subject: Aixtron Cvd Giant German Company Acquired Nanoinstruments [print this page] AIXTRON, Germany reached an agreement with the Nanoinstruments, AIXTRON will acquire Nanoinstruments company, but the amount of the acquisition were not disclosed. Nanoinstruments established in 2005, originally separate from the University of Cambridge, and to create the main CVD, but also to provide carbon nanotube (CNT) and other nano-materials, plasma enhanced CVD method necessary research facilities. For future optoelectronic devices and applications,, CNT is a very promising material, currently it is the next generation of many research teams to study new materials and applied to flat panel displays, heat sink, integrated circuits, sensors or electronic gun . For AIXTRON, the deposition of the original equipment products to add Nanoinstruments of these products, nanotechnology applications in the medium-term and long-term development, the potential for the company to create new opportunities.
AIXTRON Nanoinstruments business focus is on research and development and the industrialization of CNT devices, nanotechnology will Nanoinstruments professional with AIXTRON's technical resources, manufacturing capabilities and international customer service and support network together. In the administration, Nanoinstruments of key management personnel such as company founder, Dr. Ken Teo and Dr. Nalin Rupesinghe, they will join the new AIXTRON Nanoinstruments technology sector.
AIXTRON CEO Paul Hyland, said: "We Nanoi team operating in such a short time, achieved impressive. They have some important global research and industrial institutions to provide the equipment and technology to successfully CNT The new electronic applications. This new technology has been temporarily outcrop angle, much praise. combination of experience and technology available to power, I believe we can help Nanoinstruments team AIXTRON's business development efforts will be very interesting to nanotechnology. " Dr. Ken Teo also published reflections on this, he believed that AIXTRON can the development of nano-technology to the next stage; This acquisition not only improves the customer's R & D capability, customers get the benefits from AIXTRON there will be business to AIXTRON point where the global network, Europe and the United States and the Asia Pacific region.
CVD is a way of using chemical reactions in the reaction chamber to gas the resultant solid reactants generated and deposited on the wafer surface, a thin film deposition technology.
AIXTRON is headquartered in Aachen, Germany, focused on CVD process equipment suppliers. In 1983, AIXTRON stripped from the University of Aachen, Germany, currently owned products and technologies covering three areas: compound semiconductors (CSTS), silicon (SSTS) and organic semiconductor (OSTS), MOCVD as the most important equipment AIXTRON , its global market share reached 63%.
By application to sub, AIXTRON's operations are focused in five major parts: LED, silicon semiconductor, consumer electronics / photonics, telecommunications / data networking and display areas. In 2005, after two years of the acquisition of GENUS and after the integration and consolidation, AIXTRON revenue mix was also a significant change in silicon semiconductor business in 2006 to 32% of its total revenue, while the original as the absolute dominance of the LED Application of business income by the total relative decline in the company's 70-80% to 44%, compound semiconductors and silicon semiconductor devices has become a AIXTRON two both markets.
AIXTRON 2006 reached 223 million U.S. dollars of total revenue, achieved 23% growth, of which Asia accounted for 79%. AIXTRON, general manager of Shanghai office, according to Huang Chaofu introduced, mainly due to growth in two areas: First,
MOCVD new products AIX 2800G4 HT Planetary Reactor (42x2 ") and Thomas Swan Crius (30x2") of the introduction of LED market to meet the rapid expansion, MOCVD in the LED manufacturing plays an important role in the growth of III-V family is compounds such as GaN, InP, SiGe, GaAs epitaxial layers such as preparation of the core technology and mainstream; 2 is derived from the market's outstanding performance last year, Memory, AIXTRON's CVD equipment mainly focus on the tungsten silicide (WSix) thin film deposition, often Memory Technology needs more than Logic CVD step, AIXTRON Korea silicon semiconductor market, the main driving the market, Hynix performance of the Chinese market last year has effectively pushed AIXTRON performance. According to reports, AIXTRON-GENUS silicon semiconductor devices located in the high-end technology, is now available 12-inch, 22-nm technology node products. MOCVD global market in 2009 was estimated at 235 million U.S. dollars, tungsten silicide CVD, ALD and AVD market for the 320 million U.S. dollars, AIXTRON's goal is to occupy 60% respectively and 25% of the market.
LED lighting is the next generation of the mainstream industry, has been widely used in LCD backlighting for mobile phones, displays, landscape lighting, automotive lighting and traffic signs and other fields. Although China's LED industry has formed the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, Xiamen, Nanchang, Dalian, Beijing and five industrial regions, each region has basically formed a relatively complete industrial chain. But the reference to the development prospects of China's LED, Huang Chaofu that the Chinese LED market is enormous, a large number of enterprises to focus on LED, but most do not own property, LED technology, the core of the basic patents have been controlled by big companies overseas, such as Philips -Lumileds, Cree, Nichia, Toyoda Gosei, Osram and so on, China's LED industry have to face patent issues, domestic enterprises in the development process, with particular attention to technology innovation.
The late 80s, AIXTRON came into contact with the Chinese market, the early 90s, AIXTRON's first system to enter the Chinese market in 2002, AIXTRON set up Shanghai office. For a long time, AIXTRON with Chinese research institutions, universities have maintained good relations of cooperation. With the start of China's semiconductor lighting project, AIXTRON is also actively involved in China National Key Basic Research Development Program such as the 863 projects, 973 projects and 985 projects.
Tokuyama with AIX 200 / 4 RF-S production of UV LED
AIXTRON announced, AIX 200 / 4 RF-S epitaxy chamber Tokuyama R & D center in Japan successfully launched. The equipment used for the development and production AlGaN-based UV LED. UV-LED are facing great challenges, but with advanced technology and high temperature stability characteristics (1400 C), AIX 200 / 4 RF-S can produce the highest quality GaN and AlGaN layers. Aoyagi professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, under a collaboration, Tokuyama completed its assessment of the device and the application of identification. AIXTRON equipment will speed up the re-introduction of GaN UV-LED materials and device development process.
