Type Subsidiary Website www.cdtltd.co.uk Founder Richard Friend Parent organization Sumitomo Chemical | Owner Sumitomo Chemical Headquarters Cambridge, United Kingdom Founded 1992 | |
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Industry Polymer light-emitting diodes Founders Richard Friend 
Donal Bradley
Jeremy Burroughes 
Andrew Holmes Key people Jeremy Burroughes
(CTO) Subsidiaries CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED | ||
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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. It was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Chemical for about $285 million in 2007.
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History
Cambridge Display Technology was founded in 1992 in order to commercialise technologies made possible by the discovery of a new form of electroluminescence made in 1989 by Cavendish Laboratory researchers Richard Friend, Donal Bradley and Jeremy Burroughes.
In 2002 the company was awarded the MacRobert Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering for organic LED displays.
CDT's initial public offering (IPO) took place on the NASDAQ stock exchange in December 2004.
In 2007 the company became a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical.