Jiangxi Institute of Nanotechnology

The Jiangxi Institute of Nanotechnology, formerly the Nanchang Institute of the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was officially approved and established in May 2016. It is a provincial-level new-type research and development institution integrating scientific research, transformation, and support, jointly established by the Nanchang County People's Government, the Management Committee of Xiaolan Economic and Technological Development Zone, and the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The first-phase construction funding was 250 million yuan, covering an area of about 42 mu, with a total building area of about 20,000 square meters. The institute has laid out three major public service platforms: the micro-nano fabrication platform, the nanomaterial platform, and the industrial incubation platform. It has been approved as a Jiangxi Province industry-leading introduced and jointly built high-end research and development institution, a Jiangxi Province major innovation platform, a Jiangxi Province key jointly built innovation platform with domestic and international partners, a Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Carbonene Materials, a Jiangxi Province new-type research and development institution, a Jiangxi Province industrial cluster public service platform, a Jiangxi Province specialized "Maker Space", a Nanchang City semiconductor micro-nano fabrication public technical service platform, a Nanchang City Key Laboratory of Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Testing, and a Nanchang City Key Laboratory of Nano Carbon Material Application Technology, etc. The talent structure of the institute is mainly based on local recruitment, supplemented by personnel dispatched from the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics. The institute currently has a total of 117 people, 21 of whom hold doctoral degrees. The institute has established joint training bases with universities such as Nanchang Institute of Technology and Henan Polytechnic University. Currently, among the jointly trained students, there are 9 master's students and 5 doctoral students, and 5 have graduated with master's degrees. The institute has been approved as a Jiangxi Province Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, with 1 postdoctoral fellow and 4 doctoral researchers currently in residence. The institute has been approved for 78 various competitive science and technology projects at the national, provincial and ministerial, municipal levels, and enterprise horizontal cooperation, with total funding of more than 64 million yuan; published more than 160 SCI papers; applied for 113 patents (92 invention patents), and been granted 24 patents (10 invention patents). The Nano Devices and Processes Research Department relies on the strong talent team and mature operation model of the nano fabrication platform of the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, closely integrates with local industry needs, and focuses on fields such as microelectronics technology, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) integration technology, and advanced packaging. It focuses on building a public open service platform—the micro-nano fabrication platform—that integrates micro-nano device packaging, testing, and reliability failure analysis, with advanced equipment and a distinctive service model. The micro-nano fabrication platform mainly provides software and hardware support for the microelectronics and integrated circuit industry at four levels: industrial strategy, basic technology, key technology, and application development. It is a public service platform with leading micro-nano fabrication capabilities, providing customized innovative services, and possessing advanced technology research and development capabilities. It also has an incubator function, providing comprehensive, open technical research and development services to the whole society, and providing a continuous source of impetus for the technological innovation and industrial development of Jiangxi's microelectronics and integrated circuit industry. The platform has established a professional research service team. It currently has a 4,000 square meter cleanroom laboratory and a 1,000 square meter research laboratory, and has cleanrooms of three levels: Class 100, Class 1,000, and Class 10,000. There are 83 sets of high-end research and development equipment related to packaging and testing, among which packaging equipment such as die bonders, mounters, and wire bonders, and testing equipment such as X-ray, push-pull testers, and industrial measuring microscopes can meet the full-process needs of semiconductor packaging and testing processes. The related equipment of the platform has been uploaded to the Jiangxi Province Open Sharing Service Platform for Large-scale Scientific Research Instruments. The Nanomaterials Research Department focuses on building a materials analysis and testing center and a joint research and development center between the institute and enterprises. Among them, the materials analysis and testing center will be guided by the key technical needs in the field of nanomaterials, facing local enterprises, universities, and research institutions, providing services such as analysis and testing, technical consulting, and commissioned development, accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and helping local industrial development. The joint research and development center between the institute and enterprises will, in response to the national planning during the 13th Five-Year Plan period in new energy, new materials, military-civilian integration, etc., combine with local advantageous industries to carry out extensive cooperation with enterprises, focusing on the construction of carbon materials, mainly covering the application research and development of materials such as high-performance carbonene fibers, continuous fiber reinforced 3D printing technology, metal composite carbon fibers, and carbonene slurries in fields such as aerospace and new energy vehicles. It has jointly built a Graphene Application Technology Joint Engineering Center with Baotailong New Materials Co., Ltd., and an Activated Carbon Application Technology Laboratory with Jiangxi Shanglv Technology Co., Ltd. The Jiangxi Institute of Nanotechnology does not forget its original intention of starting a business in Jiangxi, takes serving local economic development as its own responsibility, aims to enhance the independent innovation capability of industries such as semiconductors and new materials, and is committed to core technology breakthroughs, common technology research and development, technology system integration, technology application, and industrialization in related fields, building a first-class professional technology research and development base, talent training base, industrial development service platform, and high-tech enterprise incubation base, and striving to be the "Jiangxi Model" of new-type research and development institutions.