Cooperative Agreement 70NANB15H024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $113,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization located in La Jolla, California. The purpose of this 3-year project is to obtain reference data for nanoparticle standards that are commonly used yet incompletely characterized, improving the quality and reliability of measurement methods for developing...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to Colloidal Metrics Corporation of Mountain View, California under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620) to support innovative emulsion polymerization manufacture of dual-function, calibration spheres over the range of 100 to 400 nanometers in diameter. The agreement period was from August 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. Under this...

This STTR Phase I grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program supports the development of a compact, multi-wavelength interferometric system for real-time, in-situ metrology in high-precision optical manufacturing. The $274,524 project aims to deliver a market-ready, on-machine metrology system that can improve efficiency and accuracy in diamond tool alignment, surface metrology, and overall manufacturing throughput by...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 to Diffract Technology Inc. is focused on developing a novel, high-resolution 3D optical metrology tool for precision manufacturing and industrial applications. The project aims to create a computer-generated holographic system capable of performing rapid, non-contact 3D measurements with sub-10-micron resolution over a large field of view. The advanced 3D...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $150,000 cooperative agreement to The Pennsylvania State University under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program to develop a platform for manufacturing miniature atomic vapor cells compatible with CMOS and integrated photonic elements. Over the one-year period from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023, Penn State researchers will develop a novel microfabrication process to encapsulate atomic vapors inside...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $259,848.73 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Primenano, Inc., a for-profit technology company, to develop an advanced prototype of a measurement technology for in-line metrology. The project aims to create a non-destructive, wafer-based measurement system with applications in materials purity, electrical properties, 3D device, and next-generation manufacturing. Primenano...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $779,240 to support research at the University of Notre Dame advancing lithography-free manufacturing techniques for metal nanostructures separated by nanogaps. Specifically, the award funds work through August 2025 to define benchtop fabrication methods for integrating opposing metal surfaces separated by sub-5 nm nanogaps into applications in plasmonics and molecular...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program provides $199,558 in funding to North Carolina State University (NC State) from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2027. The purpose of this award is to conduct fundamental research on cure kinetics, chemorheology, viscoelastic properties, and cure shrinkage of representative model materials (RGTMs) to better...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a scalable manufacturing process for three-dimensional nanostructured materials. The funding supports an I-Corps project to commercialize a lithographic nanomanufacturing technique using colloidal particles for volumetric patterning of photosensitive polymers. This bottom-up self-assembly approach aims to...

This $299,861 National Science Foundation project grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research at Georgia Tech Research Corporation to generate knowledge for manufacturing light-based miniaturized quantum devices through three-dimensional printing of meta-photonic elements. The two-year project beginning February 2023 aims to develop design rules and building blocks for nanoscale 3D printing and pattern transfer techniques to convert printed polymeric structures into...