Disney in the late eighties, developing critical production methodologies and technologies at animation and digital production through the nineties and into the new country. Mr. Ellwood was a founding executive in a major division of DreamWorks in its formative years, participating in the planning of its historic corporate digital / animation production campus, and in the development of technology strategy.
After turning down a contact renewal at DreamWorks, Mr. Ellwood developed the business and production plans for Fox to go into competition with Pixar in the computer animated entertainment business. Fox was considering sale of a Fox-controlled computer animation production and technology company on the East Coast, when Ellwood was brought in to determine the feasability for transforming that company into a viable competitor for Pixar. Ellwood completed the analysis and then worked to prepare the company for its first computer animated film, ICE AGE, developing all the operating, production and financial plans.
Prior to the formation of Panorama, Mr. Ellwood worked with IDT, a major telecommunications company, to develop their IDT Media division, launched as a virtual production and distribution media conglomerate linking production and development resources around the world. An ambitious effort to begin building an integrated media company on the foundation of digital production (again on the Pixar model), Ellwood served as a member of IDT”s M&A team in acquiring Film Roman, the producer of The Simpsons and King of the Hill, among other deals.

Mr. Ellwood is a graduate of The Wharton School.

James Kehoe, President and COO:
James Kehoe is a decades-long leader and pioneer of the display business, having founded and served as COO and Director of Plasmaco, an innovative manufacturer of state of the art flat paneldisplays. Kehoe founded Plasmaco in 1987 by purchasing IBM’s flat panel manufacturing businessunit, the leader in the world at the time, which he had overseen at IBM for many years prior. Later,he was instrumental in selling Plasmaco to Panasonic/Matsushita, at a substantial profit for investors. His career has spanned three start-up companies; two successful restructurings;mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and raising in excess of $40M in debt and equity financing. Recently, he advised Matsushita on and oversaw a limited production run of at state-of-the-art 61” plasma displays at Plasmaco, a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic.

Keith Davies, Vice President of Marketing and Licensing
Keith Davies is a veteran marketing and sales executive from the consumer electronics industry,with many years of experience in the display markets. He was a national executive for ten years at leading LCD manufacturer Sharp Electronics, and worked on commercialization of Bell Labs technologies at AT&T. He has worked in sales and marketing for a wide range of major
manfacturers, including projection TV pioneer Advent Corporation, Emerson Radio, Harmon Kardon, JBL, Infinity, Sennheiser, Tivoli Audio, and NCT Group.

Ian Spenceley, Executive Director, Advisory Board
Mr. Spenceley is currently the Managing Director of Pure Hubris Ltd., a growing film production/media company (with a large catalogue of intellectual property) based in Perth, Western Australia. Pure Hubris conducts business internationally with partners in Los Angeles, New York and Europe.
Mr. Spenceley was responsible for establishing the original contact with Edith Cowan University, and drew upon his original education in engineering, working with Mr. Ellwood, to put together the Company’s founding partnership in R&D. In addition to serving as a director of the board, Mr. Spenceley serves as Executive Director of the Company’s Advisory Board, leveraging his skills in bridging the technical and media worlds in assisting the company’s business communications and liasing with the company’s many technology partners.

Panorama Labs
Panorama FLAT Limited was founded in 2003 to commercialize groundbreaking photonic switching technologies and products invented and developed over a fifteen-year period by co-founder Sutherland C. Ellwood, a 20-year veteran of the media and media technology industries.
Panorama was incorporated in Australia, with investment from Australia and North America, in order to leverage its founding strategic R&D partnership with the Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems of Edith Cowan University, a major research university in Perth, Western Australia.
Our principal offices are located in the U.S., in the Hudson Valley of New York State, with additional offices in California.

Technology Overview
Panorama’s commercialization R&D program encompasses the breadth of our IP in photonic switching architectures, for diverse applications.
The focus of Panorama’s commercialization is on switching arrays, but also includes novel components, fabrication methods, and modes of operation.
Management Team
Sutherland Ellwood, CEO and CTO.
Sutherland Ellwood Jr. is a nineteen-year veteran of the media technologies industries, and has been a leader in several historic developments in those industries, both as a senior technology and production executive within major corporations and as a business founder. He has previously served as an executive at the Walt Disney Company, DreamWorks SKG, and 20th Century Fox.
Mr. Ellwood, the inventor of PanoramaFLAT’s technology, has a long history of invention and technology development in the media technologies arena, including hardware and software systems. Digital graphics technologies successfully commercialized include Automatte, a pioneering algorithmic software-hardware platform for automated image processing, with a highly profitable return from licensing in the U.S.
Mr. Ellwood was a key participant in the ‘animation renaissance’ at Disney in the late eighties, developing critical production methodologies and technologies at animation and digital production through the nineties and into the new country. Mr. Ellwood was a founding executive in a major division of DreamWorks in its formative years, participating in the planning of its historic corporate digital / animation production campus, and in the development of technology strategy.
After turning down a contact renewal at DreamWorks, Mr. Ellwood developed the business and production plans for Fox to go into competition with Pixar in the computer animated entertainment business. Fox was considering sale of a Fox-controlled computer animation production and technology company on the East Coast, when Ellwood was brought in to determine the feasability for transforming that company into a viable competitor for Pixar. Ellwood completed the analysis and then worked to prepare the company for its first computer animated film, ICE AGE, developing all the operating, production and financial plans.
Prior to the formation of Panorama, Mr. Ellwood worked with IDT, a major telecommunications company, to develop their IDT Media division, launched as a virtual production and distribution media conglomerate linking production and development resources around the world. An ambitious effort to begin building an integrated media company on the foundation of digital production (again on the Pixar model), Ellwood served as a member of IDT”s M&A team in acquiring Film Roman, the producer of The Simpsons and King of the Hill, among other deals.
Mr. Ellwood is a graduate of The Wharton School.
James Kehoe, President and COO:
James Kehoe is a decades-long leader and pioneer of the display business, having founded and served as COO and Director of Plasmaco, an innovative manufacturer of state of the art flat paneldisplays. Kehoe founded Plasmaco in 1987 by purchasing IBM’s flat panel manufacturing businessunit, the leader in the world at the time, which he had overseen at IBM for many years prior. Later,he was instrumental in selling Plasmaco to Panasonic/Matsushita, at a substantial profit for investors. His career has spanned three start-up companies; two successful restructurings;mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and raising in excess of $40M in debt and equity financing. Recently, he advised Matsushita on and oversaw a limited production run of at state-of-the-art 61” plasma displays at Plasmaco, a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic.

Keith Davies, Vice President of Marketing and Licensing
Keith Davies is a veteran marketing and sales executive from the consumer electronics industry,with many years of experience in the display markets. He was a national executive for ten years at leading LCD manufacturer Sharp Electronics, and worked on commercialization of Bell Labs technologies at AT&T. He has worked in sales and marketing for a wide range of major
manfacturers, including projection TV pioneer Advent Corporation, Emerson Radio, Harmon Kardon, JBL, Infinity, Sennheiser, Tivoli Audio, and NCT Group.

Ian Spenceley, Executive Director, Advisory Board

David Cummings, Head of IT
Strategic Partners
Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems (COMPS) at Edith Cowan University

From the COMPS mission statement:
MicroPhotonics is an emerging scientific, technological, industrial and multidisciplinary field that encompasses classical photonics and recent advances in electro-optical materials, deep sub-micron Integrated Chip (IC) fabrication processes, high speed VCSEL array fabrication, broadband photoreceiver array fabrication, optical substrates, Computer Aided Design and Analysis (CADA), VLSI testing, and even more, to transmit, manipulate, and detect photons (light waves and energy particles) at a microscopic level using software engineering.
Contact:
Associate Professor Kamal Alameh, Acting Director
Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems
Telephone (61 8) 6304 5836
Facsimile (61 8) 6304 5302
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: comps.ecu.edu.au


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Sutherland C. Ellwood
CEO (acting), CTO and Technical Director of the Board
P.O. Box 242
Clinton Corners, NY 12514
Telephone +1 845 266 4672
Email: [email protected]
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1 Sarich Way
Technology Park, Bentley
Western Australia 6102