RANCHI: Prime minister’s make in India mission would not succeed unless technology for certain vital projects like space research, defence and missile technology is developed indigenously. With this view, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to fund Ranchi based scientist to conduct research on developing temperature sensors for aerospace application that would be utilized in missile/ rocket system for determination of its location in space.

Dr Vijay Nath, professor at the department of electronics and communication engineering at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra would now be working on a project titled design of ultra low power CMOS ( complementary metal oxide semiconductors) temperature sensors for aerospace application. Under sponsored research (Respond) project, Space Application Centre (SAC) of ISRO approved the proposal moved by Dr Nath sanctioning him Rs.25 lakh to fund his research work.

According to the letter issued by ISRO, Department of Space, copy of which is with the TOI, total duration for the project shall be three years which comprises two year time for chip design and one year for fabrication in HCL, Chandigarh. In the first year Rs.18.55 lakh will be released towards meeting the first year’s expenditure of the project.

Talking to TOI, Nath said that ultra low power CMOS temperature sensors are procured from Belgium and once the technology is developed indigenously it would revolutionise various projects that require temperature sensors.

“Every research project has its own secrecy but broadly the project deals in developing design and technology for manufacturing chips that would find place in the missiles to send real time information about its exact location in space,” he said.

Nath, who is a member, design team of very large scale integration (VLSI) -- the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip has been working on the topic for more than three years. “I had applied for seeking assistance from ISRO almost three years ago and after a long question answer series with the experts of the domain in ISRO final approval was given,” he said. Describing about the CMOS chip Nath said that it would be working below one Volt and based on difference in temperature in various spheres in space the chip would wirelessly transmit information about the exact location of missile from space for necessary computation on ground.