Project Grant 1534779

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 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program project grant award provides $300,000 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to conduct research on integrated photonic platforms leveraging solution-processed wide-bandgap cesium lead halide perovskites. The 2-year project, starting January 1, 2025, aims to advance the understanding of perovskite crystal growth and patterning synthesis, as well as develop cost-effective integrated photonic devices that can enable...

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....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $547,117 to Trustees of Tufts College to develop a platform for scalable, nanoscale wavefront shaping using multimode photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The goal is to create compact mode superposition control devices based on high-resolution thermo-optic and electro-optic refractive index modulation, enabling ultra-compact, fully integrated chip-scale beam steering devices. These...

This Project Grant award of $275,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) photonic platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The award recipient, Brightlight Photonics, Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Cambridge, MA, will develop efficient methods for doping sapphire, optimize plasma etching, and produce a...

This $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a chip technology to enable cheaper and easier manufacturing of photonic devices. The key objectives are to: (1) create a laser control system for optical fiber attachment, (2) develop a process design kit for mode converter manufacturing, and (3) pilot the developed packaging technology. The awardee, Photonect...

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...