Project Grant 0924041

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the 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 $360,000 award to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside will support the development of wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin heterostructures to enable more efficient spin-orbit torque switching in MRAM...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program provides $260,000.00 in funding to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop high-performance, energy-efficient ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) for in-memory computing applications. The project aims to co-design two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric materials, interfaces, and multilayer stacks to achieve key FTJ performance metrics,...

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 Project Grant award of $631,792 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to develop material processes and devices that maximize the ferroelectric performance and endurance of trench capacitors for energy-efficient data storage. The key technical objectives are to: 1) Demonstrate non-planar, hafnia-based devices exhibiting greater than 10^15 switching endurance under back-end-of-line semiconductor processing conditions, and 2) Develop a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's 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 $360,000 award to Rutgers, The State University will fund research to enable MRAM devices using thin layers of special materials called van der Waals heterostructures on a wafer scale, which is crucial for practical semiconductor industry...

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...

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...

This $1,800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund a collaborative research project between the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The project aims to harness the unique properties of artificial magnetic semiconductors in two-dimensional (2D) materials to enable the development of next-generation electronic devices and components, including energy-efficient memory and logic devices. The...

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...