Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) Acquires Assets of AIXUV GmbH
15 March 2010 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST) today
announced that its subsidiary has acquired the assets of AIXUV GmbH
in Aachen, Germany, a company specializing in XUV/EUV systems and
key components. Financial terms of the transaction were not
disclosed, and AIXUV has been relocated to the BEST operations in
Bergisch Gladbach.
With the integration of key AIXUV staff, know-how and products,
BEST has strengthened its position in several emerging applications
in the XUV/EUV (extreme ultraviolet) spectral range. Due to its
physical properties, XUV/EUV light allows chemically sensitive
measurements with nanometer lateral resolution. Scientific research
applications range from high-resolution chemical analysis or thin
film characterization, e.g. of organic LEDs or high-k dielectrics,
to X-ray transmission microscopy and 3D tomographic imaging of
biological cells. Furthermore, EUV is the upcoming semiconductor
lithography technology and will require ‘at-wavelength’ metrology
tools in different stages of EUV fabrication and its emerging
supply chain.
This acquisition extends BEST’s product portfolio to include
discharge-based XUV/EUV radiation sources. Based on such XUV/EUV
sources, new metrology and scientific research products are
available, e.g. for EUV resist characterization, XUV/EUV
reflectometry, spectrophotometry, microscopy, and chemical analysis
of nanolayers and nanostructures.
Dr. Hans-Udo Klein, Vice President of Business Development for
BEST, explained: “This acquisition paves the way for the
development of our business in new markets for scientific research
and metrology in the extreme ultraviolet, or soft X-ray, spectral
range. In future years, these new XUV/EUV product lines are
intended to generate significant additional profitable growth for
BEST.”
Wolfgang Diete, Director of BEST's Synchrotron & Beamline
business, added: “Based on our extensive know-how in synchrotron
based solutions and in combination with AIXUV’s expertise, we will
further develop and market stand-alone and modular XUV/EUV
products.”
About Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc.
Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST), Inc. is a
subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), and is a world
leader in the development and manufacturing of advanced
superconducting materials and superconducting devices for emerging
cleantech and alternative energy markets.
In synchrotron and beamline instrumentation, BEST is a supplier
with world-leading expertise and a product range from complete
turn-key beamlines for synchrotron light sources to individual
beamline components, including insertion devices, different
monochromators, mirror systems, beam monitors and other beamline
components, as well as complete instruments for synchrotron protein
crystallography and X-ray microscopy.
For more information on Bruker Energy & Supercon
Technologies, please visit: www.bruker-est.com
About AIXUV GmbH
AIXUV GmbH was founded in 2000 by Dr. Rainer Lebert and his
colleagues from Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology (FhG-ILT),
as a spin-off from RWTH Aachen and FhG-ILT, with focus on
developing and manufacturing sources and solutions for laboratory
stand-alone EUV and XUV tasks. AIXUV is active in the field of EUV
lithography and develops, manufactures and markets XUV/EUV
radiation sources, metrology tools and customer specific
stand-alone solutions for industrial applications.
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