Design for production dominates MOCVD

摘要

Both Aixtron and Emcore considered the MOCVD markets at the Gorham Outlook conference, while around them developments from Nippon Sanso and device companies such as Bookham and Hynix focus on specialised improvements. Researchers may on the whole be content with their MOCVD production, but the requirement for mass production in niche markets is a continuous development driver. It was Aixtron's Paul Hyland who gave CTO Bernd Schulte's talk on 'Trends in MOCVD technology', which looked at mass production for UHB LEDs, mass production for electronics as well as HeteroWafer technology development. For Aixtron, revenues by application in Q3 last year were 52% LED, 24% consumer optoelectronics, 20% tele-datacom and 4% other. Hyland's talk, in which he claimed Aixtron's 2002 global market share was 65% in 2002 and only allowed for Nippon Sanso as a major competitor (market share doubled from 5% in 2000 to 10% in 2002), did suggest that Aixtron still has heavy equipment manufacturing overcapacity and that the company is working hard to reflect an international, style of management, with its board members now including both US and and UK directors.