A commercial Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) system, the ASMI Epsilon 2000 designed for Si and SiGe epitaxy, has, for the first time, been equipped for the growth of GaAs compounds in a manner that does not exclude the use of the system also for Sibased depositions. With the new system, intrinsic, Si-doped and Ge-doped GaAs epitaxial layers with excellent quality have been grown on GaAs substrate wafers by the decomposition of trimethylgallium (TMGa) and AsH 3 in the reactor at reduced pressure and at temperatures in the 600-700°C range. A low AsH 3 concentration, 0.7 % in H 2 , is used as one of the precursors, which has the added advantage that the severe safety precautions always associated with MOCVD systems need not be implemented.