Cooperative Agreement W911NF2520054

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the University of California, Berkeley to develop novel intelligent large-scale multi-antenna array architectures operating at 140 GHz. The key products and services to be delivered include: Analytical and behavioral modeling of non-idealities in large scalable antenna arrays Design of reconfigurable D-band (140 GHz) front-ends with performance tuning...

This $450,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) seeks to advance wireless communication technologies by incorporating a new type of reconfigurable antenna, known as a dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA), into multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. The key objectives are to develop methods to integrate DMAs into MIMO to create a "tri-hybrid MIMO...

The U.S. Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $433,751 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to Florida International University (FIU). The grant supports the development of an electronic system for performing analog-digital beamforming with potential applications in electronic warfare. Key research tasks are being carried out at the University of Arkansas, which has received a $926,000 sub-award to focus on the design,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,993 to Amrf LLC, a small business located in San Jose, CA, focuses on the design and development of ultra-wideband beamforming integrated circuits. The project aims to establish the feasibility of using a novel radio-frequency fractional Hilbert transformation design theory to create wideband RF front-end systems with phased arrays, which have the potential to transform...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $276,000 to Astrabeam LLC and Penn State University to develop a D-band, silicon-based phased array radar front-end module for smart sensing applications. Specifically, the awardees will design, model, simulate, and demonstrate a prototype radar module operating beyond 100 GHz with wide bandwidth. The scalable, area-efficient front-end architecture and phased array...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) provides $119,639 to Michigan State University (MSU) to conduct research and development on "HIGH-ACCURACY LOCALIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA ARRAYS." This award falls under the DoD's Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which funds foundational and applied research to advance military capabilities across diverse scientific and technical...

This $440,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of a semiconductor plasma phased array system with integrated performance-to-radiator mapping capabilities. The primary objectives are to: (1) develop a plasma phased array focusing on feed network solutions, and (2) create fast AI/ML-supported reconfiguration algorithms to enable real-time mapping of system performance to the radiator profile. The project aims...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University a $249,992 Project Grant under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) from February 15, 2021 to February 14, 2022. The grant funds research titled "MASSIVE MIMO AND MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED TACTICAL COMMUNICATION FOR SWARM NETWORKS: DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT." This project supports basic research related to improving Army...

This $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of cutting-edge circuit designs and signal processing algorithms to enhance the resilience of radio telescopes against radio frequency interference (RFI) from satellite transmissions. The primary goal is to enable the continued operation of radio astronomy service (RAS) in the presence of unavoidable RFI through a modulo sampling-based approach. The research...

This $545,961 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) seeks to revolutionize the field of microwave circuit design by developing an advanced inverse design (InvDes) framework. The project aims to create a systematic approach for the inverse design of planar microwave and millimeter wave devices, including filters, splitters, baluns, and antennas, to meet complex performance requirements and fabrication constraints. Key objectives...