Electronics & Instrumentation:

Devices and Systems

6MeV Medical
Linear
Accelerator-JV1

CSIR has been an active player in assisting electronics, instrumentation and process
control industry in technology development, absorption, upgradation and
diversification.

Low-cost, high quality ECG Machine

Radio Frequency Quadrupole Linear

Accelerator for Cyclotron:
India is the sixth country in the world
to achieve this feat
Hip Joint

6 MW peak, 24kW average power

S-band (2856 MHz) Klystron

Klystron Packaged single acoustic sensor Fabricated 4" Silicon Wafer

chip containing acoustic sensor chips
More than 300 MEMS acoustic sensor chips have been delivered
to VSSC. These sensors have qualified all user tests and are
replacing imported sensors, in ISRO launch vehicles
Klystron hot-testing Setup

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Significant Developments
 Specialized microwave tubes (Klystron, TWT, Magnetron, Gyrotron) for advanced systems and applications
 Silicon carbide Schottky diode detector – First in the country
 Silicon strip detectors
 Head-up display for aircraft
 MEMS-based acoustic sensor and pressure sensors
 Medical linac for cancer therapy
 Communication and sensor network for miners in coal mines
FBG Sensor mounted on a
 Plastic waste sorting system simulated high tension line
 Soft X-ray imaging based internal defect detection in Alphonso mangoes
 Image processing based identification of Ayurvedic herbs
 RO water plant instrumentation
 Electronic instrumentation for traditional industries like sugar, tea, paper & pulp, mushroom, aquaculture
etc
 Intelligent seismic data recorder and analyzer, snow parameter monitoring and landslide monitoring
instruments
 Bio-sensors for blood sugar, Na-K ions, cholesterol, gonorrhea, etc
 Agri-electronics and instruments for soil pH, soil salinity, rice grading, grain moisture measurement, etc
 Fiber-optic sensors for refractive index and concentration measurement
 Surgical microscope, anaesthesia ventilator, clinical chemistry analyzer, Na-K analyzer, etc

Caretaker of the country's measurement

standards
CSIR is the caretaker of all Indian measurement standards in
kilograms, metres, seconds and decibels. Such precision
standards and measurements, traceable to international
standards, allow the Indian industry to be globally competitive.

Thrust Areas
 Embedded real-time systems
 Solar photovoltaics
 Need-specific instrumentation
 Advanced metrology
 High power microwave tubes
 MEMS and microsensors Reconfigurable Micro-
 White LEDs Factory Test Bed
 Nano materials and devices
 Photonics and optoelectronics

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