Project Grant 1840843

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant award, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, is to develop a subtractive-waveguide-based display technology for augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. The $275,000 grant, awarded on March 1, 2024, aims to create a display solution that can achieve pixel-wise transparency control and hard-edge occlusion using a single CMOS display panel. This would...

This SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program, with a total funding amount of $274,985, is focused on developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accelerate semiconductor production using physics-embedded lithographic foundation models. The project aims to alleviate design and manufacturing complexities associated with the shift to extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in semiconductor manufacturing, which has...

This $499,999 Project Grant was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, to Fuceltech Inc. dba Princeton Innotech. The purpose of this award under ARPA-E's SPARKS program (DE-FOA-0003164) is to develop the next generation of high-power diode pump lasers to increase pulse energy density for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Specifically, the goal...

This $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a groundbreaking architecture for thermal imaging lenses that are smaller, lighter, less expensive, and utilize abundant semiconductor materials like silicon. The primary research objectives are to determine if the proposed Zernike double metalens Cooke triplet design can...

OAM Photonics LLC will develop a high-performance, compact, and lightweight 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor under a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The LIDAR sensor aims to enable more affordable drone-based, high-precision mapping applications by leveraging coherent LIDAR detection and silicon photonics technology in an innovative design. The compact form factor sensor...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $305,000.00 to Leap Photonics Inc., a minority-owned small business located in Seattle, WA, to develop an acousto-optic beam steering (AOBS) technology for LIDAR systems. The project aims to create a compact, solid-state, and cost-effective beam steering mechanism to improve the performance and accessibility of LIDAR for applications in autonomous vehicles,...

This $275,000 SBIR Phase I Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a wearable multimodal sensing device by Skywalk Inc., a for-profit Asian-Pacific American-owned manufacturer. The device aims to enable more intuitive interaction with augmented reality (AR) technologies by turning human hands into cursors, turning any surface into a touchscreen, and unlocking new...

Bridger Photonics, Inc. was awarded a $4.57 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to scale up methane leak detection and quantification technologies. Over a three year period ending in February 2024, Bridger Photonics will further develop and automate tools for job planning, data processing, management and predictive algorithm capabilities to advance their disruptive methane monitoring system. They will finalize a second...

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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a bi-directional brain-computer interface (BCI) to support advanced neuroprosthetics and devices. The goal is to restore functional independence for individuals with paralysis and motor deficits. The $295,000 award will fund the creation of a Unity-based extended reality (XR) BCI development...