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The leading German deposition equipment provider Aixtron announced that Nano Carbon (Poland) has ordered AIXTRON’s AIX G5 WW reactor for graphene production on silicon carbide. Nano Carbon owns a low-cost patented technique for epitaxial graphene that can be implemented on the AIXTRON system.

The equipment was ordered in the first quarter of 2015 and is due for delivery by the fourth quarter. The system will be configured to handle either ten 100mm or six 150mm substrates per run. The AIX G5 WW equipment provides high wafer throughput and is designed for the ultra-high temperatures needed for epitaxial graphene on SiC deposition.

Haydale has recently ordered an additional significantly larger reactor, the HD200, to fulfill anticipated increased customer orders following successful sampling and supply from the smaller units.

The company also said that it has ordered a further three Rotovac HD60 units for delivery by the end of June and that the two new reactors delivered in December 2014 have become operational.

The Institute of Electronics Materials Technology (ITME) in Poland started to produce high quality large graphene sheets.

The graphene production is done on a SECO/WARWICK reactor, co-financed with government aid under the Grafmet project. It utilizes an all-metal thermal work zone and a high vacuum system with turbo molecular pump to allow production of graphene sheets in sizes up to 500 x 500 mm.

CVD Materials Corporation (a subsidiary of CVD Equipment) is now accepting orders for 300 mm graphene grown on a copper foil. This production is based on the company's patent-pending CVD graphene process.

CVD says that their EasyGraphene manufacturing solution is easy, reliable and robust. The company anticipates that this process will become the high quality CVD graphene production standard.

CVD Equipment developed a new method to produce large-size high-quality CVD graphene in increased quantity and at a lower cost. The company filed provisional patents covering the technology.

The company says they actually developed "classes of production solutions" that can be tailored for different graphene applications. The company plans to ship new CVD systems that use this technology (called EasyTube) in Q2 2014. They are also developing more platforms. 

The EU launched a new project called GLADIATOR (Graphene Layers: Production, Characterization and Integration) that aims to improve the quality and size of CVD graphene sheets and reduce the production cost.

GLADIATOR directly targets the transparent electrodes market and will demonstrate that ITO can be matched on performance (over 90% transparency and a resistance of less than 10 W/sq) and cost (under 30 €/m²). During the project, they will produce ultraviolet organic photodiodes and large area flexible OLEDs.

CVD Equipment released their financial results for Q2 2013 - $4.8 million in revenue (up 40% from Q2 2012) and a net income of $874K (compared to a net loss of $440K in Q2 2012). CVD moved to a new, significantly larger facility which reduced their order levels (the current order backlog is $5.5 million).

CVD says they received orders for two large graphene systems - one for a square 300mm substrate and the other for a round 200 mm substrate. The company says that their application laboratory is playing an important part in their ability to deliver next generation equipment that meets the evolving needs of this growing material area.

CVD Equipment and Norway's Graphene Batteries signed a joint-IP development agreement to develop a binder-less graphene-based lithium battery electrodes and related novel battery designs. The two companies call the new technology NanotoMacro.

Graphene Batteries, who will lead the design and testing of the new technology says that CVD's electrode manufacturing technology will help them achieve an electrode with a higher energy density, enhanced charging time and longer lifetime - and at a cost reduction of 30%.

Grafoid has signed a joint intellectual property development agreement with CVD Equipment Corporation to develop graphene based "NanoToMacro catalyst materials". Grafoid will provide expertise to develop unique intellectual properties including the identification and feasibility for creating new combinations of graphene with carbon nanotubes as a catalyst material.

Both companies have equal rights to share in jointly created IPs and the ability to further the JV on additional terms. The current agreement runs for one year but it's renewable.

CVD Equipment announced a new material platform called CVD3DGraphene - chemical vapor deposited 3D graphene products. The platform is based on a graphene-foam like material that is comprised from several 2D graphene sheets that are mechanically and electrically fully interconnected in three dimensions.

CVD says that CVD3DGraphene is a highly customizable material platform that enables the preservation of many of the high performance material properties of the traditional one atom thick two dimensional graphene sheets. Such three dimensional graphene materials can be further functionalized by chemical vapor deposition, electro deposition and/or chemical grafting to develop even more advanced materials for high performance product developments.