Equipment and Materials ♦ news digest
Aixtron’s Executive and Supervisory Boards will propose to the shareholders’ meeting that the 2012 loss should be carried forward and consequently no dividend for 2012 will be distributed.
Management Review
Management expects demand for MOCVD production equipment to potentially improve as demand for LEDs increases later in the current year. On the same timeline, management also envisages incremental equipment demand coming from non-LED emerging MOCVD applications and other technology markets, including silicon and organic semiconductor applications.
Nevertheless, the exact timing of that order intake pickup is difficult to predict whilst order visibility remains so low.
Paul Hyland, President & Chief Executive Officer of Aixtron says, “2012 proved to be an exceptionally challenging year for Aixtron, largely due to the severe and extended macroeconomic headwinds that the whole world has been suffering from. Our original expectation that 2012 would develop into a transitory year with the prospect of a significantly better second half has evidently not materialised.”
“However, the ongoing, albeit low level of demand we have seen in the second half of 2012 and into 2013, encourages us to reiterate our view that we have reached the bottom of the current cycle and that we might reasonably expect to see further market recovery at some point during 2013 driven by increasing demand for LED manufacturing equipment.”
“We also remain confident that we will see increased demand for our manufacturing equipment for non-LED applications such as power electronics, silicon or organic applications going forward. Despite the current short-term challenges, we will continue to invest into the development of manufacturing technologies for these and other emerging markets to secure our technological leadership and stay ’fit for the future’, adds Hyland.
Outlook
Despite the generally more positive outlook for the year 2013, there remains a high degree of uncertainty about the timing of a significant order recovery and management is consequently unable to offer a precise revenue and EBIT margin guidance for the year at this time.
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www.Aixtron.com, section “Investors, Reports/Presentations”, following the conference call.
NIT unveils InGaAs wide
ranging SWIR camera The firm’s indium gallium arsenide photodiodes are suited for signals from 900nm to 1700nm
The WiDy SWIR uses a 320 × 256-pixel InGaAs photodiode array sensor coupled to the NIT NSC0803 WDR read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) from NIT.
The InGaAs photodiodes provide a high quantum efficiency (QE) signal response from 900nm to 1700nm. When used with the NIT WDR ROIC technologies, the InGaAs photodiodes deliver more than 140 decibels of dynamic range in a single image without any external control.
The WiDy SWIR has a simple USB digital output and is delivered with WiDyWiew software operating under Microsoft Windows. The frame rate is software-controllable from 1 hertz (Hz) to 150Hz and can be synchronised from an external input/ output signal.
Potential applications include laser measurements, high temperature thermography, waste sorting, biomedical imaging and more.
New VP Linda Reinhard to
take sapphire forward at GT Reihard’s initial focus will be on growing sapphire material and the ASF equipment business which is primarily used by the LED industry
GT Advanced Technologies has appointed Linda Reinhard as vice president, new business development and product management for the company’s sapphire, DSS and HiCz products.
She will report to Dan Squiller, GT’s chief operating officer. Reinhard will be responsible for leading GT’s growth into new market segments and driving the product roadmap to capitalise on these new opportunities including sapphire for cover and touch screen applications.
“Linda brings deep experience and a proven track record in both product management and new business development,” says Dan Squiller, GT’s chief operating officer. “Linda’s initial focus will be on growing our sapphire material and ASF equipment business, particularly new opportunities in the cover and touch screen markets. She has extensive experience in Asia as well as in the mobile device segment which we believe could be a significant area of opportunity for our sapphire business. Linda will also drive our product management and
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New Imaging Technologies (NIT) has introduced the wide dynamic range (WiDy) short wave infrared (SWIR) camera, integrating a wide dynamic range (WDR) InGaAs sensor operating from 900 nanometres (nm) to 1700nm.
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