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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 April 2002
Sainsbury opens LEP Technology
Development Centre
UK Minister for Science and Innovation Lord Sainsbury has officially opened the 1750m2 Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) LEP Technology Development Centre.
UK Minister for Science and Innovation Lord Sainsbury has officially opened the 1750m2 Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) LEP Technology Development Centre The GBP 18 million centre, located in Godmanchester, 20km from CDT's current Cambridge headquarters, is the world's first open and flexible LEP display manufacturing environment dedicated to LEP technology advancement, evaluation and technology transfer
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"LEP technology is ready to enter the commercial marketplace", said David Fyfe, CEO of CDT.
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"CDT has made this sizeable investment in its new LEP Technology Development Centre to demonstrate the use of the technology for high performance displays for a host of mainstream and novel applications.
Our licensees are well advanced with plans for commercialisation, indeed two are already delivering displays to consumer goods customers.
This investment shows that CDT, far from sitting on its strong intellectual property position, is intent on pushing the technology to new heights of its potential and so encourage other companies to adopt and commercialise it".
Lord Sainsbury said, "Turning new ideas into prosperity and jobs is vital to the strength of the UK economy.
I am delighted CDT has transformed a university research success story into a commercial reality.
The new development centre will help put the UK firmly on the global map as a leading provider of advanced technologies for application in current and future display markets".
CDT has started production of prototype single colour segmented LEP displays on the pilot line for reliability testing and materials development.
A wide array of product concepts and prototypes are planned for fabrication to demonstrate manufacturing technology and diverse market viability.
The centre currently employes 25 people and will expand to about 35 people by the end of 2002.
The heart of the centre is a 600m2 state-of-the-art cleanroom, comprising class 100 and class 1000 areas, which is being used to process 350mm-square glass substrates through several stages to form sheets with a multiple number of displays fabricated on them.
There is a further 350m2 area dedicated to testing the sheets, separating them into individual displays, and assembling into display modules for commercial products.
To address future technology and capacity requirements, a further 300m2 of space is available for expansion.
CDT has existing chemistry laboratories with cleanrooms for polymer material and display development and research at its headquarters at Greenwich House in Cambridge.
The centre will augment these existing capabilities and move polymers and display technologies from R and D to pilot production scales.
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