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Local alliance is logical for CDT
Electronics plastics developer Plastic Logic is the latest company to sign a development agreement with Cambridge Display Technology (CDT).
Electronics plastics developer Plastic Logic is the latest company to sign a development agreement with Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) Plastic Logic and CDT have common scientific origins in research on polymer organic electronics carried out in the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Plastic Logic, founded in 2000, focuses on electronic transistor circuit applications using polymer electronics technology.
CDT, founded in 1992, is facilitating the technology development and full-scale commercialisation of LEP technology for electronic displays, general lighting, and photovoltaic applications.
Both companies make extensive use of organic polymer materials, use common deposition techniques such as inkjet printing, and are based in Cambridge, UK.
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As part of the agreement, Plastic Logic will receive a nonexclusive license for broad use of CDT's intellectual property in Plastic Logic's core business, and CDT will receive a nonexclusive license for broad use of Plastic Logic's intellectual property in CDT's core business.
The agreement also includes the assignment of selected intellectual property by CDT to Plastic Logic.
CDT will also become a shareholder in Plastic Logic.
The companies will co-operate in certain other undisclosed areas and will continue to work on fundamental polymer research with the Cavendish Laboratory.
"We are very pleased to have reached this agreement with CDT.
Over the last decade, CDT has built up a formidable portfolio of intellectual property as the pioneer in polymer technology", said Stuart Evans, chief executive officer of Plastic Logic.
"Having access to this will help accelerate the development of the Plastic Logic business".
Polymer electronic devices use the unique and diverse nature of organic chemistry to create polymer materials that exhibit the semiconducting properties of conventional silicon technology.
Sophisticated semiconducting, insulating, and conducting polymers enable many of the electrical functionalities of silicon without the vacuum deposition and photolithography steps required by silicon electronics manufacturing processes.
Thin-film transistors made with polymer electronics are expected to be used in a wide range of electronics applications, including electronic paper, flat panel displays, electronic tags and labels, smartcards, memory, and wearable computing.
"We are currently focused on different markets, but we recognise that Plastic Logic's intellectual property will become increasingly valuable to us and our customers in the years ahead as polymer electronics technology and commercial development matures", said David Fyfe, chief executive officer of CDT.
"In addition, we are delighted to become a shareholder in the company".
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