IIT Patna & Applied Materials India Establishes Semiconductor Research Programme; Check Details Here

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Applied Materials India Private Limited and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna announced their collaboration to develop a centre of excellence for wear and corrosion resistant coatings on April 28, 2023.

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New Delhi: Applied Materials India Private Limited and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna announced their collaboration to develop a centre of excellence for wear and corrosion resistant coatings on April 28, 2023.

The partnership will perform research and development on unique coatings for corrosion prevention in the semiconductor industry with funding from the Department of Science and Technology's Advanced Manufacturing Technologies programme.

The three-year agreement will provide IIT Patna, staff and students with a platform to research topics important to the semiconductor industry and provide solutions to high-value industrial problems.

Students will have the opportunity to work on issues that are pertinent to industry and directly cooperate with scientists from Applied Materials in India and the United States through this curriculum.

This type of industry-academia relationship would help bring together the best minds from IIT Patna and Applied Materials and better prepare students for their careers by exposing them to materials engineering solutions for disruptive technological inflections.

"The collaboration between business and academia is essential for fostering innovation and producing tangible results," claims Srinivas Satya, Country President of Applied Materials India.

"Our collaboration with the IIT Patna will pave the way for innovative research and development, yielding solutions to the issues that face both present-day and future concerns," he added.

The director of IIT Patna, Professor T. N. Singh speaked about his belief in the industry collaboration, saying that "it is the way for IIT to be part of the future road map in niche technology segments such as Semiconductors."

The DST AMT programme would promote the application of coatings for wear and corrosion resistance by creating a centre of excellence at IIT Patna.

Suraj Rengarajan, CTO of Applied Materials India, asserts that "Our partnership with the IIT Patna is distinctive in that it is concentrated on advancing research and development of special coatings for corrosion avoidance in hot and severe environments along with solutions that can be applied to other technology domains besides semiconductors."

"We think that this programme will encourage and enable students to push the bounds of what is conceivable and to create lasting change in the semiconductor industry," he added.

"IIT Patna will be able to maximise its DST funding and reach new heights in the development of novel materials and coatings thanks to this collaboration with Applied Materials, global leaders in the semiconductor sector", said Professor Anup Kumar Keshri, founder of the Centre of Excellence in Wear and Corrosion Resistance Coating Technology and Associate Dean, R&D of IIT Patna.

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