Germany’s Aixtron SE, a deposition equipment maker, has appointed Qingshan Li as new director of Process Support at Aixtron China Ltd, succeeding Dr Nicolas Muesgens, who has built up and led the center since its opening one year ago.

“Customers benefit immensely from seeing and evaluating real process runs in Suzhou without having to interrupt their own production line. This enables customers to increase their efficiency by avoiding lost productivity.” said Muesgens.

“My goal is to continue accelerating the drive to increased tool stability and productivity under mass production at our customers´sites in China with high-quality training in Suzhou,” said Li. “Several customer process demos with major Chinese customers on the CRIUS II-XL are scheduled. For training purposes a new CRIUS II-XL system trolley reactor will be added and made available to bring the technology even closer to our customers, significantly intensifying our hands-on hardware training. Both of our latest MOCVD systems will have been equipped with advanced features in the 1st half of 2013, e.g. the AIX G5 system with GaN-on-Si capability.”