To promote international cooperation on production, education and research, and to carry out basic research and core technological innovation on micronanoelectronic system integration field, the Research Center of Micronanoelectronic System Integration, co-founded by USTC and Institute of Microelectronics of CAS (IMECAS), was opened in USTC campus on September 18th. More than 60 executives, leaders, experts and professors from over 20 famous chip foundries, colleges and IC enterprises attended this grand activity in domestic IC industry. The opening of the research center indicated that a talent team and a platform for the combination of production, education and research in micronanoelectronic system integration field are taking shape.

The opening ceremony was hosted by Prof. Li Weiping, Dean of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST). On the ceremony, Director Ye Tianchun from IMECAS was appointed Dean of the research center, while Prof. Lin Fujiang, who is also a One-thousand-talent Scheme scholar of USTC, was appointed Executive Dean of the research center. Vice President of USTC, Prof. Zhu Changfei addressed the opening speech on behalf of the university.

On the ceremony, Dean Ye Tianchun introduced the trend of development in the micronanoelectronic industry and declared the urgent necessity of setting up a special key project. He hoped that IMECAS and USTC could combine the superiority of both side so that full support could be given to construct the research center together. Prof. Li Weiping reported the development plan of SIST and pointed out especially that research platform is crucial to SIST’s future. Since micronanoelectronic system integration belongs to one of the key subject fields of the school, the school shall employ every possible resource to give support the research center.

Prof. Lin Fujiang introduced the organization system and main research direction of the research center. The research center shall focus on advanced technologies and basic research such as IC and system design, new nano-semiconductor process, co-design of IC and MEMS/NEMS process devices, biomedical chip integration etc. Breakthroughs are expected so as to make researches on micronanoelectronic system integration in our country reach the international advanced level.