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University of Cambridge chooses AIXTRON Tool for Next Generation 2D/Layered Materials-based Photonic Devices

 

Herzogenrath, July 15^th, 2025 – The University of Cambridge in United Kingdom has purchased a Close Coupled Showerhead® system for 2D materials from AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA) for its research and development in the field of photonics and optoelectronics. The AIXTRON system enables wafer scale growth of “Layered Materials”, also referred to as 2D materials. This allows the integration with Silicon Photonics to produce highly efficient and high speed optical data communication devices.

AIXTRON's Close Coupled Showerhead® (CCS) system is set in a 200mm configuration and is currently being installed at the Cambridge Graphene Centre to be used for the UK's Layered Materials Research Foundry (LMRF). The LMRF will focus its research on graphene and other layered materials to deliver, at a pilot scale to end users, a fully integrated silicon photonics platform. AIXTRON’s CCS platform was chosen for this pilot line because it is the only platform today that allows seamless process transfer and scaling to 300mm and high volume manufacturing of layered materials. It also brings manufacturing level features to the lab scale. This is due to AIXTRON’s proprietary full wafer temperature control via the ARGUS temperature mapping system, as well as precise precursor delivery and control using AIXTRON’s concentration monitor Epison®.

"For many years, we have worked closely with AIXTRON, which has allowed us to advance our research and development in layered materials. AIXTRON's CCS system, which we are currently installing at our Cambridge Graphene Centre, will be used to deposit layered materials for optical transceivers and modulators which will be used for high-speed data applications like 5G/6G as well as optical interconnects and switches for next-generation energy efficient AI hardware,” says Prof. Andrea Ferrari, Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre at the University of Cambridge.

"2D layers offer enormous opportunities in photonics, optoelectronics and nanoelectronics. We are delighted that the University of Cambridge relies on AIXTRON for its world-leading research in nanotechnology to unlock the potential of these materials. With this, we help to shape the future of advanced optical and electronic devices,” says Dr. Felix Grawert, CEO of AIXTRON SE.

 

 

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e-mail c.ludwig@aixtron.com

 

 

About AIXTRON

AIXTRON SE is a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The Company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Herzogenrath (near Aachen), Germany, with subsidiaries and sales offices in Asia, United States, and in Europe. AIXTRON´s technology solutions are used by a diverse range of customers worldwide to build advanced components for electronic and optoelectronic applications based on compound or organic semiconductor materials. Such components are used in a broad range of innovative applications, technologies and industries. These include Laser and LED applications, display technologies, data transmission, SiC and GaN power management and conversion, communication, signaling and lighting as well as a range of other leading-edge applications.

Our registered trademarks: AIXACT®, AIXTRON®, Atomic Level SolutionS®, Close Coupled Showerhead®, CRIUS®, Gas Foil Rotation®, OVPD®, Planetary Reactor®, PVPD®, TriJet®

For further information on AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6) please visit our website at: www.aixtron.co

 

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