Cambridge Display Technology

Who we are

Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is the leading developer of technologies based on polymer light emitting diodes (P-OLEDs). P-OLEDs are designed for use in the latest generation of electronic displays and in lighting products, offering many advantages over the liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and plasma displays now used in flat panel televisions.

CDT is the originator of polymer based OLEDs and has a heritage with a direct line back to the original discovery of organic electroluminescence from polymers at Cambridge University.

Today part of the Sumitomo Chemical Group, CDT has seen significant investment in developing its expertise and infrastructure. It is a globally respected organization running collaborative projects with many of the global consumer electronics companies.

CDT supports its partners in their scale-up from materials know-how through to device development and manufacture, and has built an unrivalled knowledge of the practicalities associated with P-OLED technology.

CDT has made major technology advances by developing new materials with greatly improved performance, and the rate of progress is still growing. It supports all stages of the supply chain by working with partners in materials supply, printer and process development, device driver and backplane producers, to ensure that each stage is optimised for the best possible performance from the final display or lighting device.

The technology has already begun to be commercialized, and is available to today’s product designers, enabling them to create generations of consumer and business products, with exciting new levels of performance.

Core competences

Materials development

Increasing demands in the displays and lighting markets drive our ongoing programme to develop materials for brighter, faster, longer life panels.

Device optimisation and modelling

Sophisticated techniques developed at CDT allow us to maximise the performance of P-OLED materials and devices.

Manufacturing processes

The ability to take formulations through to prototypes and to demonstrate manufacturability is key to our support of the supply chain.

Intellectual property

CDT owns key intellectual property around P-OLED materials, devices and processes, such as inkjet printing, which are used in the manufacture of P-OLED displays.

Our people

The team at CDT is of the highest calibre. Many of our scientists and engineers hold PhDs or other higher degrees. We have published many key technical papers in our specialist scientific fields and in technology applications.

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