Project Grant 1345168

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...

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...

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,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $275,000 to Brightlight Photonics, Inc., a small disadvantaged business based in Cambridge, MA, to develop a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process for integrated Ti:Sapphire lasers and amplifiers operating in the 700 - 1000 nm wavelength range. The key objectives of this 9-month project are to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Coherent Photonics, LLC is intended to develop innovative metasurface optical waveguiding devices (MOWGs) that control light on a subwavelength level. The project aims to overcome the limitations of traditional optical systems, such as weight, size, scalability, and cost, by employing metasurface assemblies containing waveguiding structures. The broader impacts of this...

This $550,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, will support Baylor University in improving silicon photonics chip processing to produce more energy-efficient photonic devices and circuits. The project will integrate a new conductive oxide material, hydrogen-doped indium oxide (IHO), into the existing silicon photonics process to enhance device performance while maintaining...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award, made under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), provides $1,000,000 in funding to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business based in Chicago, Illinois. The award supports the development of foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink. The key objective is to create black phosphorus-based inks that can be integrated directly onto...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000.00 over a 4-year period to Purdue University to develop a novel hybrid thin film platform with unique optical properties for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The research aims to advance understanding of electro-optical and magneto-optical coupling effects in complex nanoscale hybrid metamaterials, and demonstrate key building blocks for future large-scale PICs including...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $255,000 Project Grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) to theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate compact, on-chip III-V lasers that are robust, efficient, and have a tailorable single-mode operation range. The proposed program aims to develop a family of topologically protected lasers to satisfy requirements for next-generation lasers used in photonic integrated circuits...

Photonect Interconnect Solutions Inc. received a $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a chip technology for cheaper and easier photonic device manufacturing. The company will focus on a new fusion splicing machine and novel silicon dioxide mode converter that enables faster, more accurate, and lower cost fiber placement on chips compared to existing technologies....