Project Grant 2014933

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $467,128 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop mid-infrared retinomorphic sensor devices and demonstrate in-sensor image convolution processing. The goal is to create a new paradigm for visual information processing that is more energy-efficient and faster than current high-frame rate camera technologies. The research will investigate field-effect gated...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Pirvision Lens LLC supports research and development activities for their proprietary "ActiveLens" technology. The goal is to enhance passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors by enabling improved stationary occupancy detection, human signal differentiation, occupancy counting, and activity identification capabilities. The project will develop...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a cost-effective, high-resolution organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based infrared sensor prototype. The $125,000 award to Oklahoma State University will fund the creation of an innovative OLED-based infrared sensor that uses colloidal quantum dots and OLED up-conversion technology to convert short-wave infrared (SWIR) images to...

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 $275,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant, awarded to Corlens Inc. on January 1, 2025, supports the development of a groundbreaking flat optic lens architecture for thermal imaging applications. The primary research objectives are to determine if the proposed "Zernike Double Metalens Cooke Triplet" design can simultaneously eliminate image noise and chromatic aberration, enabling high-quality imaging with...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 provides funding to Coherent Photonics, LLC to develop innovative metasurface optical waveguiding devices (MOWGs). These novel optical devices are intended to overcome the limitations of traditional optical systems by controlling light on a sub-wavelength scale, enabling more compact, lightweight, scalable, and cost-effective solutions compared to conventional optical...

This $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is for a research project at the University of California, Irvine to develop a silicon-based detector optimized for mid-infrared (MIR) imaging applications. The project aims to significantly enhance the detection sensitivity and speed of silicon-based cameras for MIR radiation through the use of metasurface-enhanced non-degenerate two-photon absorption. The advanced MIR imaging...

This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant, awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a lightweight, learning-based image signal processing (ISP) algorithm for photon-limited imaging. The $274,702 award to Deeplux Technology, Inc. will fund the optimization and implementation of the "Small and Learnable ISP Module" (SLIM) on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Key...

This $150,280 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of new plasmonic nanodevices for mid-infrared photodetection at Wayne State University from September 2022 through August 2025. Specifically, the university researchers will work to establish multiphoton-assisted tunneling in metal-insulator-metal structures as a new mechanism for mid-infrared detection. They will model, characterize and study the optical...