Date: 03/01/2012

Industry seeks a balanced growth of science and engineering

Future technology depends on present-day science research. If young talents in India do not take up science research seriously, there is a threat to future technology/engineering. It is extremely relevant for electronics and semiconductor technology where the designs are in nanotech geometries. The invention of cheap and environment friendly material play important role in offering technology for billions, and is very relevant to Indian scenario. Indian science eco need to be networked wider so that cross discipline challenges and achievements are shared across the scientific and engineering community.

There are no immediate financial benefits in science. The IP protection, patenting, cross-discipline networking and market-need-understanding by the scientific community can help science professionals to make money along with doing research.

The semiconductor chip making equipment costs billions of $s, because its made using costly masks and lithography systems. If a new material and process is used to make a device to do arithmetic, logic and any such computing and measuring functions at a cost less than present chip making equipment and also using a material which is abundantly available, it can cause paradigm shift in electronics. This is just one example of opportunity in electronics. There are many such opportunities in every domain of engineering.

The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, addressed the 99th Annual Session of the Indian Science Congress, in Bhubaneshwar today. The full text of the Prime Minister's address on the occasion can be found at http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=79318

On this day of a science-specific event, we present links to few nice science articles related to electronics engineering:

Here is a link to an article on LCD: "Nanoparticle-doped polymer-dispersed liquid
crystal display" at the url http://cs-test.ias.ac.in/cs/Volumes/101/12/1544.pdf

Article titled "Microbial synthesis of semiconductor PbS nanocrystallites" at url http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1521-4095(20020605)14:11%3C815::AID-ADMA815%3E3.0.CO;2-K/abstract

Article titled "Light responsive polymer field-effect transistor" at url
http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v79/i12/p1891_s1

Article titled "Molecular charge-transfer interaction with single-layer graphene" at url
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17458080.2010.529174