AIXTRON SE, a leading provider of deposition systems for the semiconductor industry, has launched operations with a new R&D cluster that demonstrates the core processes used to produce organic semiconductors. This enables the various processes for the deposition of organic thin-films, which are required for the manufacture of OLEDs and flexible electronics, to be demonstrated efficiently and under industrial production conditions.

The cluster, which has been installed in a cleanroom at AIXTRON, comprises several process modules used in the deposition of organic materials on 200x200mm substrates (“Gen1”). This size allows AIXTRON to demonstrate to potential customers the advantages of its deposition technologies on the device level at affordable cost and effort. At the core of the demonstrator are three of AIXTRON’s OVPD modules and one PVPD module. These are embedded in an automated cluster environment and supplemented by various process modules and relevant infrastructure.

AIXTRON’s proprietary OVPD and PVPD process technology allows the production of highly even organic thin-films with high material efficiency and high deposition rates that are needed to produce OLEDs, organic electronics, and other functional elements. The efficient, large-scale production of organic thin-films is viewed as a key to OLEDs achieving further market penetration.

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