# Public tenders Canonical results: https://zephior.com/de/tenders?categories=sbir-research-and-development 1 matching notices. Page 1. Filter semantics: OR within a filter, AND across filters and text search. Omitted statuses use active defaults; [] includes all statuses. --- title: "Monolithische Graphen-CMOS-Breitband-Bildebenen für die Zielerkennung bei schwachem Licht" canonical: "https://zephior.com/de/tenders/8d05d37f-9487-4a8a-bfc7-06033e802f0d/graphene-cmos-broadband-focal-plane-arrays-low-light-target-detection" last-updated: 2026-10-13T20:27:05.669755+00:00 --- # Monolithische Graphen-CMOS-Breitband-Bildebenen für die Zielerkennung bei schwachem Licht Ein offenes SBIR-Thema des US-Verteidigungsministeriums zielt auf breitbandige UV- bis langwellige Infrarot-Bildebenen mit Graphen und CMOS-Ausleseschaltung für Marinebildgebung bei schwachem Licht. Als technische Schwerpunkte nennt der Text waferweite Materialgleichmäßigkeit, reproduzierbare CMOS-Integration, stabile rauscharme Antwort und ein einsetzbares Bildgebungssystem. - Status: open - Country: US - Buyer: DOW / OSD - Submission deadline: 2026-10-21 (date) - Original notice: https://www.sbir.gov/topics/12965 - Source checked: 2026-10-13T20:20:22.738122Z ## Source-backed public facts ```json { "id": "8d05d37f-9487-4a8a-bfc7-06033e802f0d", "revision": 1, "modifiedAt": "2026-10-13T20:27:05.669755+00:00", "sourceCheckedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:22.738122Z", "stale": false, "url": "https://zephior.com/de/tenders/8d05d37f-9487-4a8a-bfc7-06033e802f0d/graphene-cmos-broadband-focal-plane-arrays-low-light-target-detection", "locale": "de", "title": "Monolithische Graphen-CMOS-Breitband-Bildebenen für die Zielerkennung bei schwachem Licht", "summary": "Ein offenes SBIR-Thema des US-Verteidigungsministeriums zielt auf breitbandige UV- bis langwellige Infrarot-Bildebenen mit Graphen und CMOS-Ausleseschaltung für Marinebildgebung bei schwachem Licht. 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This topic seeks to retire the principal risks that stand between these demonstrations and a fieldable naval imager: (1) graphene material quality and uniformity at the wafer scale — carrier mobility, Dirac-point control, low hysteresis, and low defect density (e.g., Raman D-to-G intensity ratio) held tight across full wafers and lot to lot; (2) repeatable, high-yield BEOL transfer, encapsulation, patterning, and contacting of graphene on CMOS read-out wafers; (3) absorber sensitization and passivation that deliver uniform, stable, low-noise broadband response; and (4) an imaging FPA meeting the noise-equivalent irradiance, dynamic range, frame rate, operability, and stability required for naval ISR. 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For this reason, you should use the agency link listed below which will take you directly to the appropriate agency server where you can read the official version of this solicitation and download the appropriate forms and rules.\nView Official Solicitation\nRelease Schedule\nRelease Date\nSeptember 2, 2026\nOpen Date\nSeptember 23, 2026\nDue Date(s)\nOctober 21, 2026\nClose Date\nOctober 21, 2026\nDescription\nThe Navy continues to field multiple seeker technologies to detect, identify and engage targets in multi-domain operations through obscurants. However, you cannot detect something you cannot see. Each wavelength range provide unique opportunity to glean information. Currently, for each wavelength range a distinct material system technology is required: AlGaN for UV, analog devices for NIR, InGaAs for short wavelength infrared (SWIR), HgCdTe (MCT) and III-V strain-layer superlattice (SLS) detectors for MWIR-LWIR. 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