Project Grant 1843101

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $384,878 project grant to the University of Chicago to support research exploring mid-infrared colloidal quantum dot light emitting diodes. The objectives of the research are to synthesize novel bright mid-infrared semiconductor quantum dots and incorporate them into mid-infrared LEDs. If successful, a combination of inorganic quantum dot LEDs and detectors made through solution processing and...

Bluedot Photonics, Inc. was awarded a $255,927 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on February 15, 2021 to support work under the SBIR PHASE I: QUANTUM CUTTING DOWNCONVERSION LAYERS FOR IMPROVED SOLAR PV PERFORMANCE award. The award is being carried out in Seattle, WA through May 31, 2022. Under this NSF SBIR Phase I award, issued through the Engineering (47.041) program, Bluedot Photonics is developing quantum cutting downconversion layers to improve the performance of solar...

Iris Light Technologies Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on December 1, 2021 to support research and development efforts concluding on November 30, 2022. Funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), the award aims to advance electro-luminescence and doping of black phosphorus for printed lasers on silicon photonic chips. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and...

This Project Grant award of $406,832.00 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) aims to develop novel boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) based photo-uncaging groups. The research will focus on creating efficient red-to-near-infrared (red-to-NIR) light-responsive materials that can enable low-power LED-driven photo-uncaging for applications such as...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports the development of Illuminate Therapeutics' Light Activated Drug Delivery and Release (LADDR) platform technology. The $275,000 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, aims to de-risk two key challenges in commercializing the LADDR technology: 1) predicting responsive and non-responsive tumors for...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business in Chicago, Illinois, will support the development of foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic inks. The key technical objectives are to integrate photonic inks emitting at 1450 nm directly onto a foundry chip, demonstrating critical...

This Project Grant award for $134,955 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program supports research by Yale University to understand the electronic transport and dynamics of quantum-dot-doped semiconductor solids for infrared optoelectronics applications. The research team aims to develop a novel hybrid system that integrates quantum dots into high-mobility crystalline semiconductor matrices to take advantage of their...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Icarus Quantum Inc. a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to develop efficient and noise-free excitation quantum dots (QDs) for on-demand quantum light generation. The project aims to enhance the collection efficiency of QD systems by eliminating the need for precise polarization or frequency filtering, enabling the creation of compact, turnkey,...

This $390,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel biophotonic computing devices through the Engineering Directorate's 47.041 Engineering program. Specifically, the principal investigator aims to create a flexible, sustainable platform for bio-photonic thin film transistors using cellulose-nanocrystals with chiral nematic organization and responsive photonic behavior. Over the two-year period from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2025, the grantee,...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $550,000 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry on June 1, 2024, supports research by Professor Dmitri Talapin of the University of Chicago on the development of affordable III-V semiconductor quantum dots. The goal is to create more cost-effective materials for high-performance solar cells, LEDs, and lasers, which currently rely on expensive III-V semiconductor manufacturing processes. The research program seeks...