Project Grant 1935362

This $359,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of scalable three-terminal memory devices based on silicon-compatible antiferromagnetic materials at Northwestern University from June 2022 through May 2025. The university aims to design, fabricate, and characterize nonvolatile memory devices utilizing conductive antiferromagnetic materials like Mn3Sn, Mn3Ga, and IrMn3 that can be sputter deposited on silicon substrates. The project will demonstrate electrical read...

This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize computer memory by developing new materials and devices for high-density, energy-efficient magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). The research project will address limitations of conventional spin-orbit torque switching in MRAM devices by growing wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to revolutionize computer memory by developing new materials and devices for high-density magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). The $360,000 award will support collaborative research to enable highly efficient switching in MRAM devices using wafer-scale epitaxial van der Waals spin heterostructures. The project focuses on growing advanced...

This $279,854 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research at The Ohio State University to develop new spintronic material platforms for energy-efficient memory and computing applications. The investigators will focus on heterostructures consisting of ultrathin ferrimagnetic insulator films and adjacent metallic layers. They will grow and characterize high-quality bilayer films to optimize properties for applications by...

Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $344,942 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research on non-volatile magnetic memory devices utilizing field-free spin-orbit torque switching of perpendicularly polarized magnets. The research aims to demonstrate field-free deterministic magnetization switching of three classes of ferromagnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy using electric field-induced out-of-plane spin...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...

This $389,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to achieve an in-depth understanding of the ultrafast dynamics and devices based on new classes of antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials. The goal is to overcome speed and energy efficiency limitations in current technologies and enable next-generation ultrafast (>100 GHz) antiferromagnetic spintronic applications. The research involves investigating the unique...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $1,600,000 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) to develop a new type of combinatorial memory and logic devices utilizing magnetic spin waves. The goal is to create magnonic combinatorial memory and logic devices on a silicon platform that can achieve significantly higher data storage density and processing throughput compared to...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Dallas to design and experimentally demonstrate computing systems with extreme energy efficiency. Specifically, the project aims to leverage magnetic skyrmions, which are magnetic quasiparticles, to develop reversible and reservoir computing systems that can significantly reduce the environmental and economic costs of computer energy consumption....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $385,000 Project Grant to Northwestern University to develop cross-layer techniques from device to circuit and architecture for the large-scale integration of ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET) with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This research aims to enable emerging computing applications, such as AI, robotics, augmented/virtual reality, and autonomous...