IIT Roorkee wins National Gold Award for e-governance

The team won the award for the development of e-waste-based microwave absorbing material for electromagnetic shielding and stealth applications. 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee’s team of researchers led by Dharmendra Singh bagged the National “Gold” Award for e-governance for outstanding research on citizen-centric services by academic/research institutions. The team won the award for the development of e-waste-based microwave absorbing material for electromagnetic shielding and stealth applications. 

Radar absorbing materials (RAMs) are indispensably required to control EM pollution and for advanced engineering requirements in military stealth applications. The innovation will help fulfil the vital need for cost-effective synthesis and fabrication of effective microwave absorbers using low-cost raw materials and less complex fabrication techniques.  

This will enable the development of end user-defined stealth solutions and products such as camouflage nets using e-waste and radar absorbing materials and paints for EMI shielding and suppression of harmful mobile phone radiation. 

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Director IIT Roorkee, said, “This development has applications in both civilian and military domains. We hope it will contribute towards the goal of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the area of defence technology.” 

Dharmendra Singh said, “Considering the different applications of Microwave Absorbing Materials (MAMs) in the civil and defence sector, there is a vital need for cost-effective synthesis and fabrication of effective microwave absorbers using low-cost raw materials and less complex fabrication techniques. Thereby, the proposed solution is to provide an alternative option to develop wideband (frequency: 1-18 GHz) MAMs using E-waste having the properties defined by the end users. Considerable amount of resources, such as materials, time, manpower, cost, etc., will be saved with the developed technique.” 

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