AIXTRON wins the prestigious German Innovation Award

EQS-Media / 19.04.2024 / 07:30 CET/CEST AIXTRON wins the prestigious German Innovation Award Herzogenrath, April 19, 2024 – AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA) has won the German Innovation Award.  The prestigious award is organized by WirtschaftsWoche, Accenture, EnBW, and O₂ Telefónica under the patronage of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. The prize was handed over to the winners in the three categories of large companies, medium-sized companies, and start-ups at a festive ceremony in Munich last Thursday evening. AIXTRON, a leading provider of deposition equipment for the semiconductor industry, came in first place among the large companies.

Since 2010, the award has been given to companies whose innovations and technologies ensure Germany's competitiveness and significantly contribute to solving major global challenges.

"It is a great honor for me to accept this important award on behalf of AIXTRON and our entire team. The German Innovation Award is not only a recognition of the innovations we have created but also a testimony of continuous work and the dedication of our team. With our latest G10 product family, we are setting new productivity and performance standards in the semiconductor industry so that energy-efficient devices and sensors can be used more broadly in our daily lives, contributing to CO₂ emission reduction overall while enabling the digital society of tomorrow with even faster and broader data exchanges between individuals”, said Dr. Felix Grawert, CEO and President of AIXTRON SE, who received the award.

AIXTRON, the high-tech company based in Herzogenrath (Germany), is the global market leader for semiconductor deposition technology based on MOCVD (Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition). The production equipment manufactured by AIXTRON is used to produce compound semiconductors based on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), or gallium arsenide (GaAs). With the new G10 product family, which has been introduced in the market since 2022, AIXTRON has played a crucial role in making compound semiconductors widely commercially available.  In the past, compound semiconductors were only used in specialty applications in optoelectronics, for example for data transmission via lasers and in LEDs for conventional lighting.