Cooperative Agreement 70NANB25H152
- This $280,450 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Program (CFDA 11.609) will fund research by Theiss Research, a non-profit organization, to improve the accuracy of scanning electron microscope (SEM) measurements of nanometer-scale structures. The research will develop a new computational model based on density functional theory and the Bethe-Salpeter equation to better...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $215,018.91 Cooperative Agreement to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization located in La Jolla, California, under the NIST Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program. The purpose of this 3-year award, with a period of performance from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028, is to develop innovative tools and techniques to improve the manufacturability of superconducting quantum...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $289,529 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 11.042 - CHIPS Research and Development) to Steam Instruments Inc. for the development of a high-resolution ion microscope prototype. The project aims to implement rapid and accurate high-resolution ion microscopy technology to address materials characterization challenges of direct interest to the U.S. semiconductor industry, such as improving dopant concentration determinations and...
- 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 $144,342.63 to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization based in La Jolla, CA, from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027. The purpose of this award is to develop new methodology, algorithms, and computer software for determining local and nanoscale atomic and magnetic order in technological materials...
- 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 federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $251,615.97, was granted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program. The purpose of this 3-year project is for the awardee, Theiss Research, to utilize NIST's newly developed yield measurement apparatus to collect reference data on secondary and backscattered electron yields and emission energy spectra from well-characterized samples. The...
- This Cooperative Agreement award of $446,757.98 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program is for Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization in La Jolla, California. The award is to develop algorithms and firmware for Radio Frequency System-on-Chip (RFSOC) electronics to better control qubits and quantum sensors. Key activities include creating a scalable FPGA-based RFSOC...
- This $399,752 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) funds a Phase II project to develop standards and open-source software for digital data associated with semiconductor electronics. The project aims to support NIST initiatives related to the CHIPS Act and provide digital data standards to accelerate advanced materials research and development for...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $122,360 Cooperative Agreement grant under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization in La Jolla, California. The purpose of this 1-year grant, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, is to develop physical models of aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN)/gallium nitride (GaN)-based high-electron-mobility...
- This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program, provides $244,000.00 in funding to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization in La Jolla, CA. The purpose of this grant is to explain anomalous properties of solvent mixtures using computational dielectric spectroscopy, in order to help select solvent mixtures with specific dielectric...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) provides $128,221.02 to support research into surfactant-mediated electrochemical metal deposition, particularly for copper, rhodium, and iridium at the nanoscale. The project aims to optimize deposition processes, improve material performance, and support development of next-generation interconnect technologies critical to semiconductor manufacturing. The research will utilize advanced microscopy and modeling to study how surfactants affect metal deposition, with the goal of enabling improved fabrication of advanced interconnects, supporting CHIPS Act goals, and training the next generation of U.S. microelectronics workforce. The award was made to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization located in La Jolla, California, and the project will be conducted from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $128.2k | 9/10/25 |