Project Grant 1821150

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $375,000 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of opportunistic millimeter-wave receivers and associated algorithms from 2023 to 2025. The University of Southern California will use the funding to create transceiver hardware and array-based receivers that can adaptively operate within the 18-54 GHz spectrum through machine learning techniques. The receivers will identify available...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) is for $514,633 to The Pennsylvania State University to develop scalable sub-terahertz phased array technologies for advanced wireless communications and sensing applications. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Creating new application-specific phased array architectures above 200 GHz using heterogeneous integration of InP, SiGe, and antenna components to overcome...

This STTR Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) focuses on the commercialization of a novel tunable resonator circuit technique for radio frequency integrated circuits. The $275,000 project, awarded to the small business Echoics, will develop a prototype transceiver integrated circuit with wide frequency flexibility. This technology aims to improve the quality, reliability, and coverage of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,500,000 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop an energy- and spectrum-efficient millimeter-wave (mmW) transmitter array system for next-generation wireless communications. The key objectives are to: 1) Utilize heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging to embed high-power wide-bandgap...

This three-year, $299,937 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at San Diego State University and collaborating institutions on energy-efficient terahertz communications technologies for beyond fifth-generation wireless systems. The award funds four interconnected research thrusts: 1) channel estimation, performance analysis, and hardware design for doubly massive MIMO systems using...

This is a Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, totaling $380,000 and spanning from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The award supports the development of wideband, ultra-linear transceiver circuits that can access large frequency bands between 7-24 GHz using electronic tuning rather than mechanical filters. This will enable agile, programmable radios capable of dynamically sharing spectrum with...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $250,000 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop novel transceiver architectures, circuit blocks, design techniques, and communication strategies to enable energy-efficient millimeter wave wireless networks. The research effort...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $458,725 to the University of California, Irvine to develop scalable, integrated radar transceivers operating at millimeter-wave and near-terahertz frequencies. The 5-year project aims to design radar systems with enhanced resolution and sensing capabilities by leveraging segmented phase-locked architectures and bio-inspired techniques. Key objectives include integrating multi-band...

This Project Grant award of $400,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Brown University supports fundamental research to develop key building blocks for realizing next-generation wireless networks operating in the sub-THz spectrum above 100 GHz. The project will yield three primary research outputs: 1) a method for rapid localization of mobile users to enable highly directive transmissions, 2) the first experimental sub-THz network enabling...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the University of California, Berkeley to develop novel intelligent large-scale multi-antenna array architectures operating at 140 GHz. The key products and services to be delivered include: Analytical and behavioral modeling of non-idealities in large scalable antenna arrays Design of reconfigurable D-band (140 GHz) front-ends with performance tuning...