Cooperative Agreement 2025848

This STTR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The $275,000 award, with a performance period from February 15, 2025 to October 31, 2025, will enable the scalable production of integrated Ti:Sapphire lasers and amplifiers in the wavelength range...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $480,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a novel compact high-power terahertz (THz) oscillator capable of operating at room temperature. This 3-year project aims to fill a gap in THz technology and enable the use of the THz spectrum for applications such as imaging, spectroscopy, sensing, computing, and communications. The key innovation is...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program, CFDA 47.083, provides $539,000 to develop a Rydberg tweezer quantum processor with real-time optical cavity readout at the University of California, Berkeley from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The award will enable measurements of a portion of a complex quantum system while the remainder continues to evolve coherently. This will be realized using arrays of optically trapped single atoms with...

This two-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at Washington University in City, Missouri to develop a quantum tunneling-based framework for zero side-channel key generation and distribution. The Engineering Directorate program seeks to advance engineering innovation and excellence. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate using an array of self-powered, phase-locked timers that operate via Fowler-Nordheim quantum tunneling to emulate...

Federal Grant Award Summary Icarus Quantum Inc. received a $305,000 SBIR Phase I project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2026. The company will develop and evaluate the feasibility of a high-efficiency, tunable source for generating polarization-entangled photon pairs using semiconductor quantum dot (QD) technology. The project deliverable...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $379,921 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska will support research and development of semiconductor-based terahertz (THz) traveling wave amplifiers for monolithic integration. The goal is to create high-gain THz amplifier topologies in the 0.1 to 3 THz range by exploiting the synchronous interaction between moving charged particles and electromagnetic waves in semiconductor materials. The...

This STTR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a compact, high-precision volume grating-based spectrometer prototype. The $305,000 award to Tau Optics Inc. focuses on enhancing the performance of rotated chirped Bragg gratings (R-CBGs) to broaden the operational bandwidth and improve spectral resolution for applications in color measurement and Raman spectroscopy. The...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, focuses on the development of a nonlinear eigenmode expansion simulation tool for modeling nonlinear optical interactions in complex waveguide structures. The $305,000 award to Emode Photonix LLC, a woman-owned small business in Boulder, Colorado, aims to create a new computer program that will enhance...

This SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $275,000 to Unlab LLC, a small business located in Savannah, GA, to develop a new type of propulsion system based on quantum vacuum fluctuations. The project aims to fabricate asymmetric nanostructure devices on micro-scale cantilevers and measure the deflection caused by the forces generated through the interaction between quantum vacuum fluctuations...

This is a $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) to Vanderbilt University. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "CQIS: On-Chip Nanoscale Trap and Enhance Device (NOTED) for Quantum Photonics." The project aims to develop an integrated on-chip device that can rapidly assemble and enhance the rate of single photon production for advancing quantum technologies like secure data communication,...