Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) announced its support to IndiaNano (www.indianano.com), an IndiaCo initiative to create and support nanotechnology enterprises to establish a nanotechnology incubator in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

C-MET is a Scientific Society Registered under Ministry of Information Technology, with the main objective to establish technology strength in electronics materials for the present and future industrial requirement. Presently C-MET has three laboratories at Hyderabad, Pune and Thrissur. The high purity materials are the basic building blocks of electronics technology and therefore C-MET, Hyderabad, is involved in development as well as scaling up of operations for production of high purity metals, alloys, special dopants and semiconductor materials. The gamut of operations required in purification process includes hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, vacuum metallurgy, Electro-metallurgy, zone refining, electron beam melting etc. It also requires very advanced methods of analysing the impurities in ppm/ppb level employing emission spectrography, atomic absorption spectrometry, mass spectro-metry etc. To utilise the national mineral resources in the most optimum manner, C-MET, Hyderabad plans to take-up development activities for process technologies for high purity metals like Indium, Gold, Tantalum, Arsenic, Gallium, Bismuth, Tellurium, Selenium, Cadmium etc. 

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