Two technologies developed by Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Thrissur, have been transferred to industries for commercial production.

Debashis Dutta, Group Co-ordinator, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, handed over the technologies to give a facelift to the ‘Make in India’ programme of the government.

Sreekar Reddy, CEO, Speedlam Electomaterials, Hyderabad, and Manohar Nambiar, MD, Deem Sensing Technologies, signed the Technology Transfer agreement with C-MET.

The products developed by the C-MET are Flexible Microwave Substrates and NTC Fast Response Thermal Sensors.

Flexible microwave substrates are extensively used in a variety of high-end microwave circuit applications such as high power solid state amplifiers, patch antennas, missile guidance and mobile base stations. World over only a handful of industries are manufacturing these technologically and commercially important class of products, according to C-MET sources.

More than 70 per cent of the cost of any microwave device accounts for the base microwave circuit board and the availability of such circuit boards in the country are going to make a phenomenal change in the overall performance of the microwave industries, they added.

C-MET has developed a patented SMECH process methodology for the commercial manufacture of these circuit materials.

NTC chip thermistors are extensively used for accurate temperature measurement and control in automobiles, medical field and electronic appliances. C-MET has developed different NTC compositions, chip thermistors and chip in glass thermal sensors suitable for various temperature ranges of sensing applications. C-MET has developed extremely small sensors of sizes 0.3mmx0.3mmx0.3mm.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Kerala / by Staff Reporter / Thrissur – October 13th, 2015