Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research

Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research

Established	1984;41 years ago (1984)
Field of research	Microwave Engineering and Electromagnetic Technologies
Director	Dr. P. Hanumantha Rao (Director General)
Location	Mumbai, India (headquarters)
Nickname	SAMEER
Operating agency	Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
Website	https://sameer.gov.in/

Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research (SAMEER) is an autonomous research and development institution under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. It was originally founded in 1984 as a laboratory under the then Department of Electronics and is an offshoot of the Microwave Engineering Group at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In 1988, it relocated to its headquarters within the IIT Bombay campus. ^[1]

History

• 1977 – The Special Microwave Products Unit (SMPU) was established at TIFR, Mumbai. ^[2]
• 1984 – SAMEER Mumbai was formally constituted from SMPU as an autonomous R&D unit under the Department of Electronics. ^[1]
• 1987–88 – The Chennai Centre (Centre for Electromagnetics, originally established in 1983) was merged into SAMEER in 1987, and the Mumbai unit moved to IIT Bombay campus by 1988. ^[1]
• 1994 onwards – Expansion to centres in Kolkata (Millimeter‑Wave Centre), Visakhapatnam (Electromagnetic Environmental Effects), and Guwahati (High‑Power Microwave Technology). ^[1]

Research areas

SAMEER's mission is to advance application‑oriented research in RF, microwave, millimeter‑wave electronics and electromagnetics, enabling development of indigenous technologies to reduce dependence on foreign imports. Its core research and service areas include:

• Linear accelerators for medical therapy (LINAC) ^[3]
• Medical imaging technologies (e.g., indigenously developed 1.5 T MRI) ^[4]
• Radar and atmospheric instrumentation. ^[5]
• Electromagnetic Interference & Compatibility (EMI/EMC), Electromagnetic Environmental Effects. ^[6]
• Photonics, optoelectronic systems and thermal management engineering. ^[7]
• Secure communications, antennas and millimeter‑wave subsystems. ^[8]
• Quantum technology and next‑generation telecom platforms (5G/6G). ^[9]

Centres

• SAMEER Mumbai – Headquarters at IIT Bombay; active in medical electronics, optoelectronics, MRI, atmospheric remote sensing, radar instrumentation, electromagnetic compatibility and more.
• Chennai Centre (CEM) – Specialized in Electromagnetics, EMI/EMC, antenna engineering, thermal management, and 5G/6G systems research.
• Kolkata Centre (Millimeter‑Wave) – Established in 1994; focuses on millimeter‑wave systems including CATR-based antenna testing.
• Visakhapatnam Centre (CE3) – Focused on Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3), EMI/EMC/EMP testing and strategic-level evaluation.
• Guwahati Centre (CHMTCT) – Based at IIT Guwahati; specializes in high‑power microwave tube and component technology.

Recent highlights

• In March 2025, AIIMS New Delhi signed a memorandum of understanding with SAMEER to collaborate on indigenous MRI and linear accelerator development under the national Indigenous MRI (IMRI) Mission. ^[10]

• On 10 August 2024, MeitY’s R&D Institute SAMEER signed a Transfer of Technology (ToT) agreement with two private firms for its Microwave‑Based Brix Measurement System (also called the SCORE system) to measure sugar concentration (Brix) rapidly and non‑destructively in sugar mills during production. ^[11]

• In December 2023, SAMEER, along with IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur, licensed an indigenous 5G RAN sub-system developed at the national 5G Test Bed to Tejas Networks for ₹12 crore (US$1.4 million). ^[12]

References

1. "About SAMEER | Introduction". sameer.gov.in. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
2. Dixit, T; Deshpande, A; Krishnan, R (1 January 2021). "Development of Accelerators for Medical Applications at SAMEER" (PDF). Physics News. 50 (4): 36–41. ISSN   0253-7583 . Retrieved 21 July 2025.
3. Dixit, Tanuja; Bansode, Nitin; Bhagwat, Amol; Chavan, Sharad; Deshpande, Abhay; Gaikwad, Ganesh; Ghosh, Soumyabrata; Krishnan, Ramamoorthy; Nainwad, Chandrakant; Panchal, Gajendra; Pethe, Sanjay; Thakur, Kiran; Ukey, Virendra; Vidwans, Mandar (2021). "Review of Medical Accelerator Development at Sameer, India". Proceedings of the 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference. IPAC2021: 3 pages. doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB209.
4. "SAMEER exchanges MoU on MRI and technology transfer of Linear Accelerator with industry in presence of Secretary, MeitY". www.pib.gov.in. Press Information Bureau. 27 May 2024.
5. Agarwal, A.; Aurobindo, K.; Isola, G.; Abhyankar, J. D.; Shrivastava, P.; Pillai, J. S.; Rambabu, S (2013). "Ka-Band Polarimetric Doppler Radar for Profiling of Low Level Clouds at Mumbai During Monsoon Season" (PDF). Proceedings of the 9th International Radar Symposium India (IRSI-13): 10–14.
6. Kini, K.R. (1997). "SAMEER-Centre for Electromagnetics-an EMC design consultancy centre". Proceedings of the International Conference on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility '99 (IEEE Cat. No. 99th 8487). IEEE. pp. 379–382. doi:10.1109/ICEMIC.1997.669834. ISBN   81-900652-0-3.
7. Saoji, Samruddhi; Rathi, Snehal; Jilkar, Nandini; Khedkar, Vijayshri; Paygude, Priyanka; Makkar, Roshan (23 August 2024). "A Machine-Agnostic Approach to Denoising OCT Images of the Retina". 2024 4th Asian Conference on Innovation in Technology (ASIANCON). IEEE. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/ASIANCON62057.2024.10837750. ISBN   979-8-3503-5421-8.
8. Kumar, Gande Arun; Mondal, Sibabrata; Biswas, Bijit; Poddar, D. R. (October 2018). "A Broadband Millimeter-Wave Waveguide Window: A Low-Cost Design for Environmental Protection". IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 66 (10): 4540–4547. Bibcode:2018ITMTT..66.4540K. doi:10.1109/TMTT.2018.2859311.
9. Marias, Stephen Las (25 June 2024). "SAMEER, MCTE, and Indian Army to Collaborate on Next-Gen Wireless Technologies". EE Times India . Retrieved 21 July 2025.
10. Thakur, Aksheev (26 March 2025). "A first: Indigenous MRI machine set for trials at AIIMS". The Tribune (India) . Retrieved 21 July 2025.
11. "SAMEER inks tech transfer agreement for commercial production of sugar content measurement". ThePrint . 10 August 2024.
12. "IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and SAMEER license 5G Tech to Tejas Networks for Rs 12 Cr". The Times of India. 12 December 2023.