Capacity Building

With the purpose of enhancing capability building leading to quality research, innovation and highly trained manpower. Some of these exercises include the following:

• Focus on basic and technological knowledge to undertake development activities in the upcoming and technologically relevant areas like photovoltaic, energy conversion, sensors, passive components such as resistor, capacitors, etc.
• Developing working groups with strong experimentation culture and research base for continued advanced level research in this strategic areas.
• Commissioning of critical equipments for the fabrication and analysis in the niche areas of materials and components that can serve as the basis for conducting further research in design and development of electronics devices.
• A capability of processing technology for recycle and reuse of electronic wastes has been generated.
• A capability has been created in basic and technological knowledge to undertake focused research and development activity in the area of
  • polymer miscibility for its use in optical data storage media
  • thin film multi-layer coatings for optical storage media of suitable composition and configuration for phase change recording purpose. 
  • LC polymer and microelectronics
  • development of lead free X-ray absorbing coating materials for various applications
  • p- type ZnO thin films has been generated for advanced application like electronic paper and spintronix applications
  • magnetic materials for high-permeability GHz-frequency inductors
  • Tunnel Magneto Resistance materials and systems for very high density data storage technology and Spintronic devices
  • Nano NTC material and to develop chip-in-glass fast response thermal sensors 
  • oxide films and nanostructures for advanced sensors & energy systems
  • National Centre for Packaging of Photonic Devices at SAMEER, Mumbai
  • Facility for Epoxy based optical fibre alignment and attachment is made available and used by CEERI, BITS, IIT Bombay, IRDE, NeST et al.
  • Construction and Multi-site commissioning of Multiple Fluorescence Correlation Spectrometers FCS is being undertaken at TIFR, Mumbai. Through this new project on Biophotonics short-term training and fellowship programmes are undertaken.
  • Specialized manpower development at various levels is undertaken through a project titled Photonic Micro-nano system-Advancement of Research and Education undertaken at IISc, Bangalore. The effort is to create a proper eco system for photonics among students and young researchers.