Cooperative Agreement 2605167
- This $274,953 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program funds the development of more efficient and brighter organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for use in cell phones, tablets, and smart watches. The project aims to generate OLED displays that are 1.5 times more efficient and brighter than current models, which could result in up to 19% power savings for the 4.9 billion cell phones worldwide. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $305,000 to Elektrum Technologies, Inc. to develop an additive manufacturing process for producing low-cost, flexible, and transparent conductive electrodes. The goal is to create a more cost-effective alternative to indium tin oxide, which is a brittle material currently used in many optoelectronic applications. The Phase I project will focus on two key...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Wisconsin System $400,000 on October 15, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) enabled by correlated-electron transparent conductors. The project, performed at UW-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, runs through September 30, 2029. The work addresses the fundamental challenge of creating transparent conductor materials that...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $250,000 to Rutgers, The State University aims to improve the efficiency and operational lifetime of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays used in portable electronic devices. The project will integrate plasmonic metasurfaces into the back silver anode electrode of top-emitting phosphorescent blue OLED devices to enhance stability and efficiency. This technology has the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant to Light And Charge Solutions LLC DBA Margik under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop printable electron transport layers for organic electronics. The award period runs from May 15, 2021 through February 28, 2023 with performance taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina. Under this award, Margik will produce printable electron transport layers for use in organic electronic devices,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Labforinvention Corp a $1.248 million cooperative agreement on July 1, 2026, to develop scalable manufacturing technology for low-emissivity window coatings that permit mobile signal penetration. The award funds an SBIR Phase II project under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). Labforinvention will develop and refine a low-cost manufacturing process to apply microscopic patterns onto low-emissivity glass coatings. The...
- This $300,182 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Dartmouth College to develop new transparent conducting materials for optoelectronic applications. Specifically, the grantee will engineer the atomic composition, crystallinity, and electronic transport properties of two-dimensional metal oxide nanosheets printed from liquid metals. Initial studies show these 2D oxides have unique overlapping grain structures,...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the development of flexible, semitransparent organic solar cell modules tailored for greenhouse glazing integration by Polypv LLC. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), the $256,000 award issued on May 15, 2023 aims to optimize the active layer, electrodes, and encapsulation processes to produce high-performance flexible organic solar cells. The primary objectives are to develop...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop more stable and efficient organic light-emitting diodes for applications in horticulture and architectural lighting. Specifically, the awardee will work to improve the efficiency and stability of blue emission and overall light extraction from OLED sources through nanotechnology approaches such as...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Verde Technologies Incorporated $305,000 on October 1, 2026, under the SBIR Phase I program to develop perovskite solar cells fabricated directly on metal foil substrates. The work addresses three core objectives: improving metal foil surface quality to support high-quality thin-film growth, integrating efficient transport and absorber layers onto the metal substrate, and evaluating transparent top contact formation and substrate reuse pathways. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded Molecular Interfaces, LLC a $1.245569 million Cooperative Agreement on August 1, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop high-light-throughput transparent electrodes for OLED displays. The award funds research into thin metal electrode materials and manufacturing methods that maintain conductivity while improving transparency—overcoming the traditional trade-off where reducing electrode thickness diminishes electrical conductivity. The technology leverages high-affinity surface interactions to enable uniform metal layer formation at reduced thickness, improving light extraction efficiency in top-emitting and transparent OLED devices. Applications extend to smartwatches, phones, tablets, and monitors, with benefits including longer battery life, lower driving power, extended display lifetime, and cooler operation. The project encompasses stability validation to confirm compatibility with demanding production conditions across multiple OLED material stacks and device architectures. Work is performed in Chicago, Illinois, with a period of performance through July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.2m | 7/31/26 |