Cambridge Display Technology

Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is a technology company with head office in Godmanchester, England. It was the first company spun out of the University of Cambridge ever to go public.^[1][6] It was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Chemical for about $285 million in 2007.^[7]

Cambridge Display Technology

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Polymer light-emitting diodes
Founded	1992; 33 years ago (1992)[1]
Founders	Richard Friend [2] Donal Bradley Jeremy Burroughes [3] Andrew Holmes
Headquarters	Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom
Key people	Jeremy Burroughes (CTO) [4][5]
Owner	Sumitomo Chemical
Website	www.cdtltd.co.uk

History

Cambridge Display Technology was founded in 1992 in order to commercialise technologies following from the discovery of a new form of electroluminescence in 1989 by Cavendish Laboratory researchers Richard Friend, Donal Bradley, and Jeremy Burroughes together with Department of Chemistry researchers Chloe Jennings and Andrew Holmes.^[4][8][9]

In 2002, the company was presented with the MacRobert Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering ”for light-emitting polymers”.^[8]

CDT's initial public offering (IPO) took place on the NASDAQ stock exchange in December 2004.^[1][10]

In 2007, the company became a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical.