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Innovationspreis 2024

We are extremely happy and proud to have been awarded the 40th Innovationspreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg. The Dr.-Rudolf-Eberle-Preis is awarded to small or medium-sized companies to celebrate extraordinary achievements in developing and applying novel technologies. epiray placed first in a competitive field of 75 applicants, judged on the criteria of technical progress, business development and sustainable commercial success.

We thank the ministry of economic affairs, work and tourism of Baden-Württemberg, the MBG Baden- Württemberg GmbH, the members of the jury and the other price winners and nominees for an unforgettable event.

The photograph shows the presentation of the award by Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, minister for economic affairs BW, and Dr. Christine Neuy, CEO of microTEC Südwest e.V., to Wolfgang Braun and Hans Boschker. Photo courtesy R. Fredrich.

Epiray video

For the award ceremony of the Innovationspreis 2024, a short German-language video about epiray was made at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. The video showcases impressions of the first STRATOLAS system as well as interviews with Dr. Braun, Dr. Boschker and Prof. Dr. Grützmacher.

epiray United States

We are very happy to announce that we have set up a subsidiary company: epiray United States. Epiray US will focus on sales and services in America. We are even more happy that Brendan Faeth has decided to join us as Chief Technology Officer of epiray US. Welcome on board Brendan!

Visit us in Matsue

epiray will be present at the 2024 23rd International Conference on Molecular-Beam Epitaxy in Matsue, Japan, September 8-13. Come by our booth in the exhibition hall to learn about Thermal Laser Epitaxy!

MRS Spring Meeting Seattle

We look back to a fruitful conference at the MRS Spring Meeting 2024 where we presented epiray and Thermal Laser Epitaxy. We thank all scientists that contributed to spreading the word!

STRATOLAS 100 Installation

We are proud to have delivered our first TLE system to the Forschungszentrum Jülich. We thank the Forschungszentrum for their confidence in our technology and wish them great success in their scientific endeavors.

A new twist for MBE

Our company and technology feature in Compound Semiconductor magazine! The articles explains the benefits of thermal laser epitaxy compared to conventional epitaxy techniques for a wide audience.

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STRATOLAS 100 System Pressure

Our STRATOLAS 100 system has reached a base pressure below 10-9 mbar! No bakeout required.