AIXTRON SE engages in the development, production and installation of equipment for the deposition of complex semiconductor materials. The firm's products include compound semiconductors, silicon semiconductors, organic semiconductors, and nanotechnology. It supplies deposition equipment for volume production, as well as equipment for research and development (R&D) and pre-series production. The company was founded by Heinrich Schumann, Holger Jürgensen, and Meino Heyen in December 1983 and is headquartered in Herzogenrath, Germany.