DARPA seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing Microsystems Technology Office programs or other published solicitations. The maximum funding for projects is USD$2M.
Current areas of interest include:
- Quantum circuits
- Interconnect technologies for transferring quantum states between qubit platforms
- Generalisation improvements for processing chain for all types of quantum sensors
- High density low loss mixed signal transfer between room and quantum temperatures
- Biological circuits
- High throughput molecular readers for full spectrum sequencing
- 3-Dimensional bio-templated self-assembly of microsystems
- highly-parallel DNA writing platforms for long DNA writes for genome-scale complexity with low error
- Photonic circuits
- Applications for purely photonic circuits not realisable in electronic circuits
- Chip scale photonics for ultralow noise microwave sources
- Tunable chip scale ultrafast (<10 ps) lasers
- Fiber-inspired ultralow loss integrated photonics
- Manufacturing Ecosystem
- Litho- and etch-free direct nanoscale semiconductor manufacturing
- Low-loss high permeability /permittivity materials
- High density cryogenic-to-room-temperature interconnects
- Atomically precise, multi-chemistry molecular manufacturing technologies
- Energy reclamation from low-grade waste heat
- Reconfigurable multiscale manufacturing for onshore manufacturing
- Dual Use by Design
- All-weather long distance high bandwidth communications
- Commercially relevant tool development challenge problems
- Conformal and malleable batteries
- Design and assembly of complex microsystems insupply-chain-free environments
- Reconfigurable additive manufacturing for multiple classes of materials
- Context aware imaging
Proposals will be accepted and assessed on a rolling basis until 9 October 2025.
Abstracts are encouraged but not mandatory.
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