AIXTRON SE announced that existing customer Ilmenau University of Technology, one of the leading research institutes in Germany, has placed an order for one AIXTRON MOCVD system in a double 1x2-inch wafer configuration.

The system will be used to develop new materials and structures for III-V-based opto-electronics, high-efficiency concentrator photovoltaics and III-V-integration on silicon and germanium.

The reactor was ordered in the third quarter of 2011 and will be delivered and installed by AIXTRON Europe’ s service support in the third quarter of 2012 at the new facilities of the photovoltaics department at TU Ilmenau.