SWASTHA centre of excellence, 2 ISO clean rooms inaugurated at IIT Guwahati

NEW DELHI: Two state-of-the-art ISO clean rooms and centre of excellence for the Smart Wearable Advanced Nanosensing Technologies in Healthcare ASICs (SWASTHA) project was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. The facilities were inaugurated by ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) secretary S Krishnan at IIT Guwahati’s Centre for Nanotechnology.

Supported by MeitY, the centre of excellence on SWASTHA aims at producing advanced nanoelectronic theranostic devices that can be used in healthcare. The project aims to deliver high-quality products and prototypes in micro and nano electronics and nanomaterials, with a focus on healthcare and energy applications.

The state-of-the-art ISO 5 and 6 clean room facilities are the first of their kind in northeast India. They have been set up to promote awareness and training in micro and nano electronic fabrication, facilitating industrial research and development, and supporting the Indian Nanoelectronics Users Programme (INUP). Jointly sponsored by MeitY and IIT Guwahati, these facilities create a controlled environment suitable for nanoelectronics and nanomaterial fabrication, semiconductor devices fabrication, quantum technologies development, enabling fundamental and translational research.

These rooms will have the state-of-the-art equipment for device fabrication and development, including electron beam lithography and reactive ion etching, this enables the development of devices such as organic light-emitting diode (OLED), organic and hybrid photovoltaic devices, field-effect transistor (FET), surface acoustic wave (SAW), and microfluidic-based sensors.

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The MEitY secretary said, “The successful establishment of the clean room facilities and the implementation of the SWASTHA centre for excellence is an epoch-making event in the North-Eastern region because the young human resources of the region can now utilize these world-class high-end facilities available at their doorstep to pursue their lofty scientific and technological dreams. It is of great importance to note that the Nanotechnology Centre of IITG has delivered an array of frugal low-cost technologies that will cater to the needs of the society.”