Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Center for Energy-Saving Semiconductor Devices and Materials
Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Center for Energy-Saving Semiconductor Devices and Materials was established in October 2007. The Center relies on the existing research infrastructure of Nanjing University, in cooperation with other top professionals and teams from well-known universities, research institutes and key enterprises. It aims to meet the fast-growing semiconductor energy-saving industry in Jiangsu Province, driven by high-tech core technology that is in urgent need for the development of solid-state lighting and energy-saving electronics industry in the Province. The Center can provide all-round, professional and multi-level public services, which in turn promotes the transformation and application of the latest scientific and technological achievements in energy-saving semiconductor industry.
Based on solid-state electronic science and advanced semiconductor materials, the Center studies and develops high energy efficiency technologies for electro-optical conversion, photoelectric conversion and electro-electric conversion, and advanced power management technologies. Its main tasks include: carrying out innovative studies on key technologies and introducing integrated innovation research in the fields of solid-state lighting and energy-saving electronics, which are of great significance to scientific and technological progress and economic development in Jiangsu Province; establishing a technology research and development platform for the preparation of new functional materials for solid-state lighting devices, energy-efficient power electronic components, photoelectric information, power management chips and system integration, the planning and formulation of related technical standards, as well as the transformation of scientific and technological achievements; providing science and technology support for the technological progress of solid-state lighting enterprises and energy-saving electronic technology innovation and upgrade in related industries in Jiangsu province.
The center possesses a laboratory that covers an area of 3,000 square meters, including 1,000 square meters for the clean room. It has three sets of MOCVD equipments (one of them was imported from Thomas Swan), a Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE), an Ion-Beam Epitaxy (IBE), a Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), a Photoluminescence (PL), a Photoluminescence Excitation (PLE), an X-ray Double Crystal Diffraction, a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), and an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). It also has a Micro-nanofabrication Center (400 square meters) equipped with an Oxford Plasma lab System 100 ICP 180, an Oxford Plasma 80 PECVD, and an ABM Photo etching Machine. So far, the aboratory has 34 sets of huge equipment each valued over 50,000 CNY and more than 100 sets of equipment each valued over 5,000 CNY.
The center offers an intellectual environment for the proposed project and its implementation is also aligned to the center objectives, as the project will combine research with product testing and manufacturing by making full use of the basic infrastructure of Nanjing University and relative enterprises to improve the quality of solid state lighting and energy-saving electronic industries in Jiangsu province. The specific tasks include the development of energy-saving semiconductor material, key technology of manufacturing main components, technology of product testing and product manufacturing. The success of this project will develop new technologies with independent intellectual property rights and products of national competitiveness. The outcomes will transfer research findings into industrial products to improve the solid-state lighting and energy-saving technologies in Jiangsu Province. This project will be cooperatively managed by the Office of scientific research, the Office of product testing and the Office of transferring scientific technology into manufacturing.
