Description
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting a Proposers Day for the Crystal Palace program, which aims to accelerate microsystem innovation by creating new tools and techniques to enable the rapid development of new complex thin-film inorganic materials at scale. The program has two technical challenges: precise local control of the material synthesis process and generalized control to enable broad applicability for many complex materials. The Proposers Day will include overview presentations, a poster session, and one-on-one breakout sessions with the Crystal Palace Program Manager.
Some key points about the program include:
• The program will consist of two 18-month phases, with the first phase focusing on complex material growth using added local control and the second phase focusing on the growth of multiple different complex materials.
• The program is interested in tools and processes that can synthesize different types of complex inorganic materials at single-crystal quality.
• Material complexity is considered in terms of the number of constituent elements or the number of possible competing crystal structures.
• The program metrics emphasize single crystal quality of the grown materials, uniformity across a 2-inch scale, and reproducibility of the growth process.