Project Grant 0740877

This $279,854 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research at The Ohio State University to develop new spintronic material platforms for energy-efficient memory and computing applications. The investigators will focus on heterostructures consisting of ultrathin ferrimagnetic insulator films and adjacent metallic layers. They will grow and characterize high-quality bilayer films to optimize properties for applications by...

This Project Grant award of $360,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize computer memory by developing new materials and devices for high-density magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). The project will address critical challenges in material development and device fabrication for wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin heterostructures, which have the potential to surpass the limitations of conventional...

This $359,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of scalable three-terminal memory devices based on silicon-compatible antiferromagnetic materials at Northwestern University from June 2022 through May 2025. The university aims to design, fabricate, and characterize nonvolatile memory devices utilizing conductive antiferromagnetic materials like Mn3Sn, Mn3Ga, and IrMn3 that can be sputter deposited on silicon substrates. The project will demonstrate electrical read...

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...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of energy-efficient quantum materials-based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) for unconventional computing applications. The international, multi-institutional research team from the University of Minnesota, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi will conduct theoretical research, materials synthesis, and advanced...

Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $344,942 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research on non-volatile magnetic memory devices utilizing field-free spin-orbit torque switching of perpendicularly polarized magnets. The research aims to demonstrate field-free deterministic magnetization switching of three classes of ferromagnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy using electric field-induced out-of-plane spin...

This $592,502 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Michigan Technological University to develop novel magnetic nanomaterials compatible with silicon technology. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award will advance fundamental knowledge and computational modeling of transition metal silicide nanostructures. A multidisciplinary team will use integrated experimental and computational methods to fabricate and characterize...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to research and develop switchable persistent spin helix devices. The goal is to overcome key challenges in spintronic devices, which use electron spin rather than charge to carry information, by leveraging materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and electric-field tunable persistent...

This $750,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will support research on ferrimagnetic materials for fast nanoscale information processing. The primary awardee, the University of Central Florida, will conduct fundamental and applied research on the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel ferrimagnetic thin film samples. This includes growth, structural analysis, and measurement of the magnetic...