Philips Lumileds Donates Aixtron MOCVD System to Support Material Science Research at UC Santa Cruz
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Author: LIGHTimes News Staff

June 11, 2010... Philips Lumileds has donated a $4.5 million MOCVD system to the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. The system was originally purchased by Lumileds to develop compound semiconductor materials for LEDs. Most notably, it was used in the development of Luxeon LEDs as a replacement for incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs

This major equipment donation provides important new capacities for materials science research at UCSC. The equipment will be installed in the laboratory of Nobuhiko Kobayashi, associate professor of electrical engineering, for use in his research on new materials for solid-state energy conversion devices and other applications.

The donation is Aixtron's AIX 200RF MOCVD system designed for the production of group III-V compound semiconductors with highly uniform layered structures. Aixtron boasts that the system's laminar flow design eliminates turbulence and allows precise control of the chemical compositions of semiconductor thin films to help ensuring sharp interfaces between layers.

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