The latest progress of Aixtron in MOCVD Technology

Ace strong Limited by Share Ltd (Aixtron AG) is the world's largest and highest market share of LED equipment suppliers. The day before, vice president of Aixtron AG MichaEL & Mr. Heuken, a brief description of the latest progress of the MOCVD technology and the future technology development trend etc..

It is understood that Ace strong mixing of large size and multi chip MOCVD equipment and LED equipment market share has reached 70%, Ace is the world's largest suppliers of MOCVD equipment, has great research and development center. So, Ace strong future equipment mainstream direction? For LED manufacturing, the most obvious critical challenge is still to reduce the cost per lumen, improve the efficiency of LED. Michael Heuken said that the cost of LED from the whole life to measure, from each equipment use, Ace will use a variety of possibilities to reduce the cost of LED, including wafer cost and packaging cost, and the equipment and packaging costs will be high, the cost for the epitaxial wafer cost is relatively low and only a small part of. At the same time, Ace will also help LED manufacturers to reduce costs. From the point of view of the whole strategy, Ace's strong R & D direction of course, or the size of the epitaxial film, there are multi chip.

The latest advances in MOCVD technology have made, said Michael Heuken, the company's MOCVD system is mainly based on two unique technology: Planetary Reactor and Close Coupled? Showerhead? (CCS?), the two systems provide consistency and process throughput, excellent reproducibility is very high, which can achieve high the rate of finished products and high cost of ownership of profitability. These two technologies can be implemented on a common platform, which provides users with higher flexibility and scalability. The company's MOCVD system with a variety of epitaxial wafer processing capacity, from 2 inches, 3 inches, 4 inches, 6 inches, 8 inches or even to 12 inches, can meet the customer's continued pursuit of lower manufacturing costs. In addition, Ace strong in some other attractive emerging technologies also occupy a certain position. OVPD (organic vapor deposition) technology, for example, once some key performance indicators such as luminous efficiency and life can be achieved, OLED is expected to play an important role in the future of solid state lighting. Michael Heuken said that in the future, the company's R & D strategy will closely follow the market demand, the expected technical requirements into the MOCVD R & D team's technical goals.

At this stage, Ace has a strong competitive advantage in MOCVD technology. Michael Heuken said, first of all, the core competitiveness and the strong strength of Ace is to provide technology and equipment needed for complex gas phase deposition process, for different terminal market, will adopt a different strategy, differentiation and maturity of different technology. Secondly, Ace has sufficient capacity to meet the current requirements of the equipment to meet the huge market demand MOCVD. LED market is becoming more mature, so Ace pay more attention to cost and productivity improvements. As the initial technical barriers are gradually eliminated, the industry focus shifts to cost and productivity. In addition, Ace is also committed to strong understanding of customer needs, and actively analyze the future market trends, in order to consolidate the world's leading position.

Michael Heuken pointed out that the current can be said to be an excellent opportunity to expand the LED industry, China and Taiwan is a very important market, the development of the LED industry is very important to the country, the public and the environment. In creating profits, but also can bring benefits to the public. LED is not only a green energy saving product, but also can create huge profits in this field. Therefore, in this important period, it is necessary to develop LED technology in china.