AIXTRON, world's leading manufacturer of MOCVD equipment (Headquarter: Herzogenrath, Germany). Founded in 1983, AIXTRON SE, a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, provides customers worldwide with state-of-the-art technology to build advance components for electonic and opto-electronic applications based on compound or organic semidonductor materials. Such components are used in LED applications, display technologies, data storage, data transmission, energy management and conversion, communcaiton, signaling and lighting as well as a range of other leading-edge technologies.