The Hindu : Cusat gets DRDO aid for research projects

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Sunday, Nov 23, 2003

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Cusat gets DRDO aid for research projects

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI NOV. 22. The Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) has received a grant of Rs. 47 lakhs from the Defence and Science and Technology Departments for developing oxide phosphor thin films for electroluminescent devices.

Of the total grant, Rs. 18.8 lakhs has come from the Department of Science and Technology and Rs. 28 lakhs from the Defence Department, a Cusat release said here today.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) fund will go into a collaborative project between the Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, and the Department of Physics, Cusat, for the development of transparent conducting electrode material for ferroelectric memory and display devices.

The electrode material is important for the fabrication of non-volatile ferroelectric random access memories (FERAM). The work at the Department of Physics, Cusat, will be coordinated by M.K. Jayaraj and at RRL by M.T. Sebastian.

The DRDO had earlier sanctioned two research projects for Cusat for studies in semi-conductors useful for solar cell fabrication as well as on optical recording polymers. An amount of Rs. 25 lakhs each has been sanctioned for the research.

K. P. Vijayakumar, head of the Department of Physics, is the principle investigator for the project on optical characterisation.

The research on novel polymer-based material for optical recording aims at developing novel dye-sensitised polymers for optical recording, especially holographic recording, the release said.

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