Project Grant 0912735

The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded $256,000 to Nonlinear Materials Corporation of Seattle, Washington under Project Grant STTR PHASE I: ROBUST HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANIC ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIALS. The award period runs from April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2022. Under this award, Nonlinear Materials Corporation will develop robust high-performance organic electro-optic materials to deliver under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, focuses on the development of a nonlinear eigenmode expansion simulation tool for modeling nonlinear optical interactions in complex waveguide structures. The $305,000 award to Emode Photonix LLC, a woman-owned small business in Boulder, Colorado, aims to create a new computer program that will enhance...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. provides $274,997 to address critical technical challenges in scaling up barium titanate on silicon technology for photonic integrated circuits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year project include: Developing a process to mitigate the thermal stress that arises from integrating barium titanate, an optical material, with silicon...

This $305,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, is developing innovative metasurface optical waveguiding devices (MOWGs) that control light on a sub-wavelength level. The goal is to overcome the limitations of traditional optical systems, such as weight, size, scalability, and cost, by replacing conventional optical components like lenses and...

Grant Summary La Luce Cristallina, Inc. received a Cooperative Agreement award of $1.21 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), effective September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop and commercialize foundry-compatible 200-millimeter wafers of barium titanate (BaTiO₃) integrated on silicon for silicon photonics...

Bluedot Photonics, Inc. was awarded a $255,927 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on February 15, 2021 to support work under the SBIR PHASE I: QUANTUM CUTTING DOWNCONVERSION LAYERS FOR IMPROVED SOLAR PV PERFORMANCE award. The award is being carried out in Seattle, WA through May 31, 2022. Under this NSF SBIR Phase I award, issued through the Engineering (47.041) program, Bluedot Photonics is developing quantum cutting downconversion layers to improve the performance of solar...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $213,879 to support research understanding and exploiting non-linear behavior of phase-change materials for millimeter-wave applications. The award period is from September 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grantee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will conduct research on behalf of the principal investigator to analyze phase-change materials' non-linear properties...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of $275,000 awarded to Lumoniq Inc. supports research and development of a nanoscale hybrid optical interconnect platform to revolutionize internal computer chip connections. The project aims to commercialize a new approach called Coupled Hybrid Plasmonics (CHP) that uses the interaction of light and metals to enable high-bandwidth, low-power,...

Impact Photonics LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible single photon avalanche diode. The SBIR program is intended to support scientific research and development that has the potential for commercialization. Under this Phase I award made on November 1, 2021 for a one-year period ending December 31, 2022, Impact Photonics...