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 ultrawide bandgap materials and devices, parallelization of microscale and nanoscale additive manufacturing, and multifunctional distributed membrane microsystems.
Meyer previously served as the head of the Electromagnetic Technologies Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he managed a host of basic and applied research projects related to emerging thin film materials and microwave & 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
- Inverse design methodology: What are the inverse design approaches and algorithms that can be used to overcome the sequential design process for conventional microelectronics system integration, which generally precludes optimization across all packaging levels?
- Microelectronics advanced packaging: What approaches can be applied to overcome the three-dimensional integrated circuit multi-physics design challenges that consider the co-design of electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties while reducing volume and increasing packing density?
- Multi-material class integration for microelectronics: What are the novel ways to exploit opportunities and overcome challenges when additively integrating disparate material classes and materials with diverse deposition and compliance requirements, yet still maintaining flexibility with close proximity 3D placement?