Research & Technology Development

Research area of interest

Low power and high power electron gun for electron beam evaporation systems for coating applications, process control on high voltage power sources, atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ), hollow cathode based cold plasma devices and signal processing on high voltage surges

Indigenous Development

1. Developed a 10kV, 10 kW, 270 deg bent beam EB Evaporation system and carried out several metallic/reactive coating for various applications of DAE.

2. Developed and Commissioned a 120kV,4kW EB welding machine at MTDC, Mhape, M/s Siddhi Engg Pvt.Ltd under MOU with BARC

3. Developed an algorithm based on watershed transformation using image processing technique for finding the size distribution and number distribution of droplets on SEM images for dropwise condensation study.

4. Developed a 15 kW multilayer EBPVD based coating system for in-house applications.

5. Developed high power 60 kV, 200 kW indirectly heated cathode based strip type electron gun and experimented for melt studies of Cu, Ti, Nb and Mo to evaluate improved gun performance.

6. Developed 60 kV, 200 kW, 24 pulse based DC power source for 200 kW indirectly heated cathode based EBE system

7. Developed hollow cathode based cold plasma sterilization device for pathogenic sterilization

8. Involved in development of BxC/n-Si heterojunction for portable neutron detector

Technology Transfer