University of Wroclaw Places Repeat Order for AIXTRON System

3x2” Close Coupled Showerhead-Reaktor

Aachen/Germany, July 9, 2013 – AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Wroclaw in Poland has successfully started-up a 3x2-inch AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD equipment to create optoelectronic devices, in particular highefficiency multi-junction solar cells, based on gallium arsenide (GaAs) related materials.

Prof. Marek Tlaczala comments: “We decided to purchase the AIXTRON system based on our good experience with the performance of our existing CCS 3x2-inch gallium nitride tool in the Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics. The new Showerhead reactor is destined for the University’s Interuniversity Didactic-Technological Center ‘TECHNOPOLIS’ in Wroclaw.”

Dr. Frank Schulte, Vice President of AIXTRON Europe, adds: “The Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) concept is recognized as a robust route to uniformity and scalability. We are very pleased that the University of Wroclaw has chosen our system for its most advanced center TECHNOPOLIS and are looking forward to continue our close collaboration with our customer’s excellent technical team.”

The center is co-funded by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund within the framework of the Infrastructure and Environmental Programme and Poland’s national budget. Doctoral and masters students will be trained in the center to participate in strategic economic activities such as automatics and robotics, electronics and telecommunications, computer science and teleinformatics.

TECHNOPOLIS is an investment endeavour whose purpose is to establish fundamentals for the development of educational infrastructure enabling highest quality education, necessary for the creation of knowledge society and encouraging economic growth in the region concerned.

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