SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- CRYOGEN-FREE SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET CRYOSTAT SYSTEM
- Notice Date
- 5/4/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-12-SS25
- Archive Date
- 6/1/2012
- Point of Contact
- Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
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todd.hill@nist.gov
(todd.hill@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a cryogen-free superconducting magnet cryostat system. This system will be used in magneto-transport measurements to characterize carrier transport in nanoelectronic devices. Direct-current and alternating-current measurements in a cryogenic, variable-temperature, controlled environment with applied magnetic fields will be made of structures in a "packaging header" that can be rotated with respect to the applied magnetic fields. The Nanoelectronic Device Metrology (NEDM) Project in the Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division at NIST, is developing the metrology that will help enable emerging nanoelectronic technologies to supplement and/or supplant conventional CMOS. As part of this effort, the NEDM is developing innovative measurement approaches to speed the search for new information processing devices (such as those based upon materials such as graphene) that show significant advantage over ultimate FETs in power, performance, density, and/or cost. The NEDM requires a cryogen-free superconducting magnet cryostat system capable of electrically characterizing novel device structures based upon two dimensional systems such as graphene in the presence of large magnetic fields. The system will be used to characterize the electronic properties of novel nanoelectronics devices and component materials (such as graphene) that can be used in Post-CMOS electronics at large magnetic fields and from cryogenic temperatures to room temperature. The current, voltage, capacitance, and resistance will be measured as a function of magnetic field. By combining a relatively small magnetic field modulated at low frequencies with the large magnetic field applied by the superconducting magnet, very small changes in the resistance of the devices under test can be measured as a function of magnetic field with unparalleled sensitivity by using lock-in amplifier techniques. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for a cryogen-free superconducting magnet cryostat system that can meet NIST's minimum requirements, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted would be conducted as a small business set-aside. NIST has a need for cryogen-free superconducting magnet cryostat system that would meet the following requirements: 1. CRYOGEN-FREE: System must be a closed-cycle, cryogen-free cryostat using a pulse tube refrigerator or equivalent cooling approach. System must not require the use of liquid helium or liquid nitrogen. 2. SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET: System must have the sample space within a superconducting magnet providing a 12 Tesla or larger magnetic field (14 T or larger preferred). 3. MODULATED MAGNETIC FIELD: NIST strongly prefers a system which can include the ability to apply a magnetic field modulated in time simultaneously to the application of the large magnetic field up to the maximum specified field of the larger superconducting magnet. 25 mT (250 Gauss) at 20 Hz is required. Larger fields and/or higher frequencies are preferred. Any response to this notice should address these potential capabilities in detail. 4. TEMPERATURE: The system must be able to cool and control the sample temperature from 300 K (or higher) down to 2 K (or lower). Temperature must be controllable to better than 25 mK at temperatures below 100 K and 50 mK or better at all higher temperatures. 5. COOLING TIME: Sample cool-down to base temperature, less than 1 hour. Magnet cool-down, less than 72 hours. 6. SAMPLE ROTATION: The system must be capable of rotating the sample in situ (i.e., while cold and under magnetic field) from perpendicular to the applied magnetic field to parallel to the magnetic field. 7. SAMPLE SIZE: The system must be capable of measuring pre-packaged samples that are 1 cm X 1 cm in size. Larger sample areas are preferred. 8. WIRING: The system requires 16 or more wires that will connect to the sample mount. A minimum of 8, but preferably all 16, of these wires will be individually shielded low-noise, low leakage cabling. 9. ELECTRONICS: The system will include all electronics including temperature controller, superconducting magnetic field power-supply and controller, and AC modulation coil power supply. 10. EASE OF USE: The system must be operable by one person from sample loading/unloading to full cool-down and operation. 11. UPGRADABLE: The system must be upgradeable in the future to achieve lower temperatures (such as by adding a He-3 insert or a dilution refrigerator insert). NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334516, as those domestic sources having 500 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture such cryogen-free cryostat systems are requested to email a detailed response describing their abilities to todd.hill@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The response should include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name of the company that manufactures the system components for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). 3. Indication of number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of such systems. 4. Indication of whether each instrument for which specifications are sent to todd.hill@nist.gov are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research.
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