Aixtron SE has announced that Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, has received its new Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) system. Commissioned by the local Aixtron support team, the CCS 3x2-inch wafer configuration system is being used for research into ultra-high brightness LEDs and related material systems. Director of Luminous! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays and Singapore NRF Fellow, Nanyang Associate Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir comments, “We have established a solid-state lighting (SSL) lab...

It’s reported that the University of Technology (TU) Eindhoven in the Netherlands has ordered a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) system in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration from Aixtron SE. The system will be used for the growth of GaAs- and InP-based nanowire structures as well as for nitrides and silicon compounds. TU Eindhoven placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2010. After delivery of the system in the third quarter of 2011, the local Aixtron SE support team will install and commission the new reactor in the state-of-the-art clean-room facility wi...