Cambridge Display Technology and Toppan Printing to Exhibit Roll Printed P-OLED Active Matrix Display at SID Conference

Cambridge Display Technology and Toppan Printing to Exhibit Roll Printed P-OLED Active Matrix Display at SID Conference

CAMBRIDGE, England, June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) (NASDAQ:OLED) and Toppan Printing, the leading information and communications company of Tokyo, Japan, have produced a number of 5.5 inch full color active matrix polymer OLED (P-OLED) displays using a roll printing method. A demonstrator will be shown at the SID conference in San Francisco. The displays -- believed to be the first of their type ever produced -- are the result of close co-operation between the two companies and part of their joint development activity announced in February 2005.

Solution processing of P-OLED displays is more commonly associated with inkjet printing, and the companies believe that roll printing represents a promising alternative production technique, which offers the potential for very good display uniformity, very high display resolution and low capital and operating costs. In the future, this type of roll printing process could be well suited for making flexible P-OLED displays. CDT believes that this combination of properties can only be achieved with solution-based printing processes.

The technique is based on relief printing, a well-established method for the transfer of soluble materials onto a range of substrates, but which has been developed by Toppan into a highly precise technology capable of producing patterned pixels of small size and highly uniform distribution. The companies believe that the process is capable of scaling to large substrate size and very high resolution, potentially over 200 ppi.

For CDT, Dr David Fyfe, CEO said: "Toppan has achieved a significant step forward with the production of these demonstrator displays, and we are delighted at the early fruits of our partnership with them."

About CDT

Cambridge Display Technology is a pioneer in the development of light emitting polymers (P-OLEDs) and their use in a wide range of electronic display products used for information management, communications and entertainment. P-OLEDs are part of the family of organic light emitting diodes, or OLEDs, which are thin, lightweight and power efficient devices that emit light when an electric current flows. P-OLEDs offer an enhanced visual experience and superior performance characteristics compared with other flat panel display technologies such as liquid crystal displays, and have the key advantage that they can be applied in solution using printing processes. Founded in 1992, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and listed on the US NASDAQ National Market under the symbol 'OLED'.

More information on CDT can be found at: http://www.cdtltd.co.uk/

About Toppan

Formed in 1900, the Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. is today a leading company in the information and communications industry. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Toppan is an international company with over 10500 employees. Toppan continues to expand its business activities into diversified new areas by utilizing its core technologies acquired in printing. These include: packaging, security, electronics, digital imaging and optronics.

More information about Toppan is available at: http://www.toppan.co.jp/english

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Source: Cambridge Display Technology

CONTACT: Terry Nicklin, Marketing Director of CDT, +44-1954-713600,
tnicklin@cdtltd.co.uk

Web site: http://www.cdtltd.co.uk/
http://www.toppan.co.jp/english

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