Cooperative Agreement 70NANB25H077
- This $274,786 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of a cutting-edge scanning magnetometer microscope by Femtosenselabs, LLC. This new microscope technology will enable high-resolution imaging of novel magnetic materials with unprecedented sensitivity at the nanoscale, supporting the advancement of spintronics and the development of...
- The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $305,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) to Odmr Technologies, Inc. to develop a miniature diamond quantum sensor for magnetoencephalography (MEG). The key objectives are to: 1) Build a miniature flux-concentrator diamond sensor with infrared absorption detection, and 2) Demonstrate a sensitivity of ~10 femtotesla for 1 second...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $450,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support a research project titled "Nanoscale Quantum Sensing of Correlations Using NV Centers in Diamond". The objective is to develop methods to directly measure magnetic noise correlations in materials using quantum sensors based on nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. This will provide a new way to understand...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program provides $135,000 to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization, to develop chip-based devices with integrated quantum dots. The purpose is to support basic quantum science research and applications in quantum information technologies, such as quantum computing and quantum networks. The key...
- Advent Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $400,000 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620) to develop phosphorus-doped diamond for quantum sensor applications. Advent Diamond will conduct a feasibility study during Phase I to fabricate doped diamond epiwafer samples, demonstrate the feasibility of fabricating nitrogen-vacancy centers in the epiwafers, and perform...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $120,457.91 cooperative agreement to Theiss Research of La Jolla, California under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program. The agreement will support research from August 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 to develop a magnetic field sensor based on the magneto-electroluminescence response of organic light emitting diodes. The Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program aims to provide...
- This two-year, $231,696 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.049) will support research exploring electric field sensing with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond and chemical tuning of the diamond host material. Specifically, the principal investigator and research team at San Jose State University will investigate new routes for chemically activating the surface of nanoscale diamond particles to generate covalent bonds...
- This $1,634,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize live-cell imaging by developing nanodiamond quantum sensors with exceptional sensitivity. The research, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging", will integrate nanodiamond quantum sensors with advanced light-sheet microscopy to achieve high spatiotemporal resolution and low...
- This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), aims to develop algorithms and firmware for RFSOC electronics to better control qubits and quantum sensors. The key activities include: Developing, testing, and publicly releasing a scalable FPGA-based RFSOC quantum control system for performing direct digital synthesis (DDS) without up- and...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) provides $100,000 in funding to Femtosenselabs, LLC to fabricate diamond with aligned nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, which are spin qubits used for magnetometry. The goal is to develop ultra-sensitive magnetic field sensors that can have immediate impact on applications such as medical imaging, navigation, and brain-machine interfacing. The project involves conducting simulations, upgrading experimental setups, performing measurements, and preparing a final report to determine the feasibility of applying a stimulus to break the degeneracy in the formation energy and orientation of NV centers, which would improve the performance of NV center-based magnetic field sensors. The award period runs from August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $100.0k | 7/28/25 |