Dr Jeremy Burroughes PhD, Chief Technical Officer, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd

Dr Burroughes is a joint founder of Cambridge Display Technology Ltd which is developing light emitting polymers for Display and Lighting applications.
 
After submitting his PhD thesis entitled ‘The Physical Processes in Organic Semiconductor Polymer Devices’, Dr Burroughes discovered that conjugated polymers could show electroluminescence and a patent was filed by Dr Burroughes and his research fellows shortly afterwards.
 
In 1997, Dr Burroughes joined CDT to manage its new research group and by November 2001 had been promoted to CTO.