This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $489,946 to the University of South Florida for research on ferrimagnetic/transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures for efficient opto-spintronic devices. The project aims to develop an integrated device that can efficiently emit or sense circularly polarized photons by combining electronics, spintronics, valleytronics, and photonics. Key technical objectives include using...
The University of South Florida was awarded a three-year, $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to study spin photocurrent in 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite multiple quantum wells from July 2021 through June 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded Florida State University a $483,006 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on quantum transport in self-assembled hybrid superlattices. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and...
This $750,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees. The funding supports fundamental and applied research on ferrimagnetic materials for fast nanoscale information processing. The research involves the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel ferrimagnetic thin film samples by the University of South Florida and Morgan State University,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $564,909 to Florida State University (FSU) to research charge-spin conversions and nonreciprocal transport in chiral materials. The project aims to explore new methods for generating, controlling, and detecting polarized spins in semiconductors by exploiting electron motion in chiral structures. Key focus areas include elucidating the physics behind the chirality-induced...
The University of South Florida received a $179,979 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program under CFDA #47.070 and will fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: SMALL: IMPERIAL: IN-MEMORY PROCESSING ENHANCED RACETRACK INSPIRED BY ACCESSING LATERALLY" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant supports...
The University of South Florida was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant period runs from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award supports research into applications of Galois theory to the search for non-linear functions under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through investigator-initiated...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of South Florida located in Tampa, FL. The three-year grant, effective August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026, funds research to advance the fundamental understanding of quantum friction and time-dependent processes stemming from quantum vacuum fluctuations. The project focuses on developing a unified kinetic theory that accounts for factors...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $479,016 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Florida State University (FSU) to conduct research on understanding and controlling the molecular-level structure of metal ion-linked multilayer materials for applications in solar cells, catalysis, and other devices. The goal is to use techniques like polarized spectroscopy and vibrational analysis to elucidate the relationship between the structure of...
This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds a comprehensive theoretical investigation of magnon devices built upon two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials. The primary objective is to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the generation, propagation, and detection of magnon currents within realistic 2D structures, with the goal of identifying material parameters capable of generating magnon currents comparable to or...