Aixtron SE has a new multiple tool order for 55x2-inch CRIUS II systems from existing customer Forepi.

The new systems will be dedicated to the volume production of materials for high brightness blue LEDs. The system order came in the first quarter of 2011 and delivery takes place in the period between the second and fourth quarters of 2011.

One of Aixtron´s local support teams will install and commission the new reactors in the company’s state-of-the-art production complex in Taiwan.

Forepi President, Fen Ren Chien, comments, “Our technical team has great confidence in Aixtron technology and the CRIUS II will give us much needed enlarged production capacity. Since the CRIUS II has grown from 31x2-inch to 55x2-inch wafers, the new reactors will play a key role in our future expansion plans for HB blue LED production.”

Once they had built up experience with their single CRIUS II, they quickly decided to ramp up production with further CRIUS II reactors so as to benefit from the technical advantages of the Aixtron next-generation Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) technology. The CRIUS II gives they the highest growth rates and growth pressure as well as zero particle generation and minimised maintenance. Having even better performance along with increased capacity made ordering more of the latest generation reactor a simple decision.