The Hindu Business Line : Moser Baer, IIT-Delhi to work on tech for optical data storage

MOSER Baer India Ltd has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, to work jointly in the frontier areas of thin film sputtering technology suitable for optical data storage devices. Towards this end, the two organizations signed a memorandum of understanding for a period of five years to jointly scour this hi-tech field.

While Padmashree Professor R.S. Sirohi, Director of IIT Delhi, signed the MoU on behalf of his institute, Mr Giriraj Nyati, Head of Engineering and Technology at Moser Baer, signed the MoU on behalf of the optical storage media major.

The Moser Baer's Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Deepak Puri, said, ``Moser Baer has always focused on applied research and development, and this is one of the corner stones that have enabled the company to develop new and innovative products-both in dye technology and the inorganic thin-film based optical data storage space. While we invest 2 per cent of our revenues on R&D, it is agreements like this one with organisations like IIT that really hold the potential to rewrite technology.''

``This agreement marks a giant step-a leading corporate and a top institute have come together to work jointly to develop technologies that the country would often seek support for from outside the country. India offers a plethora of young and talented Scientists who possess tremendous R&D capabilities. Collaborative R&D activities like this one are what will help break the confines of national boundaries and countries of origin,'' Professor R.S. Sirohi said.

Moser Baer's Mr Giriraj Nyati said there was enormous scope for the development of new technologies to enhance the current data storage capacity of optical formats-from 50 Gb to 200 Gb-using both organic and inorganic materials as the recording media. ``The current maximum recordable/rewritable capacity of optical media ranges from 4.7 to 8.5 Gb, which will be enhanced to a maximum of 50 Gb between 2007 and 2010. This enhancement will be attributed to the advent of Blu-ray technology,'' he said.

High-density DVD and Blu-ray discs are the two formats that are finding favour with top media companies today-the two formats are competing to become tomorrow's optical media standards.

Moser Baer, headquartered in New Delhi, employs over 4,500 people and has multiple manufacturing facilities in the suburbs of New Delhi, The company services its customers through six marketing offices and subsidiaries in India, the US, Europe and Japan.

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