AIXTRON SE receives multiple tool order for AIX R6

AIXTRON receives multiple tool order for AIX R6

Herzogenrath/Germany, May 19, 2015 - AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA; NASDAQ: AIXG), a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced that it has received a multiple tool order for its new AIX R6 MOCVD system. The systems were ordered in the second quarter 2015 while shipments will continue until 2016.

The customer's decision to purchase the AIX R6 Close Coupled Showerhead^(R) system for volume production is based on the positive experience with AIXTRON's Close Coupled Showerhead^(R) R&D tool. Providing high throughput by continuous runs and lowest cost of ownership in the market, the AIX R6 enables customers to expand production efficiently.

Dr. Bernd Schulte, Executive Vice President and COO of AIXTRON SE, says: "The AIX R6 has been developed with a strong focus on customer production needs and therefore, excels through outstanding material efficiency and intrinsic deposition uniformity. In addition to cost advantages, the AIX R6 also convinces with more automation, increased reliability and improved process control for excellent reproducibility and yield. Thus, the AIX R6 effectively contributes to our customers' business success."

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About AIXTRON
AIXTRON SE is a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The Company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Herzogenrath (near Aachen), Germany, with subsidiaries and sales offices in Asia, United States and in Europe. AIXTRON's technology solutions are used by a diverse range of customers worldwide to build advanced components for electronic and opto-electronic applications based on compound, silicon, or organic semiconductor materials. Such components are used in a broad range of innovative applications, technologies and industries. These include LED applications, display technologies, data storage, data transmission, energy management and conversion, communication, signaling and lighting as well as a range of other leading-edge technologies.

Our registered trademarks: AIXACT^(R), AIXTRON^(R), Atomic Level SolutionS^(R), Close Coupled Showerhead^(R), CRIUS^(R), Gas Foil Rotation^(R), OVPD^(R), Planetary Reactor^(R), PVPD^(R), TriJet^(R)

For further information on AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6; NASDAQ: AIXG, ISIN US0096061041) please visit our website at: www.aixtron.com.

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