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• Martin Goetzeler, CEO
• Kim Schindelhauer, Chairman

AIXTRON SE is a German engineering company.

The company was founded in Aachen as a spin-off from the RWTH Aachen in 1983 manufactures equipment for the production of compound semiconductors and other multi-component materials. Initially specializing in equipment for the production of III- V semiconductors such as gallium arsenide (GaAs ) and indium phosphide (InP ), the product range early 90s to high temperature suitable facilities for the manufacture of gallium nitride ( GaN) has been extended.

There have been numerous acquisitions as 1999, the British competitors in the III-V market "Thomas Swan Scientific Equipment Ltd.. " And the Swedish " EPIGRESS AB " in the same year and in 2005 the American " Genus Inc." for € 118 million. 2007 bought Aixtron the British " Nano Instruments Ltd.. " Through the acquisitions, the company expanded its range of plant types and material systems and in particular the equipment for the silicon industry.

AIXTRON SE currently dominates the MOVPE investment market for compound semiconductors. The main competitor in this market is the American company Veeco, the MOVPE system production has taken over from the " Emcore Corporation " in 2003. Your sales generates Aixtron mainly in Asia. 92 percent of all orders the company purchases from this room. This is followed by the United States with three percent and Europe with four percent.

978 ( 784 ) employees, of whom 660 (524 ) in Europe, achieved in 2011 (2010) an annual turnover of 611 ( 783.8 ) million euros. The AIXTRON SE is listed on the German Nasdaq.