26 May 2011

Changelight receives Aixtron’s 2000th MOCVD system

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced installation of its 2000th metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system at LED and solar cell maker Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.

Picture: Left: Changelight president DianMing Deng; right: Aixtron’s VP sales Dr Bastian Marheineke.

The 2000th system is part of a multiple tool order for 60x2-inch wafer AIX 2800G4-R systems for advanced optoelectronics devices and will be installed and commissioned by the local Aixtron service team at the Changelight production facilities.

“We are extremely pleased to be able to share this historic occasion with such an important customer,” said Aixtron’s VP sales Dr Bastian Marheineke to Changelight’s president DianMing Deng. Changelight was Aixtron’s first customer to use the AIX 2800G4 reactor in China. Marheineke says that Changelight’s AlGaInP LED epitaxial wafers and chips are amongst the best at the domestic Chinese level in terms of scale, output and sales. In 2010, multiple Aixtron G3 and G4 systems were installed at the Xiamen facility, together with others at Changelight’s site in Yangzhou.

The vast majority of systems sold by Aixtron in 2010 (almost 95%) are used for making LEDs. In first-quarter 2011, about 90% of revenue came from sales into Asia, with almost 90% of systems sold being for LED manufacturing. “China will undoubtedly be our biggest market in 2011,” says Marheineke.

“Development from our initial private enterprise to the present listed company is inseparable from the great support we have enjoyed from the Aixtron team since our foundation in February 2006,” comments DianMing Deng. “We have had an intensive relationship and cooperation over the past five years. Today, our manufacturing facilities are based exclusively on Aixtron MOCVD equipment, which has been pivotal in our becoming the biggest supplier of high-quality AlGaInP red orange yellow (ROY) HB-LED chips in China,” he adds.

“The new systems form part of our future expansion plans in Yangzhou, which was opened in April 2010,” continues DianMing Deng. “Looking to the future, I see our strategic cooperation partnership with Aixtron will become deeper and broader.”

See related items:

Changelight orders Aixtron MOCVD reactors for AlGaInP ROY LED expansion

Changelight boosts ROY UHB-LED ramp-up with two more Aixtron MOCVD tools

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