Technologybusiness Opportunity Nobleicemodulated Tender - 139674347

Procurement Summary

Country: USA

Summary: Technologybusiness Opportunity Nobleicemodulated Superconducting Circuit

Deadline: 16 May 2026

Posting Date: 17 Apr 2026

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 139674347

Document Ref. No.: 2025-129

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Tender Details

Opportunity:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract no. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to enter into a collaboration to further develop and commercialize its nobel-ice-modulated superconducting circuit.
Background:
Superconducting resonators and qubits must hit target frequencies with ± kHz precision, yet lithography, thin-film variation and unknown surface adsorbates routinely scatter them by 100 MHz—forcing designers to leave wide spacing between elements, accept low wafer yield, or add lossy, noisy tuning hardware. Today-s state-of-the-art fixes are: (1) embedded SQUID loops flux-biased through extra control lines—effective but limited in range and plagued by 1/f flux noise and wiring overhead; (2) ex-situ trims such as laser annealing of Josephson junctions (LASIQ, 2022) or Alternating-Bias Assisted Anneal (ABAA, 2024)—which shrink spread at room temperature but drift back during cryogenic cooldown; and (3) geometric over-etch / dielectric varactors for MKIDs—adding fabrication steps and introducing loss. None of these approaches simultaneously offer large tuning range, zero added dissipation, minimal complexity, and the ability to correct shifts after the device reaches its 10 mK operating temperature. A gap therefore remains for a passive, cryogenic, loss-free post-fabrication tuning method that can collapse frequency scatter without compromising coherence or scaling economics—a gap the neon-ice heater technology directly targets
Description:
A neon-filled, hermetic package lets a thin film of solid neon coat a superconducting-resonator chip at millikelvin temperatures. Simple on-chip heaters briefly raise local spots to ≈25 K, causing the neon ice there to sublimate and redeposit elsewhere; thinning or thickening this ultra-low-loss dielectric shifts each resonator (or qubit) frequenc...
Notice ID: 2025-129

Department/Ind. Agency: energy, department of

Sub-tier: energy, department of

Office: llns – doe contractor

NAICS Code: 334413 - Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing

Inactive Dates: may 31, 2026

Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date

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