In 1958, the Department of Semiconductor Physics was created at the Polytechnic Institute, which subsequently, with the development of science and technology, received the name “Semiconductor Physics and Nanoelectronics” (since 1995). When the Higher School of Engineering and Physics was formed at the Institute of Physics of Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, the department became part of it as the Scientific Center “Semiconductor Physics and Nanoelectronics” (2019).

The scientific center trains highly qualified specialists in the field of semiconductor physics, semiconductor electronics, micro-opto- and nanoelectronics, capable of working at a high professional level both in academic research institutions and at different stages of research, development, and production .

Along with knowledge, skills and abilities, the mission of the center is to develop students’ interest in problems of science and technology in the field of knowledge, broaden their horizons, and stimulate interest in historical, cultural, social processes occurring in the world around them.