Below AIXTRON's customers are already producing green/blue LEDs or Lasers

!!! Press Release !!!

Below AIXTRON's customers are already producing green/blue LEDs or Lasers (AlGaInN materials) on the mass production systems AIX 2000HT, AIX 2400G3HT and the R&D and small scale systems AIX 200RF, AIX 200/4RF, AIX 200/4RF-S (or are ready):

Agilent/LumiLeds (R)
Alpha/AXT (R)
ARIMA, Taiwan (R)
Arizona State University
AXT
CSIST, Taiwan
EPI
Epistar, Taiwan (R)
FOR EPI, Taiwan (R)
GLI

IAF, Fraunhofer Institute (R)
Jeonbuk National University, Korea
LITE-ON, Taiwan
Meijo University, Japan
National Central University, Taiwan
Northwestern University
OES/ITRI, Taiwan (R)
SAIT, Korea
SEM, Korea
Showa Denko (R)

SIRUS, Taiwan
Thomson
UEC, Taiwan (R)
University of Bath
University of Bochum
University of Magdeburg
University of Montpellier
University of South Carolina
University of Strathclyde
University of Ulm (R)

(R) Repeat Customers

As an example, Jacob Tarn of Epistar stated: "The AIXTRON Planetary Reactor® concept is exclusively used for our AlInGaP UHB-LED wafer manufacturing. The G3 reactor with its increased capacity and increased efficiency is mandatory for low cost production and it will maintain Epistar's technological leadership. The III-Nitride LED wafers at Epistar from AIXTRON Planetary Reactor® are producing industrial standard brightness with superior uniformity and best efficiencies."

LumiLeds is known to use AIXTRON reactors for their blue, green and white captive LED manufacturing in Mike Peanasky's group. Prof. Akasaki/Dr. Amano from Meijo University are using the AIXTRON technology for their well known GaN laser work. Showa Denko is involved with their AIXTRON reactors in the white light NEDO project. AXT just recently reported commercial availability of AlInGaN cyan and green LEDs. Morris Young from AXT states that customers have acknowledged the excellent quality from the AIXTRON reactors. Beyond that two more Taiwanese companies are in a pilot production mode for blue LEDs.

3" is ready:
Some of AIXTRON's customers are using the AIX 2400G3HT production type Planetary Reactor® also in the 5x3" configuration for the growth of green and blue GaN based LEDs obtaining improved productivity. The new reactor design allows an increase of wafer surface of 87% without additional costs. This improvement in semiconductor technology based on the multiwafer 3" Planetary Reactor® for III-V components targets cost reduction of two important, closely related and fast growing markets. Firstly, high brightness outdoor lighting as used in large outdoor displays, traffic signals, automobile lighting, etc., and secondly the market of high density optical disk storage as used in the multimedia environment.

For further information please contact:

Octavia Schirmer
Marketing Manager
AIXTRON AG
Kackertstr. 15 - 17
D-52072 Aachen
Germany
Phone: +49 (241) 8909-474
Fax: +49 (241) 8909-40
E-mail: info@aixtron.com
www.aixtron.com