Cooperative Agreement W911NF2420193

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 $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a chip technology to enable cheaper and easier manufacturing of photonic devices. The key objectives are to: (1) create a laser control system for optical fiber attachment, (2) develop a process design kit for mode converter manufacturing, and (3) pilot the developed packaging technology. The awardee, Photonect...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $409,834 to the University of Cincinnati to design, fabricate, and characterize novel electrically pumped topological nanowire photonic crystal lasers. The goal is to develop highly compact, defect-robust laser light sources compatible with photonic integrated circuits for high-performance, low-power information technology applications. The research will explore topologically...

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...

OAM Photonics LLC will develop a high-performance, compact, and lightweight 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor under a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The LIDAR sensor aims to enable more affordable drone-based, high-precision mapping applications by leveraging coherent LIDAR detection and silicon photonics technology in an innovative design. The compact form factor sensor...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program project grant award provides $300,000 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to conduct research on integrated photonic platforms leveraging solution-processed wide-bandgap cesium lead halide perovskites. The 2-year project, starting January 1, 2025, aims to advance the understanding of perovskite crystal growth and patterning synthesis, as well as develop cost-effective integrated photonic devices that can enable...

This is a federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program. The $127,230 award to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization, will fund a 3-year project to study, develop, and experimentally demonstrate integrated photonic structures for coupling light between free space and photonic integrated circuits. The project activities will include analytical and...

This Project Grant award of $275,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) photonic platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The award recipient, Brightlight Photonics, Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Cambridge, MA, will develop efficient methods for doping sapphire, optimize plasma etching, and produce a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $547,117 to Trustees of Tufts College to develop a platform for scalable, nanoscale wavefront shaping using multimode photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The goal is to create compact mode superposition control devices based on high-resolution thermo-optic and electro-optic refractive index modulation, enabling ultra-compact, fully integrated chip-scale beam steering devices. These...