SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA)
- Notice Date
- 6/29/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- BAA07-50
- Response Due
- 10/5/2007
- Archive Date
- 7/3/2008
- Description
- DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals to develop carbon-based electronics for RF applications. The Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program will develop wafer-scale graphene synthesis approaches focused on enabling ultra-high-speed, low-power graphene-channel field effect transistors. The CERA program will culminate in a demonstration of high performance W-band (> 90 GHz) low noise amplifiers (NF <1dB) making use of graphene transistors on wafers with diameters ≥ 8 inches. The cross wafer yield is expected to be better than 90% to assure the cost effectiveness of this technology. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in materials science, epitaxial growth, transistor development, and RF circuit design. The research needed to achieve the goals of the CERA program may be carried out through collaborations between different participants. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. 07-50, entitled "Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA)," is provided as an attachment to this solicitation notice and includes information on the specific areas of interest; the submission process; abstract and proposal formats; evaluation and selection/funding processes; as well as all other pertinent administrative and contractual information. The BAA may be obtained from the FedBizOpps website: http://www.fedbizopps.gov/, Grants.gov website: http://www.grants.gov/, World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.darpa.mil/mto (go to "solicitation" area) or by fax, electronic mail, or mail request to the administrative contact address given below. Proposals not meeting the format or following the submission instructions described in the BAA may not be reviewed. PROPOSER'S QUESTIONS A "Proposer's Questions," website will be posted for BAA 07-50 on the DARPA, Microsystems Technology Office solicitations page (www.darpa.mil/baa/#eto). If you would like to have a question answered and posted on this site, please send your question to the following address: BAA07-50@darpa.mil.
- Record
- SN01332003-W 20070701/070629231918 (fbodaily.com)
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