AIXTRON OLED lighting and organic solar cell production tools will be installed in COMEDD

In November 15, 2007, AIXTRON announced that the German Fraunhofer optical micro Systems Research Institute (Fraunhofer IPMS) to order a new test type production system, the device is designed for the world's first OLED lighting and test tools of organic photovoltaic products designed by AIXTRON and Sunic, South Korea System Dresden is a new supply of organic materials and electronic equipment (center COMEDD, September 2007 10) began operating core manufacturing tools.

The experimental production system consists of a group consisting of thermally evaporated and deposition (organic vapor phase, OVPD) modules. In the glass substrate and the metal plate on the available substrate size 370 x 470 - mm, established takt time (tact time, the production time required) for three minutes, the system's annual output of nearly 13000m -. The system can be used efficiently and has flexibility in the form of substrate and organic stack.

The purchase of this system is an important milestone for Fraunhofer IPMS, which enables the development of a new type of organic lighting solution in a small-scale pilot production environment. Order manufacturing system is the first step in the establishment of COMEDD in Fraunhofer IPMS, in order to accelerate the OLED lighting equipment, organic solar cell and OLED-on-CMOS devices listed on the pace of Fraunhofer IPMS is to set up three pilot production line. Germany's state and federal government as well as the European Union will invest 25 million euros to COMEDD, is intended to establish a leading European small molecule machine parts development and trial production research institutions.

Fraunhofer IPMS said that only in Europe and not only in Europe, the design and research, organic lighting and photovoltaic industry has the vitality. COMEDD wants to become a major partner in the European industry to improve the production process to the level of trial production. Only in this way can we achieve the level of research and development needed to support the necessary development.

For equipment suppliers Axitron, this order is also a very important step towards the future of new areas of commercial market. The integration with the OVPD module, the next generation of Axitron technology integration, into the new market is also a milestone.

Source: China Semiconductor Lighting Network