Project Grant 1641109

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park to explore a new class of low-loss phase change materials that can control light propagation and trigger mode transitions within photonic integrated circuits. The central aim is to leverage interference between transverse spatial modes of multimode waveguides to create a "synthetic modal dimension" and dynamically reconfigure...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $456,796 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to host a 3-year REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) site focused on optics and photonics technologies, systems, and devices. The award will engage 10 diverse undergraduate students each year in cutting-edge research projects, professional development activities, and exploration of STEM career paths and...

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 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...

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...

This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) will fund the development of new types of on-chip "topological photodetectors" that can detect and differentiate between different modes and properties of light, such as its phase, polarization, and orbital angular momentum. These novel photodetectors, based on emerging quantum materials like Weyl semimetals,...

Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $154,221 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The award will support research to realize and investigate time crystals in non-isolated systems using photons in miniaturized nonlinear optical devices. Specifically, the awardee will demonstrate discrete time crystals in dissipative...

This $2,125,000 federal Project Grant award under CFDA 12.431 Basic Scientific Research program, managed by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command, supports a multi-institution research collaboration to explore self-assembling metamaterials and non-Hermitian photonic devices. The lead institution, New York University, coordinates efforts with Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Illinois to...

This $550,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will support the University of Maryland, College Park in developing nanophotonic synthetic dimensions for analog quantum Hamiltonian simulators and sensing. The project aims to leverage low-loss nanophotonics to integrate synthetic dimensions on-chip using frequency and Floquet modes of driven microring resonators, extending this capability to the quantum regime. The research will focus on...