Mission: R&D to support policy & strategy framing; technology development & commercialization for manufacturing; and techno-economical manpower generation in the areas of Electronics Materials & Components, Photonics, Circular Economy & E-waste, IoT Sensors and Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing.

Social outreach: Providing technology & Skill development for informal sector, SC/ST demography, North East Region and Rural & Remote regions of India.

EMCD R&D Thrust Areas

• Electronics Materials & Components:
  • Energy Storage: Rechargeable battery/cell, supercapacitors, hybrid packs etc.
  • Printed Circuit Board Substrates and its applications: Electro-Magnetic Shielding; Antenna, SIW etc.
  • Quantum Material Technology: Diamond Substrate, h-BN Crystals and films, NbN and NbTiN films on Substrate, 2D substrate and wafers, Quantum Dots, Graphene, SiC, SiN, Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) etc.
• Photonics: Silicon Photonics Chips, Polymer Photonic Chips, Integrated Photonics, Optoelectronic Packaging, Optical packaging, Optical Fibres, Lasers, Sensors etc.
• Electronics waste: PCB, Solar Cell, Lithium-ion Battery, Magnets recycling technologies, skill development and awareness creation
• IoT Sensors: IoT Sensor Materials and applications
• Additive Manufacturing: Material, Machine and 3D printed products in various sectors such as optoelectronics components, medical device sector, photonic chips, digital toy, agro & food processing, sustainable smart packaging, environment and forest etc.

 

About EMCD #

Electronics Components & Material Development Programme (EMDP) has been promoting research and development (R&D) activity since 1986 to nurture electronics development in the country for boosting local manufacturing. EMDP’s core areas of research are Electronics Materials & Components including Quantum Material Technologies, Photonics, Circular Economy & E-waste, IoT Sensors and Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing. EMDP supported National MISSION under National Policy 2012 on Electronics: “Promotion of a vibrant and sustainable ecosystem of R&D design, engineering and innovation in electronics” during 2012 to 2018. Examples of some of the successfully developed technologies during this period are provided below:

 

 

EMDP is currently supporting National Policy on Electronics 2019 (NPE 2019): “Encourage industry–led R&D and innovation in all sub-sectors of electronics”. The strategy under this objective is to adopt top-down approach or market pull R&D to cater for local manufacturing needs in the optoelectronics (electronics and photonics) sector. To support NPE 2019 and industry led R&D, EMCD is working with industries of different manufacturing sectors. Primarily, industry demands among other things include:

• Adequate, focused and long-term govt. funding for R&D projects for economically viable prototype demonstrations and IPR generation in areas of Indian electronics manufacturing
• Focus R&D on indigenous product manufacturing technologies
• Make Govt. Transfer of Technology policies suitable for transferring to SMEs and MSMEs.

To cater to these industry demands MeitY is creating self-sustaining R&D centres or SRCs with industrial partnership where industry is playing key roles in technology development, technology road-mapping, administration, funding and self-sustenance of the R&D platform. Govt. is extending funding, knowhow, scientific expertise, laboratory access, and IPR (existing) for development of product prototypes, technology solutions and IPR portfolio generations followed by commercialization through ToT to industry and start-ups. In this direction, EMCD has initiated 16 centres with planned targets provided below:

 

In coming future EMCD program is expected to further support manufacturing especially in optoelectronics domain through additional such SRCs in EMCD thrust areas which can promote global contract research and R&D export.

EMCD actively participates in policy & strategy research; and contributes towards national and international policy & strategy framing of Government of India. Since 2012, EMCD has contributed towards the following areas of policy & strategy:

 

 

• Awards and Recognitions
• Ongoing Project List
• EMCD Self-Sustaining R&D Centres
• R&D Output (IPR)
• National Strategy for Additive Manufacturing
• PRIME portal

 

 

For further information please contact:

Smt Sunita Verma

Group Coordinator & Senior Director

R&D in Electronics Group

Phone: +91-11-24364464 (Office)

E-mail: sunita[at]meity[dot]gov[dot]in