SENIC provides a one-stop-shop for researchers from academia, industry, and government.
Due to COVID-19, the SENIC shared facilities at Georgia Tech will be closed beginning 5 PM on Thursday, March 19th. Users will not be permitted to enter the facilities. We will announce via sums.gatech.edu when these facilities are again opened. JSNN facilities will be closed beginning 5 PM on Friday, March 27.
Welcome to SENIC!
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide a total of $81 million over five years to support 16 user facility sites and a coordinating office as part of a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). The NNCI sites provide researchers from academia, small and large companies, and government with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology. The NNCI framework builds on the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), which enabled major discoveries, innovations and contributions to education and commerce for more than 10 years. The 16 NNCI sites are located in 17 states and involve 27 universities.
NNCI Introduction Video
As part of the NNCI, the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC) was created as a partnership between the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN), an academic collaboration between North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&T) and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Further details of the new program can be read in the Georgia Tech press release and the NCA&T press release.
“Through the NNCI, the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor combines the infrastructure strengths of both Georgia Tech and the JSNN to provide our users access to one of the largest and most modern nano-fabrication and nano-characterization tool sets in the country.” —Oliver Brand, Executive Director of IEN and Director of SENIC
NNCI Statement on Diversity:
The NNCI embraces diversity and welcomes, recruits, educates, employs, serves, and engages a diverse group of users, students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and talents, creating a community of teachers, learners, and researchers that exemplifies the best in all of us – in our intellectual pursuits, our diversity of thought, our personal integrity, and our commitment to excellence.
(Inspired by Georgia Tech Strategic Plan)
