Project Grant 2014678

This $926,538 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation will support the development of long-stroke micromachined arrayed cell electrostatic actuators for highly integrated micro-positioning applications by Silicon Dynamix, Inc. The award reflects the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, which seeks to advance science, engineering, and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies and solutions to national challenges. Specifically, the project will utilize...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Cooperative Agreement award of $1,184,000 to Sangtera Inc. in Lexington, MA aims to develop a small form-factor precision stage to enable high-volume manufacturing of next-generation high-performance computing devices utilizing 3D stacked chiplets. The project focuses on designing, fabricating, and characterizing a prototype precision stage that can achieve 100 nm positioning precision and 1 mm motion...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award of $305,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is advancing semiconductor processing technology. The project aims to develop a novel power generator and applicator system that uses nanosecond-scale high voltage pulses to enhance the quality, reduce processing steps, and lower costs of depositing super-thin coatings for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The technology,...

This STTR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The $275,000 award, with a performance period from February 15, 2025 to October 31, 2025, will enable the scalable production of integrated Ti:Sapphire lasers and amplifiers in the wavelength range...

This STTR Phase I grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program supports the development of a compact, multi-wavelength interferometric system for real-time, in-situ metrology in high-precision optical manufacturing. The $274,524 project aims to deliver a market-ready, on-machine metrology system that can improve efficiency and accuracy in diamond tool alignment, surface metrology, and overall manufacturing throughput by...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. provides $274,997 to address critical technical challenges in scaling up barium titanate on silicon technology for photonic integrated circuits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year project include: Developing a process to mitigate the thermal stress that arises from integrating barium titanate, an optical material, with silicon...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to develop 2D auxetic lattice actuators that transfer functional shape memory deformations from shape memory alloy (SMA) backbones to surrounding elastomers. The $222,890 project, awarded to the University of Southern Maine, will leverage laser micromachining to create innovative SMA geometries that enable 2D actuation for soft robotics applications. The effort will utilize...

Soctera, Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to scale aluminum nitride/gallium nitride/aluminum nitride (AlN/GaN/AlN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) using molecular beam epitaxy. The award period was from August 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022. Under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and...

This $274,786 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of a cutting-edge scanning magnetometer microscope by Femtosenselabs, LLC. This new microscope technology will enable high-resolution imaging of novel magnetic materials with unprecedented sensitivity at the nanoscale, supporting the advancement of spintronics and the development of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) grant award to Northeastern University for $275,000 supports the development of tunable high-speed MEMS scanners for real-time in vivo imaging and 3D depth sensing applications. The project aims to merge electrostatic levitation and ferroelectric polarization switching to create MEMS mirrors with large ranges of motion and tunable scan speeds, overcoming limitations of traditional MEMS actuators. The new microscanner technology...