AIXTRON is proud to announce that Sumitomo Electric Industries in Yokohama, Japan, one of the worlds largest suppliers of electro optical components, has recently purchased an AIX 2400 multiwafer Planetary Reactor^® system. Epitaxial films produced with the reactor will be processed into compound semiconductor devices for application in communication network systems worldwide.

The AIXTRON Planetary Reactor^® system was decided by Sumitomo "…because it is the most efficient mass production system demonstrating excellent wafer layer quality, highest uniformity together with highest efficiency and uptime".

The AIXTRON group offers a wide range of epitaxial systems for MOVPE, VPE and LPE from R&D-oriented systems up to large-scale Planetary Reactor® production systems for up to 25x4" or 9x6" wafers. AIXTRON has already installed over 350 systems worldwide. The company provides an extensive service and support network for maintenance as well as upgrading systems and is represented in over 15 countries.

AIXTRON is a supplier to leading industrial clients such as Alcatel, Anritsu, Hewlett Packard, UK, IQE (EPI), JDS-Uniphase, Lucent, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, Nortel, Samsung, Siemens, Thomson for long wavelength laser device production. For other material groups Agilent/Lumiled (subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard), AXT, Epistar, Epitronics, EPSON, Honeywell, ITT, Kopin, Motorola, Osram, Showa Denko, UEC, VPEC and numerous Japanese corporations are further references. AIXTRON systems have also been installed in the most renowned research institutes worlwide including JPL, Sandia Nat. Lab., Fraunhofer Institute, ITRI-OES, CNRS. AIXTRON is very active in advancing MOCVD technology through collaborations and joint R&D projects with major partners worldwide.