RRCAT function tomorrow

RAJA RAMANNA Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) will observe its foundation day on February 19. Prof P Balaram, recipient of Padma Shri, and Director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be the chief guest at the function.

RAJA RAMANNA Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) will observe its foundation day on February 19. Prof P Balaram, recipient of Padma Shri, and Director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be the chief guest at the function.

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Prof Balaram has carried out pioneering work in bio-organic chemistry and molecular biophysics, a press release issued here said.

Since its inception in 1984, RRCAT has grown into a premier laboratory for accelerators, lasers and related technologies in the country and its research and development programmes have received worldwide acclaim.

With setting up of Indus-2, a 2.5 GeV synchrotron radiation source at the Centre last year, India has joined an elite group of a dozen countries that have constructed sophisticated machines. Synchrotrons are modern-day light sources, which give radiation covering the entire range from x-rays to infrared and are a bonanza for researchers and for industrial application.

The Centre has also made pioneering contribution towards refurbishing nuclear power reactor through its indigenously developed laser-based technology, which was successfully demonstrated at Narora Atomic Power Station in May 2006.
RRCAT has also developed laser-based technologies for biomedical applications.