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News Release from: Cambridge Display Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 October 2001
CDT licenses its light-emitting polymer
displays
Cambridge Display Technology has granted a licence to Edinburgh-based startup MicroEmissive Displays to manufacture and sell miniature high-resolution light emitting polymer displays.
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has granted a licence to Edinburgh-based startup MicroEmissive Displays (MED) to enable MED to manufacture and sell miniature high-resolution light emitting polymer (LEP) displays MED will initially develop OEM LEP products for viewfinder applications in video camcorders, digital cameras, toys and gaming products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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MED is currently installing an LEP pilot line at its corporate headquarters in the newly built Scottish Microelectronics Centre and expects to launch full commercial LEP microdisplay products during 2002.
MED's investment in an LEP microdisplay pilot production line independently mirrors CDT's own investment in a LEP technology development line at its $25m centre in Godmanchester, UK, which is due to be operational in early 2002.
Both investments support CDT's efforts to drive the commercialisation of LEP technology.
Microdisplays are tiny high resolution displays built directly on silicon substrates, which are very lightweight and low power.
By using magnifying optics they create an image that is larger than the physical size of the device.
Microdisplays are expected to have application in 3G mobile phones, headsets for wearable computing, and a wide range of other content-enabled consumer products.
David Fyfe, CEO of CDT, said, "We are very pleased to be working with MED, and believe very strongly that it has the right credentials and experience to develop LEP microdisplays.
MED has made great strides in developing the manufacturing process surrounding LEP displays on CMOS silicon wafers.
Its work shows clearly that LEP display technology is very compatible with low power CMOS electronics, and its products are expected to have a significant impact in the emerging microdisplay marketplace.
CDT is committed to giving full support to all licensees to aid the commercialisation of LEP technology".
Peter Denyer, Executive Chairman of MED, said, "LEP has clear advantages over competing microdisplay technologies.
The key requirement for the consumer applications that we are targeting is low power consumption and this is where LEPs are unrivalled.
Both peripheral electronics and manufacturing are less complicated for LEP microdisplays.
I believe that MED will quickly establish itself as a significant microdisplay provider and the leading brand in this field".
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