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Epistar jumps on the bandwagon for Veeco K465i
Veeco announced that Taiwanese firm Epistar has recently qualified its TurboDisc K465i GaN MOCVD System for high volume LED production.
“Ramping to production quickly and maintaining high throughput is critical to our success. Veeco enabled us to qualify the K465i rapidly and it provides the automation required to produce highly uniform LEDs with minimal downtime. The K465i provides Epistar the ease-of-use and system availability to meet our growing production requirements.”
Dr. M.J. Jou, President of Epistar, commented, “Ramping to production quickly and maintaining high throughput is critical to our success. Veeco enabled us to qualify the K465i rapidly and it provides the automation required to produce highly uniform LEDs with minimal downtime. The K465i provides Epistar the ease-of-use and system availability to meet our growing production requirements.”
Bill Miller, Senior VP, and General Manager of Veeco's MOCVD Operations added, “As a result of this successful qualification, we currently expect to ship a significant number of tools to Epistar this year. We are excited that we have been chosen to support their volume capacity ramp in 2010. This is an important milestone for Veeco as we continue to build our Taiwan installed base.”
The K465i is claimed to provide ease-of-tuning for fast process optimization on wafer sizes up to 8 inches and fast tool recovery time after maintenance.
