Cooperative Agreement 2528323
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. provides $274,997 to address critical technical challenges in scaling up barium titanate on silicon technology for photonic integrated circuits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year project include: Developing a process to mitigate the thermal stress that arises from integrating barium titanate, an optical material, with silicon...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Photonect Interconnect Solutions Inc., a small business in Rochester, New York. The award aims to develop a chip technology for cheaper and easier photonic device manufacturing, with a focus on improving data communications through advanced photonic components. Key objectives include creating a laser control system for optical fiber...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business in Chicago, Illinois, to develop foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink. The project aims to create black phosphorus-based inks that can be integrated directly onto silicon photonic chips to produce on-chip lasers. This...
- 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...
- This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at The Washington University in St. Louis to develop a heterogeneous photonic integration platform. The key technical objectives are to: Enable the van der Waals integration of dissimilar functional nanomembranes, including barium titanate, gallium nitride, and cobalt ferrite, onto silicon and silicon nitride photonic circuits. This will allow the creation of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $305,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to LR Innovoptics Inc. in Tucson, AZ. This SBIR Phase I project aims to develop a high-throughput 3D printing system for fabricating high-performance, high-contrast glass micro-optics. The goal is to create a faster, more scalable, and cost-effective manufacturing process for these critical optical components used in cameras, lasers, medical devices,...
- Photonect Interconnect Solutions Inc. received a $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a chip technology for cheaper and easier photonic device manufacturing. The company will focus on a new fusion splicing machine and novel silicon dioxide mode converter that enables faster, more accurate, and lower cost fiber placement on chips compared to existing technologies....
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Semergytech, Inc., a small business based in Arlington, Texas. The funding supports the development and commercialization of high-speed, high-power, single-mode photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSELs). The project aims to address current limitations in semiconductor laser technologies by creating a disruptive PCSEL...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of $275,000 awarded to Lumoniq Inc. supports research and development of a nanoscale hybrid optical interconnect platform to revolutionize internal computer chip connections. The project aims to commercialize a new approach called Coupled Hybrid Plasmonics (CHP) that uses the interaction of light and metals to enable high-bandwidth, low-power,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Topolight, Inc. focuses on the development of a new class of compact, high-power, single-mode laser chips with photonic crystal cavity design. The goal is to advance the technology for applications in remote sensing, environmental monitoring, satellite communication, and biomedical devices. The key innovation is a laser architecture that maintains single-mode operation...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,210,801 to La Luce Cristallina, Inc., a small business in Austin, Texas, to develop foundry-compatible 200mm silicon-integrated epitaxial barium titanate wafers for silicon photonics applications. The project aims to enable innovative integrated silicon photonics by providing semiconductor fabrication services for this superior optical material, which can result in new device architectures, high-density networks, and technologies not feasible with current materials. Key deliverables include developing chemical-mechanical polishing and wafer bonding processes, as well as the necessary process design kits, to enable mass production of these advanced barium titanate-on-silicon wafers. This is expected to unlock new possibilities in areas such as data centers, quantum computing, and neuromorphic computing by providing an optical modulation material with superior characteristics.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.2m | 9/4/25 |