Program Manager
Microsystems Technology Office
David Meyer, Ph.D., joined DARPA in February 2025 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office.
His research interests include electronic, optoelectronic, and acoustic applications of compound semiconductor and ultrawide bandgap materials, advanced device engineering and microfabrication, and 3D microsystem design and manufacturing.
Meyer previously served as the head of the Electromagnetic Technologies Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he managed a variety of basic and applied research projects related to emerging thin film materials and microwave- and millimeter-wave analog electronics for defense applications. At Penn State, Meyer focused on the development of silicon nitride passivation layers for gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors.
Education
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Ideas under incubation
- Flexoelectricity Utilizing Nanostructure: What are the different approaches that can be applied to manufacture flexoelectric materials? What challenges remain for these approaches for scale and efficient production? How can flexoelectric materials be used? What are the properties and performance advantages for these materials?
- Three dimensional microsystems: How do we surpass 2D design limitations and volumetric multi-material integration constraints to deliver high-performance 3D microsystems? Can we be bio-inspired to achieve more surface area for charge, heat or chemical exchange? What can these new three-dimensional microsystems enable?