AIXTRON SE
Aixtron AG:AIXTRON OVPD(R) Technology Qualified by Leading OLED Manufacturer
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AIXTRON OVPD(R) Technology Qualified by Leading OLED Manufacturer RiTdisplay
Corp.
— Critical Technical Breakthrough for Next-Generation OLED Mass Production
Achieved —
Aachen, Germany / Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, November 7, 2005 – AIXTRON AG (FSE: AIX,
ISIN DE0005066203; NASDAQ: AIXG), a leading provider of deposition equipment
to the semiconductor industry, today announced that RiTdisplay Corporation,
the leading manufacturer and supplier of OLED displays, has signed off the
system acceptance of the first AIXTRON Gen2 OVPD(R) system for the mass
production of OLEDs.
In AIXTRON’s opinion, the qualification of AIXTRON’s Gen2 manufacturing tool
is a critical technical breakthrough for its OVPD(R) technology as it could
potentially replace conventional OLED manufacturing technologies such as
Vacuum Thermal Evaporation (VTE).
The engineering teams of RiTdisplay and AIXTRON have qualified OVPD(R)
technology for the manufacture of OLED devices for full color display
applications. The ß-testing co-operation yielded OLED devices with better
performance as compared to devices manufactured with conventional technology
(VTE).
Based on gas phase transport and AIXTRON’s proprietary Close Coupled
Showerhead (CCS) technology OVPD(R) has significant advantages over
conventional deposition equipment (VTE), such as precise control of deposition
rates, long term process stability and reproducibility, high throughput due
to high deposition rates, high yield due to excellent uniformity, low
maintenance and running cost due to highly efficient material utilization etc.
The gas phase process further enables the realization of advanced device
structures including for example graded layers.
OVPDÒ technology has been exclusively licensed to AIXTRON from Universal
Display Corporation (UDC), Ewing, N.J. (USA) for equipment manufacture. OVPDÒ
technology is based on an invention by Professor Stephen R. Forrest et. al. at
Princeton University, USA, which was exclusively licensed to UDC. AIXTRON and
UDC have jointly developed and qualified OVPDÒ pre-production equipment.
AIXTRON AG
Kackertstr. 15-17
52072 Aachen
Deutschland
ISIN: DE0005066203 (TecDAX)
WKN: 506620
Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin-
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