CDT to Assist Sumitomo With Polymer Development

TOKYO, Nov. 28 -- Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) said it signed a license and technical assistance agreement with Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. of Japan to advance the development of polymers for use in LEP technology for display, photovoltaic and lighting applications.

CDT, which owns the fundamental intellectual property (IP) and know-how portfolio for LEPs, will license to Sumitomo some of its basic LEP materials IP, enabling Sumitomo to carry out broad research to develop new conjugated polymers. Sumitomo will provide these new polymer samples to CDT for testing and evaluation in a wide variety of electronic display structures.