Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that its Training and Demonstration Center in Suzhou, China, has reached the next planning stage. Qingshan Li has taken over responsibility as director of Process Support at Aixtron China Ltd from 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.
Tim Wang, general manager of Aixtron China Ltd, added: "We thank Nicolas for having done such a great job in launching the center. In the future, our lab will be even more tailored to our customers' needs. Most of Aixtron's key customers attended a training session during this first year of operation. Their feedback confirm that it is very helpful and effective to have real process demos with training capabilities locally, close to our customers."
Qingshan Li received his Ph.D. in material science from the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai. Before joining Aixtron he held several positions in the field of process engineering at Novellus Systems Inc, most recently as director Process & Technology.
"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."
