Cambridge Display Technology
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{{Infobox company
| name = Cambridge Display Technology
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| industry = Polymer light-emitting diodes
| type = Subsidiary
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1992}}{{cite book|author=Steven A. Edwards|title=The Nanotech Pioneers: Where Are They Taking Us|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqoZ2e1waogC&pg=PA117|date=8 January 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-61209-3|pages=117–118}}
| location_city = Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire
| location_country = United Kingdom
| founders = {{plainlist|
- Richard Friend {{cite web | title=Cambridge Display Technology, Inc.: Private Company Information | website=Bloomberg | date=2014-03-05 | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=26003 | access-date=2017-12-18}}
- Donal Bradley
- Jeremy Burroughes {{cite web | title=Home - Professor Donal Bradley | website=Imperial College London | date=2013-08-01 | url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.bradley | access-date=2017-12-18}}
- Andrew Holmes
}}
| owner = Sumitomo Chemical
| key_people = {{Plainlist|
- Jeremy Burroughes
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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.cdtltd.co.uk}}
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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.{{cite book|author=Steven A. Edwards|title=The Nanotech Pioneers: Where Are They Taking Us|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqoZ2e1waogC&pg=PA117|date=8 January 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-61209-3|pages=117–118}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-display-technology-floats|title=Cambridge Display Technology floats|date=18 Jan 2005|website=Cambridge University}} It was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Chemical for about $285 million in 2007.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/finance/?cid=6566907|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126091905/https://www.google.com/finance?cid=6566907|archive-date=2017-01-26|title=Cambridge Display Technology|url-status=live|website=Google Finance}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/jeremy-burroughes-11173|title=Jeremy Burroughes|publisher=Royal Society|location=London}}{{cite web|url=http://optics.org/news/3/5/20|title=Andor shortlisted for top UK engineering award|website=optics.org|date=15 May 2012|accessdate=26 March 2016}}
In 2002, the company was presented with the MacRobert Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering ”for light-emitting polymers”.{{cite web|url= https://macrobertaward.raeng.org.uk/media/o2rg2ohz/raeng_50_year_anniversary_macrobert_award_book_final.pdf |title=MacRobert Award - 50 year anniversary|website=Royal Academy of Engineering|accessdate=8 July 2023}}
CDT's initial public offering (IPO) took place on the NASDAQ stock exchange in December 2004.{{cite journal | last=Minshall | first=Tim | last2=Seldon | first2=Stuart | last3=Probert | first3=David | title=Commercializing a disruptive technology based upon university IP through open innovation: a case study of Cambridge Display Technology | journal=International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management | publisher=World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | volume=04 | issue=03 | year=2007 | issn=0219-8770 | doi=10.1142/s0219877007001107 | pages=225–239}}
In 2007, the company became a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical.